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...mobile-phone operators rushing to embrace ArrayComm's technology? Not exactly. Many Western mobile operators, such as Vodafone and T-Mobile, have invested billions of dollars and euros - over $100 billion alone just to buy government licenses - in 3G phone systems that use conventional arc designs. As operators struggle to make those four-year-old investments pay off, they're not about to switch to ArrayComm. Although ArrayComm was able to license its technology to Chinese and Japanese operators that deploy a more compatible mobile-phone system, Western operators have declined. So ArrayComm is selling to wireless Internet providers like...
...Huckabees script: therapy would be unbecoming for a corporate executive, so Brad rationalizes his sessions with “existential therapists” by insisting they are “pro-active and action-oriented.” While all of the characters in Huckabees seem primed to arc from ironic distance to grand, tragic catharsis, Jude Law alone provides the emotional proximity the film coaxes you into longing for and then so cruelly denies...
Cameron ruled the second half for USC. She finished the game with a team-high 18 points, shooting 7-10 from the floor and 4-6 from beyond the arc. Three of her three-pointers came in the second half, stretching the Harvard defense and opening up the lane for the frontcourt...
Senior guard Katie Murphy sparked the defensive effort, with four of her six steals coming down the stretch. Harvard held the Spartans to a 28.6 percent field goal percentage in the second half—including a meager 1-of-8 from beyond the arc...
...that the very thing the judges were supposed to love? Instead, Kevin Boyle, an associate professor of history at Ohio State University, turned out to be this year's winner. Although no one in his book wears a powdered wig, Boyle has an irresistible story to tell in Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age (Holt; 415 pages). And tell it he does, sometimes with a novelistic richness, always with a sure feel for tangled motivations and hidden agendas...