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...ascent into the company of Socrates and Jeremiah begins in 1967. Immediately following the Arab-Israeli war (a moment Israelis wittily call "the seventh day" of the Six-Day War), Leibovitz predicted that Israeli occupation of the newly conquered West Bank and Gaza Strip would erode the moral fiber of the Jewish state...
...much the aroma of his richly atmospheric novel. Though movie ready in its pacing and narrative vividness, it is also unusually lived in, focused and compassionate. As its title suggests, Snow Falling on Cedars is poised at precisely that point where an elliptical Japanese delicacy meets the woody, unmoving fiber of the Pacific Northwest. Out of that encounter, Guterson has fashioned something haunting and true...
...Southwestern Bell gearing up to provide two-way viewing over those systems, but next year it intends to offer telephone service over those same lines and thereby challenge local phone giant Bell Atlantic on its home ground. (Bell Atlantic is hardly snoozing; it is spending $11 billion for fiber-optic cables and other equipment to bring the information highway to 8 million homes by the year...
Even if the phone companies manage to procure enough high-quality programming, other handicaps could stall their drive toward two-way TV. Although they lead in the race to lay fiber-optic cable, much of it was originally installed to carry a high volume of phone traffic into cities and therefore does not connect to individual homes; instead, the fiber-optic trunk lines branch into twisted pairs of copper wires, which carry far less information directly to the customer. That means the companies must either replace this so-called last mile with fiber-optic cable or find...
That is at least in part why phone companies like Pacific Bell, which has already laid 350,000 miles of fiber-optic cable, are eagerly waiting to purchase a new generation of fast video "servers" that squeeze movies and other programming down to the right size and deliver them to customers virtually on demand. Hewlett-Packard and other manufacturers are scrambling to roll out such servers by next year at prices of up to $20 million...