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...likely to remain free, providers of premium audio and video say they'll put their programming on the Net only when they see the money. "People are prepared to pay for multichannel TV, now we have to change their expectations for what they see over broadband Internet," says Jonathan Crane, director of commercial broadband services for BBC Worldwide. "And RealOne is certainly helping to do that." RealNetworks' RealOne service already has some 600,000 U.S. customers, who pay $9.95 a month for exclusive streaming audio and video from the likes of ABC News, CNN, Fox Sports and NASCAR. The European...
...crane operator lifts a 30-ft. concrete partition and slots it into a long row of identical slabs. Like the other Israelis laboring along this two-mile strip of wall, he wears not only a hard hat but a bulletproof vest as well. Fewer than 100 yds. away are the outskirts of Qalqilya, a Palestinian town. For the militants among Qalqilya's 25,000 people, the workers must seem an attractive target for sniping. So too will the thousands of Israelis who will pass by on this stretch of the Trans-Israel Highway, which, when it opens...
Mayor Edward A. Crane ’35 appointed Sullivan chairman of a special committee to confer with University officials on student parking. This followed a lengthy discussion of the situation in last Monday’s City Council meeting...
Work on the multi-million-dollar project involved erecting a 180-foot-tall crane with a 300-foot-long boom to lift equipment into the inner courtyard of the building. The crane was removed last year as the project wound down...
...Israelis couldn't draw out their quarry together, they could pick off the gunmen one by one. Outside the church, they set up a 300-ft.-tall crane and floated a blimp attached to a high-tension cable, mounting surveillance cameras on each. A team of intelligence officers kept track of movements in the church compound and relayed the information to snipers from the Special Police Unit, an elite squad that has the best marksmen in the Israeli services. The intelligence officers communicated with the snipers by using an aerial photo divided into tiny sectors; that made it easier...