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...pace of the information revolution. There is hardly a company in the industrialized world that hasn't tried to boost productivity by moving work onto computers. Some 70 million Americans -- including more and more schoolchildren -- already spend part of their workday at a keyboard. When the so-called information highway gets built, they could spend even more of their days and nights hunched over glowing screens, bodies perfectly still except for their fingers flying over the keys...
Software giant Microsoft today announced it would test its "Tiger" interactive TV software in Europe by early 1996 -- a several-city experiment well beyond the scope of its demo early next year in Seattle. The video server technology -- like similar highway efforts from Time Warner, Viacom, Bell Atlantic and others -- lets viewers retrieve programs, concerts and, for instance, watch a music video before buying CDs and concert tickets. TIME senior writer Philip Elmer-DeWitt says Microsoft's $8 billion capo, Bill Gates, is well positioned to repeat his software success in the next info revolution, and other giants want...
Peck also points to a 1991 federal law which reduces federal highway construction funds for states without seat belt provisions. Under the law, Massachusetts would lose some $9 million in construction subsidies, Peck says...
Ford notes that after a Massachusetts seat belt law was repealed in 1986, highway fatalities dropped in the state. And he adds that federal funding will not be lost, rather only transferred to the Governor's Highway Safety Bureau...
...this campaign. Question 1, if approved, would regulate spending on ballot question campaigns. Question 3, if approved, would enforce a law prohibiting students from authorizing a waivable fee on tuition bills at Massachusetts state and community colleges. Question 8, if approved, would increase the money in the state's Highway Fund...