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...Paris on May 27 to sign the accord, which will establish a NATO-Russia Permanent Joint Council to discuss security issues, without, according to U.S. officials, limiting NATO's authority to station troops or weapons wherever it wishes. Then NATO ministers will gather in Madrid in July and offer membership on NATO's 50th anniversary in 1999 to the former captive nations of Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic...
...means more than the addition of new frequencies to the wireless spectrum. Unlike many older systems, which send a voice in a single stream as analog waves, PCS uses digital signals that break sound into discrete bits--the 1s and 0s that run computers. Digital technology enables PCS to offer such features as E-mail, caller ID and paging as well as compact-disc-quality sound and greater security from wireless eavesdroppers and phone-number thieves. (Digital technology is also becoming available in non-PCS formats...
...promising--or threatening--is PCS that behemoths from AT&T to the Baby Bells are furiously overlaying their analog systems with digital networks to compete with upstart carriers. That creates more confusion as companies like AT&T, the largest wireless outfit in the country with some 7 million subscribers, offer both digital and analog service along with the corresponding handsets...
Since this is my last column, I am torn between the desire to offer some final thought-provoking insights and the urge to add an inflammatory and self-congratulatory exclamation point to five semesters of writing editorials for The Crimson, so I'll probably attempt to do both...
BOOKS . . . KOWLOON TONG: On June 30 Britain will end its long-term ownership and control of Hong Kong and hand over the colony to the People?s Republic of China. Hot off the presses, Paul Theroux?s ?Kowloon Tong? (Houghton Mifflin; 243 pages; $23) offers Theroux?s imaginative version of how some Hong Kong residents have fared -- and will fare -- in the face of such a monumental and imminent change, writes TIME Literary Critic Paul Gray. Neville Mullard, 43, lives with his widowed mother Betty in a Hong Kong house called, in honor of their native land, Albion Cottage...