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...information highway grows and driving gets more complicated, people may find themselves relying more and more on their metaphors. The Macintosh interface has already been adapted by such network services as CompuServe and America Online (on which sending a message is like posting a note on a bulletin board). A similar Mac-like program called Mosaic is making the vast resources of the Internet increasingly accessible...
Rules for the Info Highway...
...that encourages deregulation and greater competition among traditional rivals, allowing telephone and cable-TV companies to enter each other's business, for example. He also indicated that the Administration will press the telecommunications industry to provide both affordable "universal service" to all households and free access to the info highway to schools, libraries and hospitals. Initial industry reaction was favorable...
...withdrawal has been delayed, but to demonstrate their scorn for the deadline before it had even passed, members of Islamic Jihad, an extremist Muslim fundamentalist group, decided to deploy a weapon only recently borrowed from Muslim radicals elsewhere -- the suicide car bomber. So early Monday morning at a highway intersection just outside the Gaza City limits, Aziz sped the ambulance toward an Israeli patrol. The soldiers opened fire, and the bullets ignited canisters of propane that Aziz had packed inside the auto. Three Israelis were slightly wounded...
...guns or "Saturday-night specials," or how many died while resisting a stickup. To clarify the picture, Colorado Representative Patricia Schroeder is sponsoring a bill to establish a national firearm-fatality reporting system. Comparable to the system that tracks motor-vehicle deaths -- and which helps lawmakers tailor car and highway safety laws to real perils of the road -- it would identify gun victims and shooting incidents in greater detail...