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McCovey's smart home is more than a celebrity's novelty item. It is part of a fast-growing industry: home automation. The business has been booming for several years in Japan and is catching on among manufacturers in Europe and the U.S. Their goal: to do for the rest of the house what remote controls did for the family TV and VCR. "People are used to sitting in a chair and making things happen across the room," says Roger Dooley, publisher of Electronic House magazine. "The idea of turning lights and appliances on and off automatically is beginning...
...lately devoted page after page to the plague of consumer shortages, documenting their intensity in editorial columns and letting readers vent their rage in letters sections. "Shortages attack us literally from all sides," complained the daily Vechernyaya Moskva. "It seems that soon it will be difficult to name an item that doesn't fall into a shortage category...
...Administration has refused to raise taxes or keep the lid on spending for non-means-tested entitlements, such as Social Security, which are geared towards immediate consumption rather than use in savings and investment. As a result, interest payments on the national debt have become the fastest growing line item in the federal budget, not defense spending...
Union organizers and support staff members said that building security had not been considered a bargaining item until now. But most agreed that the rape, which occured in an upper floor office, made the issue a pertinent one for contract negotiations, which are expected to begin in February...
...corporate campaign against the University. Last spring, activists conducted a "Know-Your-Neighbor" campaign, postering the neighborhoods of local members of the Board of Overseers, explaining to residents that their friendly neighbor was responsible for a company with investments in South Africa. Last spring, divestment became an agenda item at Board of Overseer meetings; last week, the Overseers approved a report calling for a slight modification in University investment policy toward South Africa...