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...additives. Long a part of the flackery for food products, such boasts may soon be appearing not only on what you eat but also on what you wear. Making their debut this holiday season are Levi's Naturals -- jeans fashioned from cotton whose hues are inherent in the fiber rather than the result of dying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Showing Their True Colors | 12/9/1991 | See Source »

...General Instruments, are developing proposals for HDTV standards in the U.S., which will be chosen by the Federal Communications Commission by spring 1993. Even a digital system has its disadvantages. For one, the signal is so rich with information that it may have to be delivered to homes on fiber-optic cable, which is expensive to install...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clear Picture, Fuzzy Future | 12/9/1991 | See Source »

...speech peppered with personal anecdotes about former presidents, former Washington Post Executive Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee '43 said last night that he thinks lies "tear at the fiber" of democratic government...

Author: By Seth Mnookin, | Title: Washington Post Editor Bradlee Gives Lecture | 11/15/1991 | See Source »

producer of plastics, fiber and chemicals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Any Bright Ideas Out There? | 11/11/1991 | See Source »

Under the FCC proposal, telephone companies would be allowed to package and deliver a smorgasbord of television programming, including shows already carried by cable systems and broadcast stations. The programs would be transmitted via a so-called video dial tone, carried over fiber-optic cable, which would cost the phone companies billions of dollars to install. Defending their turf, cable-TV operators contend that the phone companies would have an unfair advantage because they could subsidize their video service with profits from their phone business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communications: Getting Totally Wired | 11/4/1991 | See Source »

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