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This week AT&T will win the competition to market the first hand-held computer when it rolls out its highly touted Personal Communicator 440. Part computer and part cellular telephone, the $3,000 machine -- based on AT&T's Hobbit chip for portable devices -- will let users send faxes and electronic mail by writing on the small display screen with a special pen. It will also transmit and store voice messages as well as make cellular phone calls. Designed and manufactured by EO, a new Silicon Valley company that is 50% owned by AT&T, the Communicator will have...
...Using a hand-held Macintosh, Mazur asks the students bonus questions while he lectures. The students then enter the answers on several Hewlett-Packard computers which circulate through the classroom. Mazur's Macintosh records the answers, grades them immediately, then stores the results...
Despite the panic, the case against cellular phones is nowhere near as strong as the ones mounted against electric power lines, electric blankets or even hand-held police radars. Dozens of highway patrolmen have come forward to complain of tumors of the eye, the cheek or the testicles (from jamming radar guns between their legs). And there is a growing body of evidence showing that living near power lines can quadruple the risk of contracting childhood leukemia...
Slesin recommends that cellular-telephone owners practice what he calls prudent avoidance. "If you can use an ordinary phone, do." If mobility is required, he suggests either a trunk-mounted car phone or a two-piece cellular model that separates the hand-held receiver from the microwave transmitter. (So-called cordless portable phones use a different frequency and far less power, and they have not been associated with any adverse health effects...
...group portrait work, and Levinson (who directed the first episode) shows off his Diner talent for small talk tinged with satire. ("Dry wall," says one detective, musing about leaving police work for another job. "You put up dry wall, and you got a sense of accomplishment.") Though the hand-held camera and jump cuts seem like affectations, the show hums along smoothly and is refreshingly light on violence. Detectives who grill suspects in Homicide do it with verbal cunning, not strong-arm bullying. (Belzer to one: "If you're gonna lie to me, lie to me with respect...