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Home automation took a major step forward last week, when the Electronic Industries Association/Consumer Electronics Group -- a trade organization that includes such giants as Sony, Panasonic, Philips, Tandy, Mitsubishi and RCA -- unveiled a new wiring standard called the Consumer Electronics Bus, or CEBus. CEBus will enable microprocessor-equipped appliances built by one company to communicate with those built by any other. In the first public demonstration, at the Winter Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, enthusiastic manufacturers showed off a prototype CEBus-controlled home of the future packed with high-tech features. When a telephone rings in a CEBus home...
...country withdraw from the disputed territories. "You have your own connections with the Israelis," Mubarak said. "We are trying hard with the Israelis, but we can't play in the court alone. You should find a way to tackle this problem of how to persuade the Israelis to move forward in the peace process...
...salary boost may attract more talent to Washington, but it will distance lawmakers even more from life beyond the Beltway. -- A retrospective view of Ronald Reagan as he heads off into the sunset. -- A new survey finds that Americans are looking forward to Bush with something less than longing. -- Hugh Sidey on the new drug czar, "Big Bill" Bennett...
...took the timeout in order to set things up offensively and try to get the ball inside to [forward Mike] Pascal," Dement said. "It was a two-point game at that point. That was a big turnover...
...director's previous movie, Angel Heart, was set in the Louisiana '50s and boasted a gallery of fine black faces. Now he was moving forward a decade and north a few hundred miles; the demands for local color were just as stringent. "Alan wanted real Southern black faces," recalls location casting director Shari Rhodes, "or a British director's idea of what a Southern face looks like. Pretty people need not apply." Rhodes was looking for dark skin, strong bone structure, "dignity." She visited nursing homes, prowled the streets of black neighborhoods and hired homeless men for walk...