Word: channelized
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...local fattening facility. Before the first symptoms appeared to warn of the danger, the virus was spreading to farms all across the country as animals were shipped to slaughterhouses hundreds of miles away. Within a few weeks it turned up in Northern Ireland and jumped the English Channel to a farm in western France. But even before French veterinarians confirmed cases in six cows last week, authorities from Germany to Portugal were ordering the slaughter of tens of thousands of animals that might have been exposed. Across Europe, traffic backed up for inspection and disinfection at border posts left idle...
...viewer is becoming part of the program," says Kai Hübers, channel manager for Europe Online and co-developer of Now or Never, which will appear as streaming video on the Internet this month. By autumn, people will be able to participate in the show on either a PC or a television; the web content and the television programming will be fused...
...part of the USDA's effort to keep the U.S. free of a decidedly unwelcome international visitor: foot-and-mouth disease. Last month the explosively infectious livestock illness began breaking out on farms around Britain. Last week more cases traced to the British infection turned up across the Channel in France. When that happened, the already beleaguered European meat market took another hit: the USDA banned the importation of meat and meat products from the 15-nation European Union (E.U.). Other countries, including Australia and Canada, soon did the same. The U.S. and Canadian bans alone could cost Europe...
...data about the world expands, a child's developing mental machinery orders and arranges the incoming deluge into a model of the world that will serve as a foundation for the rest of their understanding. At such a crucial juncture, it seems that the opportunities for education to channel and augment this development are infinite...
...find out, I spent last week on a kind of technological Temptation Island, quietly playing with Ultimate TV on the bedroom set while TiVo sat in the living room, blissfully unaware of my cheating. And I'm somewhat relieved to report that for all its dual-channel flashiness, Ultimate TV ultimately failed to sway me from my first love...