Word: fax
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...answer is that in the age of the fax and the fiber-optic cable, federation is the future. But federation works only under the condition of freedom. Otherwise what passes for federation is really colonialism. And though colonialism had a good 500-year run, it is spent. The only way to turn colonial empires into real federations is to allow them to break up into their constituent parts and hope that in their wisdom they will see fit to knit themselves back together again...
...first step was to phone Republican Senator Warren Rudman, a fellow Granite Stater who is among Souter's closest friends. According to Rudman, Sununu told him he was "trying to keep a low profile" on the nomination. He asked the Senator to fax to Washington a letter on the judge's behalf. It was included in materials delivered to Bush at Camp David...
Soviet purchases of the new technology of communication -- desktop publishing, computers and modems, fax and Xerox machines, cellular telephones -- could also have far-reaching effects. Washington has been cautious about releasing some of this, for fear it might enhance Soviet military power. On the contrary, it is more likely to advance the free flow of ideas and the growth of political diversity. A centralized state would find it hard to turn back the clock...
Television and radio news floods the airwaves; major events from across the globe pop instantly onto home screens; computers and fax machines relay information in a flash. But anyone who thinks the media boom has created a nation of news junkies needs to readjust his antenna. A sobering new study titled The Age of Indifference, released last week by the Times Mirror Center for the People & the Press, reveals that young Americans are barely paying attention. The under-30 generation, it reports, "knows less, cares less and reads newspapers less" than any generation in the past five decades...
...month (no rubles, please), a reform group in the Ukraine will fax the latest political developments to Western news agencies in Moscow. In the capital the telephone company, which six months ago charged $160 to install an overseas line, now asks foreign companies to pay $20,800. The Bolshoi and Kirov ballet troupes have licensed their names in Europe, and the British promoter who put that deal together has signed an agreement to slap the prestigious titles on soap, shoes, perfume and panty hose in the U.S. Says Peter Brightman, head of the company that okayed the contract: "Everyone...