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...text.) The peace plan hinges on the assumption that once the Palestinians are given the opportunity to build their own homeland, they will find enough satisfaction in building to give up fighting. Which explains all the clauses devoted to transportation links and development banks, canal digging and grid linking -- mundane schemes of all kinds between Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian territory that conjure up a vision of nothing less than Benelux- on-the-Jordan...
Together, AT&T and McCaw will give rivals plenty of reason to fret. They are expected to strengthen each other's hold on their respective markets. By linking its own computerized telephone grid with McCaw's advanced cellular network, AT&T is expected to develop a broad menu of customized services. It could, for instance, bundle telephone handsets, long-distance and cellular service in a single package. With AT&T, Craig McCaw moves one step closer to realizing his biggest dream: building the first nationwide cellular-telephone network...
...gunfire echoes from the poor, urban neighborhoods to the suburbs of the heartland. Omaha, with a population of 340,000, is just an average Midwestern city, which is why the story of its armed youth shows how treacherous the problem has become. The Omaha neighborhood of Benson, a tidy grid of suburban-style homes on the northwest side, has been taken by surprise. Three dozen shaken parents and troubled teenagers gathered on a rainy Tuesday night in May at the Benson Community Center, bracing for summer's onslaught and groping for solid ground in a world where cruising can include...
...backbone of AT&T's communacopia strategy is the company's 2 billion- circuit-mile telephone grid. First built in 1879, the network has been continually upgraded. In the past 10 years, AT&T has replaced most of its old- fashioned copper-cable network with advanced fiber-optic wires, which give the grid a massive carrying capacity, or bandwidth. AT&T's long-distance system handles 150 million phone calls and data transmissions a day. It has the capacity to carry at least twice as much traffic, at no greater cost...
...legendary cavern will be equipped with bleachers, lights, an overhead grid and a sound system, according to Adams House non-resident tutor Richard E. Nash '92. Nash has already produced three plays in the space without the specialized equipment...