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...win.Now the Crimson must gear up for the EARC Sprints May 10 in Worcester, Mass, one of its biggest races of the season.“To have the results we did today was pretty encouraging,” Schreck said. “We know there is some speed to pick up, and there is also some momentum to carry us into Sprints, which is a race we put a lot of attention on throughout the year.”“We’re not ranked first going into Eastern Sprints,” Gawlik added...
...TIME's top 10 films of 2008: Iron Man, Speed Racer and the rest
...coaxed 850,000 customers away from Bell Canada since launching its cable phone service four years ago. That figure is expected to top 1 million in 2009, driven in part by Videotron's ability to attract subscribers to a discounted triple-play bundle that combines voice, cable and high-speed Internet. "We're prepared to fight for new business," says Robert Depatie, president and CEO of Videotron, a division of multinational media company Quebecor Inc. Videotron plans to roll out a wireless network covering Quebec and parts of Ontario...
...world where the distinction between cablecos and telcos has become meaningless, cable operators have an advantage because it's cheaper and easier to retrofit their networks to support voice than to retrofit telephone networks for video and high-speed Internet. The sharp decline Bell Canada has sustained in its core fixed-line business is mirrored in telcos around the world. In the U.S., cable companies added 4.9 million voice subscribers in 2008, bringing their total to 20 million. By contrast, AT&T, Verizon and Qwest lost 10.9 million voice customers last year...
...situation much worse. All at once, chickens, ducks and pigs - which never had much to do with one another - began living cheek to jowl in high numbers and often unsanitary conditions. Farm families and people working in live markets then began mingling with the critters. That's a pathogenic speed blender, and the viruses have taken full advantage of it. "It's really an ecological issue," says Daszak...