Shortly after, small towns in Pennsylvania started bringing in television by wire, which Rigas realized would cost him box-office receipts.

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What followed lights-out at the Sleep Disorders Center was, predictably enough, not sleep. (Imagine for a moment going to bed in a fuse box.) Every time I moved, I got tangled in a wire.

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"This is for the secretary, " she told the clerk, Celeste Payot, as she handed over the box, which was neatly wrapped in a yellow plastic bag and tied with a steel wire.

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