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...annual Japan electronics show, which in recent years has limped through a new-products dry spell, may have regained some of its cachet. Among new consumer products, Sony and other manufacturers viewed lines of video compact- disc players, which provide fare for viewing as well as for listening on standard-size CDs. Sanyo Electric's eye catcher was 3-D television, which does not require users to wear polarized glasses -- and initially will cost at lest $57,000 a set. Both products will be avaiilable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Digest October 3-9 | 10/18/1993 | See Source »

...Most students would like to see WHRB tocontinue to exist in the future and the only wayto do that is to seriously change our programs,"he says.CrimsonJamie W. BillettHOLLAND returns a compact disc to WHRB'sClassical Music Mausoleum...

Author: By Nan Zheng, | Title: WHRB Changes Program; Some Staffers Angered | 10/12/1993 | See Source »

...third roommate slept through all of this. The week before, however, she had stayed up while I dubbed her compact discs onto tapes. "I don't know why you don't get a CD player," she said...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, | Title: Something Old, Nothing New | 10/7/1993 | See Source »

BOSTON--From Haagen-Daz handouts to free compact discs, Boston-area students were treated to an array of promotional gimmicks at the annual College Fest held this weekend at the Hynes Convention Center...

Author: By Serena K. Mayeri, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: College Fest Held in Boston | 10/4/1993 | See Source »

...about the identity of dark matter. The candidates have included various kinds of subatomic particles, many of which aren't even known to exist; black holes; and even long, thin strings of pure energy left over from the Big Bang. Large planets or dim stars -- known as MACHOs (massive compact halo objects) -- are by far the most mundane of the solutions to the puzzle. They're also the least popular: theorists think there should be just enough dark matter to stop the universe's expansion without reversing it, and MACHOs can't be numerous enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Twinkles in the Dark | 10/4/1993 | See Source »

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