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...navigation experiment with Global Positioning System satellites. For the first time ever, the shuttle successfully received GPS data -- and that's something of a relief after a $33 million antimatter experiment was ruined Tuesday by communication breakdowns. Coming after the antenna malfunction that prevented TV broadcasts of their Mir hookup, the astronauts must have wondered whether their record of woes would outpace the Russian station's. Now the only thing they need worry about is storage space...
Still, imagine a well-run, serious school with an Internet hookup in the library for occasional use by students under supervision who are working on research projects; would that be so bad? No. Though it ranks around 944th on my list of important school improvements, it's not bad. But in reality, too many schools will use the Internet the same way they use computers themselves: to entertain children at minimal cost to teachers. If children are turned loose to surf, then Internet in the schools won't be a minor educational improvement, it will be a major disaster. Another...
...trusted. "Governments will always find a way to tax the Net," says McCullagh, who points out a recent Clinton-Gore project: the $2.25 billion library-and-school universal service fund, which was paid for with surcharges on extra home-phone lines -- traditionally used for Internet hookup. "Despite what Clinton wants you to hear," he says, "that's hardly deregulatory...
ARRAIGNED. THEODORE KACZYNSKI, 54, Unabomber suspect; on charges of mailing an explosive device that killed a New Jersey ad executive; in Newark, New Jersey, via TV hookup from Sacramento, California, where he is being held. Kaczynski pleaded not guilty...
Nintendo's competitors, of course, are hardly disappearing. The Sony Playstation has acquired a fervent following, and in Los Angeles this week Sega will be trumpeting the arrival of a 32-bit version of Sonic the Hedgehog, a soaring game called Nights, and a Net Link telephone hookup that will allow Sega Saturn owners to use their systems as on ramps to the Information Highway...