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...DIAL ANXIETY...
Under the FCC proposal, telephone companies would be allowed to package and deliver a smorgasbord of television programming, including shows already carried by cable systems and broadcast stations. The programs would be transmitted via a so-called video dial tone, carried over fiber-optic cable, which would cost the phone companies billions of dollars to install. Defending their turf, cable-TV operators contend that the phone companies would have an unfair advantage because they could subsidize their video service with profits from their phone business...
...course, unlike members of other clubs, the members of the Fusilli Club used their political connections to have even more fun: yesterday, they were on the Dial-a Menu recording...
...experience and remember," says neurosurgeon Howard Eisenberg of the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. "Yet there's no universally accepted theory of how memory works." Some activities, like remembering a number looked up in the telephone directory, are retained for only a brief time. Soon after you dial the number, the brain discards this "working memory...
...Even Shamir knows they consult me day and night by phone. I dial direct...