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Bahat declined to comment on the content of Johnson's letter...
Digital TV standards will allow broadcasters more flexibility in their offerings. Some stations can use the extra band width in their digital channels to multiply the amount of data they can transmit by a factor of six. Interactive content, such as Web pages or stock quotes, could be transmitted simultaneously...
Other stations will have the option of sending just one "signal" over their frequency, but making their broadcast high-definition instead. Manufacturers and content providers have fought over HDTV--which provides for a larger viewing area and greater resolution--for the better part of a decade. HDTV will be available over the new digital channels...
Robert Stone's fans have had to content themselves, so far, with the five novels that he has published sporadically over the past 30 or so years. A sixth is scheduled to arrive in bookstores this fall, but the wait should be soothed by Bear and His Daughter (Houghton Mifflin; 222 pages; $24), a collection of six Stone short stories that have appeared in magazines plus a previously unpublished novella that gives the new volume its name. All seven pieces demonstrate, in concentrated form, the qualities that make Stone's novels so harrowing, exhilarating and impossible to forget...
...sort of person who can settle for a middling distinction. I was perfectly content the last time I was officially singled out for recognition, in 1953, when my high school classmates voted me Third Most Likely to Succeed, Boys Division. Both of the first two went into insurance...