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Phone-company technicians traced the problem to a single "failure of logic" in the computer programs that route calls through the AT&T network. Like many programming bugs, it stemmed from an improvement on the original system. By carrying information about who is calling whom on a separate channel, or band, from the call signal itself, AT&T has been able to reduce the time between dialing and ringing from as much as 20 seconds to as little as four seconds. But the refinement inadvertently made the system more prone to breakdowns. Last week's glitch spread rapidly among...
...unjudging, versatile, electronic but old-fashioned (here so long no one really fears it). The telephone, like democracy, is infinitely tolerant of stupidity; it is a virtual medium of stupidity, a four-lane highway of the greedy and false and brainless. But it is (unless tampered with) a faithful channel of words from mouth to distant ear, mind to mind, and that is, absolutely and exactly, the meaning of freedom...
Midstream may remind a few of Ludwig Lewisohn's Mid-Channel. Sixty years ago, this journalist also tired of Manhattan's temptations and asked, "How do you live from within outward? From what ultimate satisfactions do you derive your poise, your power, your courage in the face of this apparently empty universe, of age, of death?" Schreiber offers some honest answers...
...served up original movies as well, like Faye Dunaway's Cold Sassy Tree and this month's remake of Treasure Island, starring Charlton Heston as Long John Silver. By 1992 the channel plans to churn out four made-for-TV movies a month. TNT also carries N.B.A. basketball (Turner just renewed his package of 50 regular-season games for four more years at the hefty cost of $275 million), and will offer 50 hours of exclusive Winter Olympics coverage in 1992. And if TNT seems to be stealing some thunder (and some programming) from TBS SuperStation, Turner's older...
...poke. Fifteen months ago, Ronald and Mary Kalish of Arizona adopted Sir Francis Bacon (Frank, for short) as a pet, and their life has never been quite the same. After supper, when the family gathers around the TV, Frank will squeal and howl if the channel is switched from his favored westerns or cartoons. Come bedtime, there is only one place where he will sleep: on the Kalishes' king-size mattress, snuggled between Mary and Ronald. If reproved, Frank may try to urinate on the offender's foot. Yet, far from feeling hog-tied by their demanding household companion, Mary...