For example, in Montclair, new nonstop rail service to New York City begins operation in January.
The state program's 2.4 million subscribers will now be included in the National Do Not Call Registry when it begins operation in October.
Experiments like this will be on the agenda when the Large Hadron Collider begins operation in five or six years at the CERN accelerator center in Geneva.
The Army has invited local residents to tour the 19-acre incinerator before it begins operation in April, hoping to impress them with the plant's thick concrete walls and massive airlock doors, remote-control conveyer lines and elaborate mazes of filtered ductwork.
When it begins operation in 2010 the Dalian operation (called Fab 68 in Intel parlance) will be Intel's eighth 300-millimeter fab.
When it begins operation in 2024 at Las Campanas in northern Chile, it will join two other giant telescopes that are also just beginning construction: the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) in Hawaii and the 39-meter European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) at Cerro Armazones in Chile.
