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...prodded by its chairman, Alfred Sikes, has proposed a more sweeping set of rules -- which it may enact later this year -- allowing phone companies to provide a "video dial tone" that would allow people in effect to attach their television sets to their phone lines and call up shows they want to watch...
...interactive television transmits data via radio waves to a base station linked by satellite to the firm's headquarters. The systems will be available in 25 major cities by the end of this year. While the concept may be a boon for exhausted nine-to-fivers too weary to dial Domino's, it may be a bane for parents of the always hungry twelvesomething...
...elaborate. No innovation is safe from rethinking: last year's air-filled running shoe, for example, is now competing against a new computer-designed number from Puma that needs no laces, straps or Velcro fasteners. The Puma Disc tightens by means of an invisible system: a turn of the dial on the shoe's tongue compresses connecting sleeves around it, making the shoe hug the particular shape of your foot. But such convenience items are overshadowed by advances in big-ticket technology. Among other things, the latest in '90s high-tech gear promises to give you a full workout...
...back with a burning desire to do something good for mankind." Some 300 groups of Medjugorje believers exist across the U.S., publishing at least 30 newsletters and holding a dozen conferences a year. There are 70 telephone hot lines that feature the Virgin's messages from Yugoslavia: in Alabama dial MOM-MARY. Over the past 16 months a Texas foundation has put up 6,500 billboards inspired by Medjugorje. The huge signs say the Virgin appeared "to tell you God loves...
...romance of radio, this book, both because it tells the story of a radio station launched in 1926 Minneapolis and because, between the lines, >WLT is the story of Keillor himself. He has slipped through the radio dial into the living rooms and automobiles of millions of Americans and, in the age of television, has breathed new life into a once magical medium of communication...