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...sort of competition in the mobile world that enabled the high-speed access offered by better Internet Service Providers to topple AOL's old stranglehold on its customers. The carriers argue that they have continued to innovate: "Over the last five years," says Verizon Wireless spokeswoman Brenda Raney, "wireless phones have gone from simple calling devices to multifaceted device entertainment and productivity tools, because of broadband-like technology." But American carriers have a long way to go. Phone service in the U.S. remains several steps behind Europe and Asia...
...Republicans last election; and lobbyists for Peabody Energy, the biggest digger in the country, whose chairman gave the Republican Party more than $250,000 last year. Money to burn, perhaps. "We were told coal is an important part of the Administration's energy strategy," says Bill Raney, president of the West Virginia Coal Association, who came to Washington with scores of other carbon enthusiasts...
CHARGED. RICHARD ASHBY, 31; JOSEPH SCHWEITZER, 30; WILLIAM RANEY II, 26; and CHANDLER SEAGRAVES, 28, the Marine captains whose jet severed a gondola cable in Italy, killing 20 people; with negligent homicide and involuntary manslaughter; in Norfolk...
State representative Bob Raney plans to introduce a bill in the Montana legislature that would suspend bison-hunting licenses until a joint state- federal study on the problem is completed. "My problem at this point," says Raney, "is that we're killing off American bison without knowing if there is an alternative to killing them. I know what we've done up to this point is not proper." Especially considering that the victims are direct descendants of the 20 bison that originally sought refuge in the park and thereby survived the 19th century slaughter that all but eliminated the species...
...have been invaded," says state Representative Bob Raney. "We're occupied by an armed force of people with an intense allegiance to one person." That person is Prophet, also known as Guru Ma, who claims as many as 30,000 followers around the world. Lately she has been telling them that the apparent warming of U.S.-Soviet relations is a Kremlin ruse designed to get Americans to lower their guard. She warns that the world is entering a "dangerous period" in March and April. Or, as her astrologer and spokesman Murray Steinman puts it, "We're at a general trend...