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Wentzell says the athletic department is trying to do all it can for the club team, but is constrained by “through the roof” demand for space. He said that the team should be content with less than the best...

Author: By William M. Rasmussen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Club Tennis Struggles For Time | 3/5/2002 | See Source »

...because digitized films used to take hours, even days, to download and even then were too murky and jerky to watch. But due to advances in data compression technology, and the spread of faster broadband connections, video distribution over the Internet is becoming more practical. Now, digitized recordings of content ranging from 30-minute TV sitcoms to two-hour Academy Award winning films are flying around in cyberspace, aided by free file-sharing programs like Morpheus, Grokster, and Kazaa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood in the Net | 3/4/2002 | See Source »

...production facilities and broadcasters such as TV stations or cable-TV networks, which take the biggest chunk of advertising spending in China. While Tom.com produces a daily sports program that is aired on China's national TV station CCTV, the company offers little else in the realm of video content...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Uncle Tom's China | 3/4/2002 | See Source »

...creation. Before the 1990s, Europe's airwaves were ruled mainly by public terrestrial television stations, which paid, by today's standards, mere pocket money for the rights to screen football and other sports. But with the advent of private and pay-TV networks came the search for content that would not only attract viewers, but also build the kind of loyal subscriber bases and demographics that advertisers love. The answer? Sport, once famously described by Murdoch as pay-TV's "battering ram." Broadcasters piled in, sparking a bidding war for sporting content that drove the price of rights for many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Has the Sports Bubble Burst? | 3/4/2002 | See Source »

While Leonard praises MIT’s recent efforts to make course materials available online, he points out that true distance learning requires a teacher to serve as a facilitator between students and course content...

Author: By Catherine E. Shoichet, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Ponders Distance Learning | 3/4/2002 | See Source »

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