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...Japanese call it ``maruchimedia'' -- multimedia -- and they plan to connect it to nearly every Japanese home by the year 2010. Their carrier: a nationwide supersophisticated fiber-optic system being encouraged by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. In Hong Kong 600 of the city's skyscrapers are already wired with fiber optics and rate as ``intelligent buildings.'' The colony's 6 million residents are so interconnected that the better restaurants forbid patrons to talk on their cellular telephones while eating...
France is usually cited as the glowing exception to the restrictive European pattern. In the early 1980s, the French government launched Minitel -- a small-screen unit with a keyboard that plugs into a normal telephone wall outlet to connect users with a wide variety of information services. Minitel is now a familiar object in many French homes, partly because of its reputation -- deserved -- as a commercial conduit for suppliers of both hard and soft porn. Despite that sleaze factor, Minitel set the standard during the 1980s as the world's first truly practical and inexpensive provider of interactive services...
...cannot say enough positive things about the program," says Elsie Murphy, a sixth grade teacher at the Fitzgerald School. "The volunteers truly connect with the children...
Another debater, attempting to connect language and culture in an interesting way, argued that cultures are defined entirely by the language that members of the culture utilize...
...when it became necessary to connect Widener to the Houghton-Pusey-Lamont complex, the University kept its promise to Mrs. Widener and took out a window--moving neither brick nor stone nor mortar--to build a bridge between Widener and Houghton...