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...look at all the people you see walking around you. There's Ted. Did he and Patti ever settle the paternity suit? Didn't Sarah get kicked out of the Undergraduate Council for nonattendance? Do you think they really wanted her to attend? Is Phil still on disc-pro? He's not smart enough to handle butane...

Author: By Rob Greenstein, | Title: Hitting the Champagne Crunch | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

Only one sleep technique has worked. Each night I program a sequence of soothing music which delivers me into a deep and peaceful slumber. As soon as the sequence ends, however, I'm up. Without input from the compact disc player, the speakers pick up a local rap radio station...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: To Sleep, Perchance to Dream... | 4/3/1989 | See Source »

...special agent Jim Phelps no longer gets his top-secret instructions by merely opening an envelope and listening to a tape recorder. These days Phelps puts his right thumb on the special pad of a black box that, after reading his thumbprint, promptly pops open and gives a laser-disc video presentation of his next assignment. No one but Phelps can open the box because no one else has his thumbprint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Putting The Finger on Security | 4/3/1989 | See Source »

Such spin-offs from the parent dictionary are, for the moment, purely speculative. Similarly, it will be at least 18 months before anyone can buy the OED2 in computer form. A laser-disc version of the first OED, however, with software less powerful than the newest Waterloo innovations, has been commercially available for the past year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Scholarly Everest Gets Bigger | 3/27/1989 | See Source »

...pickup, his reputation precedes him. Anyone within a several-block radius can hear Tabarez coming, for he drives what is known as a "boom car." The auto mechanic from Gardena, Calif., spent $8,000 to install the vehicle's current stereo system, which comprises a deluxe Alpine 7902 compact-disc player, two heavy-duty Orion amplifiers and 32 speakers. His rig can deliver a bone-jarring 144 decibels of sound. "I just got carried away," he admits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shake, Rattle and Roar Thunder in the distance? | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

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