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Additionally, as long as the Core Curriculum remains intact, students should be able to receive Foreign Cultures credit for most courses taken out of residence. Although the courses themselves may not follow the strict Core guidelines or format, culture courses taken abroad can grant insights and opportunities for more in-depth learning that classrooms in Cambridge are unable to provide...
...first billion on the Internet in the '90s, Cuban is now betting on high-definition television, which uses digital technology to produce a picture four times as sharp as that of its nearest competitor. Last September, eager to broadcast Mavericks games in the high-definition format and frustrated by the industry's slow conversion to digital, Cuban launched HDNet --the first national TV network to offer all its programming in high def. On the air 16 hours a day via DirecTV satellite, HDNet offers mostly sports, including the recent NCAA Final Four, Major League Baseball and National Hockey League games...
HDTV has been around, at least in concept, since the '60s, and everyone who has seen it agrees that it's a joy to watch. You can literally see each bead of sweat rolling off a player onscreen. The format's adoption, however, has been slowed by a broadcasting industry that has billions of dollars invested in the old ways of doing TV. Now comes Cuban, who has a proven eye for the next hot technology. He knows when to invest and--rarest of gifts--when to sell. After creating Broadcast.com to transmit radio programs over the Internet, Cuban sold...
...Kong consumers seemed to prefer familiar neighborhood chain stores. Carrefour lost $400 million between 1996 and 2000 on four Hong Kong outlets. "It all ended in tears, really," says Alan Treadgold, director of retail research for ad agency Leo Burnett Worldwide in Sydney. "They just couldn't make the format work...
...format for competition in the Admiral’s Cup was different than normal races, and featured three divisions instead of the usual two. The A and B division were, similiar to those at the University of Rhode Island (URI) and Brown, double-handed boats, while the C divison featured single-handed sailing of a laser (a one-person boat...