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...Dial M for Murder Fri.-Sun. at 6, 10:10 p.m. Also...
...laws to make it easier to seize the assets of those involved in the trade. It also proposed that Congress enact unfair-labor-practice laws to be used against producers who pay performers in pornographic films. The Federal Communications Commission, it said, should restrict pornographic cable television shows and "Dial-a-Porn" telephone services. It also recommended that peep-show booths not be equipped with doors, so that the occupants can be clearly seen, thereby discouraging sexual activity...
...high cost of help is especially irksome because many of the calls come from owners of pirated disks, who often do not have manuals. Indeed, better use of the manuals could solve most legitimate owners' problems. MicroPro International estimates that 70% of the customers who dial for help are first- time users who find reaching for the phone easier than wading through pages of instruction. Says MicroPro Manager Lee Lensky: "People don't want to read a manual, whether it's a 300-page tome or a clean, well-written...
...Dial M for Murder Friday and Saturday...
...setting their thermostats by computer, futurists are now envisioning a brave new world of one-stop networking. Commuters will set burglar alarms, start air conditioners and program their VCRs--all through the digital keypads of their mobile phones. When appliances break down, homeowners will plug them into diagnosis outlets, dial the manufacturers and be told in a flash precisely what has gone wrong. Television sets will interrupt broadcasts to announce that clothes dryers have completed their cycles. Viewers, with the press of a key, will tell those dryers to run the clothes through one more time...