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If AT&T has its way, the term blind date may end up an anachronism. This week the communications giant is scheduled to unveil its VideoPhone 2500, a compact telephone with color screen and camera lens that allows callers to get an up- close-and-personal look at each other...
Advanced compression technology shrinks the video signals to fit through conventional phone lines. "Psychologists tell us that 55% of a message is delivered in body language," notes Stephen Clemente, an AT&T executive. O.K., but what if your repertoire of phone language includes yawning and eye rolling? No problem. Callers...
Historiographers (an ugly-sounding word for historians of history) are coming round to the view that history consists of little more than a series of consensual myths. It is not a nation's past that shapes its mythology but a nation's mythology that determines its past. History becomes a...
Any way you slice it, the economy is sluggish. But last week the Commerce Department began highlighting the gross domestic product instead of the more familiar gross national product as its preferred gauge of the economy's health. Both measure the total output of goods and services. But the GNP...
It was a cold day in hell when Terry Anderson won his freedom at last. The snow fell hard in Mount Lebanon as he spent the last 24 hours pacing in his cell, playing solitaire by candlelight and listening to the BBC broadcast stories of his progress on the road...