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...programs for young mothers usually cut off at age 18, and most kids in foster care get kicked out at 18 with virtually no safety net. "Age limits are like the time limits for welfare recipients," says Frank Furstenberg, a sociologist who heads a research consortium called the MacArthur Network on Transitions to Adulthood. "They're pushing people off the rolls, but they're not necessarily able to transition into supportive services or connections to other systems." And programs for the poor aren't the only ones that need to grow up with the times. Only 54% of respondents...
...Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing, had big plans in 2000 when, during the height of dotcom mania, he used the inflated stock of his Internet start-up to buy Hong Kong's dominant phone company, Hong Kong Telecom. Li's grand vision was to use the telco's network as a springboard to launch an interactive entertainment service called Network of the World (NOW), aimed at delivering TV-style content over the Internet to global subscribers. But NOW flopped when the Internet bubble popped, and a chastened Li was left with little more than a debt-ridden, old-school...
...Indeed, this is the first time in Asia that a telephone company has used its broadband network to successfully invade turf traditionally occupied by cable- and satellite-TV providers. Although phone companies around the world have flirted since the mid-'90s with delivering TV signals to people's homes, only a handful of systems have gone into commercial operation because of the high costs of upgrading networks to carry data-intensive video. In the past few years, however, pay TV has become more alluring. According to Media Partners Asia, the industry in Asia is expected to grow by more than...
...lack. For one thing, Hong Kong is one of the world's most densely populated cities, so it's relatively inexpensive to reach everyone with high-speed connections. Besides, PCCW?which won't say if its TV service is profitable?did not have to spend heavily to upgrade its network for two-way TV. That's because NOW Broadband runs over an Internet and interactive TV infrastructure mostly built by Hong Kong Telecom in the 1990s. PCCW also benefited from outbidding I Cable for the exclusive rights to the popular ESPN and Star Sports channels. PCCW's Berriman acknowledges that...
...last week moved Alias, a cult favorite whose ratings never matched the fame of its star Jennifer Garner, into the hour afterward; it won the time period with its biggest prime-time audience ever. It is only fitting that Abrams should get, essentially, his own night on the network, because he has practically invented his own genre: intelligent confections that combine preposterous adventures with emotional impact, well-rounded characters and crisp, funny writing. Call it unreality...