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...past 18 months, each weekly issue of Time has been available on the electronic newsstand of America Online, the fastest-growing of the commercial computer services. Since going online, our editors, writers and correspondents have been familiarizing themselves with yet another new journalistic venue: the ongoing exchange of real-time computer messages with our readers -- friend and foe alike...
...potential victim of all this convergence seems to be the industry supporting the CD-ROM, which is now the fastest-growing form of multimedia. A single 5-in.-diameter CD-ROM can hold everything from video games to a 21- volume encyclopedia. But within a decade, the millions of bits of information now stored on these discs will probably be piped into homes from video servers. That threat of eventual obsolescence, however, does little to alter projections of almost $10 billion a year in combined CD-ROM hardware and software sales in the interim...
...first event of the meet, the 200 medley relay, the previously undefeated Crimson (5-1 Ivy, 7-2 overall) came out strong. Freshman Stephanie Lawrence, senior co-captain Deborah Kory, freshman Mary Naber and freshman Keiko Iwahara recorded the fastest time of the season, setting the pace for the remainder of the meet...
...American families and businesses are being forced to privatize security and sanitation by default. Community associations, ranging from small condominiums to sprawling planned communities, have grown from 10,000 in 1970 to 150,000 in 1993 and now include nearly 1 out of every 8 Americans. ``It's the fastest-growing form of local government,'' says William Eggers, who conducts an annual study of privatization in the U.S. ``People are saying that if the government can't protect them anymore or keep their streets clean, then they are going to do it themselves...
That's often the way it goes for the approximately 500 Muslims enrolled in the College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Despite the fact that they represent one of the fastest growing creeds in the College, Islamic students say the Harvard administration still doesn't take their concerns or religious needs seriously...