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...channels and digital pictures from space, used to be a mosquito on the back of the elephant cable-TV business. Now it's starting to draw blood. In what could be the next long distance-style price war, upstart EchoStar Communications of Englewood, Colorado, began offering its 18-in. dish for $199--a third of the usual price--to buyers who spend about $25 a month on programming. Market leader DirecTV, owned by General Motors' Hughes Electronics, is freezing rates until the year 2000, and will probably cut the price of its $600 dish by Labor...
...think you can easily escape the dreaded cable companies. Tele-Communications Inc., the nation's largest cable operator, and No. 2 Time Warner, among others, own Primestar Partners of Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, the second largest dbs provider. TCI has begun to offer a $99 dish installation--half the usual price--to those consumers who sign up for two years...
...realize that if she were just a tad overdone she could well be a secret basket case. She delivers several of the most memorable lines of the movie, lecturing to her "captors," as she calls them while serving them her signature culinary creation, known simply and ominously as "Hot Dish...
...world greeted the birth of Louise Joy Brown on July 25, 1978, with fanfare fit for a princess. Many hailed her as a technological godsend, dubbing her the "Baby of the Century." However, theologians and some scientists sounded ethical alarms. Others questioned whether the girl conceived in a petri dish could ever lead a normal life. The answer? Almost. According to London's Daily Mail, Brown works in a burger joint and is studying to be a school nurse--but is reportedly buoyed by a trust fund of earnings from TV projects and the book written by her parents. Brown...
...flames by a flying saucer's death ray in Independence Day. The house that, come Christmas, will be invaded by uggy green creatures with no manners at all in Tim Burton's Mars Attacks! The house whose primary resident supposedly knows every secret of a secretive government--the hot dish about alien sightings, alien abductees, alien autopsies--except that, as viewers of TV shows like The X-Files are taught, the President doesn't know the half of it, because the information is kept from him by conspiratorial feds who may be, God help us, aliens themselves...