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Some would count students who still can't dial into the Science Center computer pool, commonly known as HUSC, after more than 50 attempts at 1:00 a.m., among the chronically distraught...
...others build the box. Instead, it has concentrated on solving a more pressing problem: how to make electronic messaging as pervasive and easy to use as telephoning. To make a phone call, even a long-distance one, you just look up the number, pick up the phone and dial. To send a piece of E-mail across the country, by contrast, you have to know not only the recipient's number (or E- mail "address") but also what system he subscribes to (MCI Mail, AT&T Mail, CompuServe, Prodigy, Internet, etc.). To receive a message, you have to hook your...
...Israeli national phone company, has launched a popular service: faxes to God. Bezek employees carried more than 300 faxes to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem last week, many of them sent from as far away as Tahiti, India and Norway. One hopeful Israeli faxed his lottery number. International supplicants, dial...
...message is as simple as Ivory Soap's classic "It floats." In this case, it glows. Timex introduced a dial that lights up in a commercial so droll that some Saturday Night Live viewers took it for an SNL send-up. Sinatra croons "Strangers in the night . . ." as a smitten firefly hovers over the sparkling watch. Smack! A huge hand suddenly swats at the radiant suitor but misses him, hitting the watch. The disconsolate firefly takes off. The object of his affections "takes a licking and keeps on ticking...
...York's Long Island, Stern, 38, graduated from Boston University and began his radio career in 1976. But he didn't hit his shock- jock stride until joining Washington's WWDC in 1981. He then moved to WNBC in New York, but his lewd material, including sketches like Bestiality Dial-a- Date, got him fired. He was picked up by a struggling FM station, wxrk, in 1985, and in short order boosted its ranking from 21st...