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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chicago area is the unofficial capital of Polonia. Many of the janitors and cleaning women who vacuum and scrub the city's high-rises and the clerks who sell kielbasa and clothing in the shops along Milwaukee Avenue speak little or no English. News about the old country is broadcast in Polish on radio and television and headlined by the daily Zgoda (circ. 15,000) and at least a dozen thriving Polish-language weeklies. The reaction of leading commentators in recent months has sometimes bordered on euphoria. "Events in Poland have infected the rest of Eastern Europe," exclaims George Migala...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Polonia with Love | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...learned every position so as to improve his chances of seeing action. He also studied the playbook, such as it was, and occasionally tugged at his uncle's sleeve. "He would try to tell me what play I should call." Sister Mary Roberts, the principal at St. Al's, broadcast Notre Dame's victory march over the loudspeaker each afternoon as school adjourned, perhaps because she belonged to the Order of Notre Dame. No wonder Holtz subsequently told his family that he would some day coach the Fighting Irish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fella Expects To Win: Notre Dame coach LOU HOLTZ | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...humiliation befell NBC's network news operation after last month's California earthquake. KRON, the NBC affiliate in San Francisco, tried to transmit its footage of the disaster to NBC via satellite. But for more than an hour after the tremor, a glitch-prone NBC network was unable to broadcast any live reports. Meanwhile, CNN, which had access to the same satellite signal, was airing KRON's vivid images of the destruction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV News: The Sky's the Limit | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...Something like this had to happen sooner or later," Peters said "Broadcast is an interactive medium and it's easy to identify the person...

Author: By Philip M. Rubin, | Title: WHRB Pulls Program Off Air | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

Medical applications are also being rapidly developed. Researchers at Maryland's Johns Hopkins have made a pill slightly larger than a daily vitamin supplement that has a silicon thermometer and the electronics necessary to broadcast instant temperature readings to a recording device. By having a patient swallow the pill, doctors can pinpoint worrisome hot spots anywhere within the digestive tract. Future "smart pills" may transmit information about heart rates, stomach acidity or neural functions. Says Russell Eberhart, program manager at Johns Hopkins' Applied Physics Laboratory: "This could change the way we diagnose and monitor patients...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: The Incredible Shrinking Machine | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

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