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...they got on the computer," she says. "So I asked my son, 'Do you think I could learn all this?' He said, 'Mother, you could do it.' And I said, 'O.K., go buy me a set.'" Four weeks and $2,500 later, she had her "set": an olive-green Acer computer that sits right next to her bed in her Chevy Chase, Md., home. At first it scared her. "I used to think the computer would break if I did something wrong. The first time I used it, I was a nervous wreck, and my son Paul said...
...still can't afford a high-speed ISDN line, the old modulator-demodulator still has a few tricks up its sleeve. Acer's Wireless PC Connection ($200) uses 900-MHz spread-spectrum technology to permit notebook users to stray up to 500 ft. from their phone jacks for backyard or poolside computing. Meanwhile, SuperSonic II ($200) from Diamond Multimedia yokes two modems (and two phone lines) together to bring the effective bandwidth up to 112 kbps (kilobits per sec.). If someone calls while you're online, the system just cuts the speed in half until you hang up the phone...
...past decade, out of the nearly 200,000 people who have developed AIDS in the U.S., only five are known to have been infected by a health-care worker. And epidemiologists quickly point out that all five cases can be traced to the same Florida dentist, David Acer. But the fact remains that it did happen, despite the odds and with devastating results. Already one of Acer's patients, Kimberly Bergalis, is near death; her plight and her understandable fury have moved millions to feel insecure when they go for teeth cleaning or an annual physical exam. Nearly...
...toxins or the AIDS virus. That is why instruments should be sterilized in an autoclave, physicians should change gloves or wash hands between patients, and disposable swabs, syringes and other items should not be reused. Although the CDC's disease detectives are still not sure what went wrong in Acer's office, they are zeroing in on just such a breach in infection control...
Right now Williams has his eye on Ronald Reagan's Acer saccharum, a lush 25-ft. sugar maple that sits right out by the northwest drive so all the visitors can see it when it blazes red and yellow in the fall. Naturally it will perform on schedule. It was planted by an actor...