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...years, routing high-quality video over phone lines was the impossible dream: telecom operators could not feed the copper wires that run into offices and homes fast enough. But the dream has finally come true, thanks to a series of technical advances, most notably a piece of networking gear called a Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer (DSLAM, pronounced dee slam). This refrigerator-sized box deftly flips video data from the speedy fiber-optic networks that form the backbone of the phone system to the "final mile" of copper wires. DSLAMs have been around since 1997, but until two years...
...Harvard men’s soccer team struggled to kick its season into gear, dropping two of three on a Southern swing to start the season...
What kind of work path do most returning mothers take? QUIGLEY: It's a progression. You go back, and you may cut back at some point, if a parent becomes ill or whatever. Then you gear up when your kids go off to college. So there is a lot of zigging and zagging. It's just not a straight line, as it is with...
...route of the day before, moving to the southern border of the city. When we reached the place where we had been scared off by the firefight, we heard the sounds of sustained gunfire and explosions. Talib explained that we would have to walk from there. We gathered our gear and entered into the city. At each corner we asked locals for a way to the medina that would keep us at maximum distance from U.S. forces. We quickly found a place where civilians were crossing the American lines. Small groups of women, old men and children were walking through...
...conceded a single goal. Although China's field-hockey program for women was founded in 1980, the program languished for years, relying on uninspired castoffs from local basketball and soccer teams. That changed dramatically in 2001, when Beijing was awarded the 2008 Games and funding kicked into high gear. "When I was an athlete, we had to train on grasslands," says Miao Lin, a hockey referee in Guangdong province. "Now, we've got more money and the training facilities have improved." Earlier this year, China assembled its first-ever national junior team, so a promising hockey crew will be ready...