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...connections to rural areas. Ultimately, the network will be capable of data-transmission speeds of up to one gigabit per second, says John Lindsay, carrier relations manager at Internode, an Internet service provider that delivers broadband to Fernbrooke and across Australia. "The network will evolve over a 40-year period," he says. "Fiber is a pretty future-proof technology...
...programs currently being created by the national government will be failures if Phelps and his colleagues are right. Or, better said, the programs will only build jobs for a short period. The rise in employment because of federal intervention will disappear when the government can no longer afford to pay for the buttressing or the electorate turns against the deficit that the spending programs build. The Administration's plan, which has been so heatedly debated, to save 3 million to 3.5 million jobs, will only be an elaborate trestle with its base set on limestone...
...district’s new superintendent on April 7, his formal selection was contingent upon the establishment of a contract that would satisfy both Young and the school committee. Young is scheduled to begin his term on July 6, 2009, but will begin a five-day transition period before that date, during which he will be taking vacation time from his post at Newton. According to the contract, Young will be paid an annual beginning salary $215,000, an amount which will increase after each subsequent year of service. After one year, his salary will be raised...
During the question-and-answer period of the Faculty meeting, classics professor Richard F. Thomas questioned Smith’s optimistic casting of the situation and expressed concern that restructuring could result in harmful cutting...
Bonilla finally left hospital after five days - a period after which he was unlikely to be still contagious. However, he was told to remain in his apartment for another eight days, while his grandchildren stayed with relatives. No other family members have developed symptoms, reflecting a relatively low infection-rate of the virus. Bonilla is still visibly shaken by his brush with swine flu and concerned about the disease spreading around the planet. But he says that it has taught him one positive thing: to appreciate what he has. "I know that I am lucky to be here getting...