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What if television sets were equipped with knobs that let viewers customize the shows they watch? If they could adjust the sex content, for example, or regulate the violence, or shift the political orientation to the left or right? What if motion pictures were able to monitor the attention level of audiences and modify their content accordingly, lengthening some scenes while cutting others short if they evoke yawns. What if the newspapers that reach subscribers' homes every morning could be edited with each particular reader in mind -- filled with stories selected because they affected his neighborhood, or had an impact...
Ortega seems eager, however, to give at least the appearance of cooperation. He quickly formed the Nicaraguan version of the "national reconciliation commission" that each country must set up to monitor compliance with the pact. He invited opposition political groups and Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo, the archbishop of Managua, to nominate candidates for the four-person panel. As a friendly gesture to Arias, Nicaragua dropped its lawsuit in the World Court charging Costa Rica with violating international law by harboring contras...
...machines. The company hopes the models, which start at $1,350, will generate much more excitement than its PCjr series, which fizzled 16 months after a November 1983 introduction. The new IBM Model 25, for example, which sells for a suggested list price of $1,695 with a color monitor, boasts five to eight times the memory of a PCjr, a larger, easier-to-use keyboard and greatly improved graphics. On the same day IBM added a high-end $13,995 model to its much touted Personal System/2 series, the line of office gear introduced in April to replace...
...financial crisis is its faltering economy. Peruvians, who have watched their savings being ravaged by a 100% annual inflation rate, have been rushing to exchange their own currency, the Inti, for U.S. dollars that can be invested abroad. Under Garcia's new edict, the nationalized financial institutions will monitor and control all dollar sales, with the aim of keeping what remains of Peru's capital at home...
...traffic controllers stared intently at the glow on their radar monitor. Suddenly, without warning, the screen went dark. In an instant, the controllers had lost their all-important ability to track dozens of jets carrying hundreds of passengers...