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One important trend in the 1990s has been an increase in the number of students who volunteer time for community service, such as tutoring disadvantaged pupils or visiting in retirement homes.
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While the private sector assumes responsibility for capital costs and the risks involved such as cost and time overruns in construction or failure to deliver an agreed level of service, the local authority in return commits to regular payments.
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The BBC's podcasting trial includes 20 radio programmes, such as the World Service's technology show Go Digital and Radio 4's In Our Time.
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Good move as I see that such a simple service that can be completed in such a short period of time is ideal for mobile.
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But it may also spark renewed price competition between broadband service providers, such as phone companies like Verizon Communications pushing digital subscriber line service, and cable companies like Comcast and Time Warner offering cable modem service.
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Those on the front lines of networking, such as the telcos, Internet service providers, competitive local exchange companies and wireless operators, still prefer time-tested Unix as the operating system for networks. (Prediction: Cisco and Lucent may become the biggest threats to Microsoft over the next five years.) n Thanks to the Internet, small niche companies can reach mass markets in a heartbeat.
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They believe the service could be used not just for burritos, but for some bigger business applications such as delivering time-sensitive business documents.
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For the Wiltshire trial Mr Paxton had offered his time and helicopter for three days per week to assist the fire service with major incidents such as flooding.
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Internet service providers having to store for a year all details of online communication in the UK - such as the time, duration, originator and recipient of a communication and the location of the device from which it was made.
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