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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Called personal communications networks, these systems operate much like cellular phones but are not intended for cars. Instead they are designed for pedestrian use and will consist of pocket phones so small they can be folded up like a wallet to the size of a pack of cigarettes. They can be smaller and less expensive than conventional cellular phones because they need to be powerful enough only to transmit to one of hundreds of receiving stations located throughout the local cable network. The user could thus bypass the local phone company, which makes the PCN system a threat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communications: A Giant Tug-of-Wire | 2/24/1992 | See Source »

Doctors who are still doing implant operations are now using saline implants, which consist of a silicone envelope containing saline solution...

Author: By Julie-ann R. Francis, | Title: Criticism, Concerns Remain After FDA's Ruling on Breast Implants | 2/19/1992 | See Source »

...identity" Choi envies in other ethnicities is a matter of passion. Black students can rally passionately for civil rights and Black pride. Jewish students can rally for the state of Israel and against anti-Semitism. Asian-Americans, on the other hand, have difficulty finding common ground because they consist of a wide variety of ethnicities, cultures and languages--unfortunately clumped together without much thought...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Choi Misrepresents Asian-Americans | 2/15/1992 | See Source »

Berlin--who received the world's first endowed Judaica library position in 1962--said the position will be called the Littauer Hebraica Technical and Research Services Librarianship, and will consist of adapting new technology to the needs of the library...

Author: By Daniel N. Halpern, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Foundation Donates $1.5 M to Library | 2/7/1992 | See Source »

Meteorites consist of pieces of cosmic matter which reach the Earth's surface. If the matter does not reach the surface, it is called a meteor. Meteors are the "shooting stars" seen in the night sky which result from the vaporization of bits of cosmic matter...

Author: By Robert C. Kwong, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Geologist Searches for Meteorites, Hopes for Clues to Earth's History | 2/5/1992 | See Source »

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