11.   Continental Airlines offers nonstop flights between Houston and Merida, and AeroMexico offers connections via Mexico City.

12.   Digital PCS phones are smaller than earlier cellular phones and offer clearer connections, better paging capability and longer battery life.

13.   DSL also offers a connection that is always on, so users can avoid the sometimes uncertain nuisance of dialing up a link.

14.   FedEx Corp., a UPS rival, offers wireless connections to its information system through some portable computers.

15.   Horizon, a member of the Alaska Air Group, offers connections to Seattle, Bellingham, Wash., and Portland, Ore., from British Columbia.

16.   If your current bank offers a direct connection to your personal finance program, you can pay bills electronically through that bank.

17.   In Scandinavia, the airlines will offer connections to Copenhagen, Oslo, Gothenburg, Sweden, and Bergen, Norway.

18.   More jets have laptop plug-ins, and Delta soon will offer wireless connections at gate areas and in Crown Room lounges.

19.   Most of these web sites offer connections to other weird locales.

20.   NetStandard is equipped with a backup generator and offers redundant connections to the Internet.