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...overlooked a more promising market: the millions of computer users who are already playing games, exchanging mail and entertaining themselves on the computer networks. Although a switched, broadband network could serve both computer users and television viewers, cable-TV operators in particular seem reluctant to allow computer owners to plug in. The cable operators, contends Michael Godwin of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a public-interest group involved in electronic communications issues, "have a couch-potato vision of the future...
...week's end many marine biologists had been persuaded that the project was acceptable, and government approval seemed likely. The Scripps Institution, for its part, has set aside $2.9 million to study the experiment's effects on marine mammals and promises to pull the plug on the loudspeakers the minute the neighbors complain...
...prison system would function more effectively if justice were served more swiftly, sentences imposed more reliably and space allocated more rationally. The lag of months, sometimes years, between the crime and the punishment is counterproductive. Says Marcus Felson, a sociology professor at the University of Southern California: "((An electric)) plug that shocks you a year later or once in a thousand times isn't going to deter...
Still smarting from Congress's decision last fall to pull the plug on the $11 billion Superconducting Supercollider, many scientists fear that the new focus on results-oriented research will make funding for pure science scarce. There is already "heightened anxiety" within the scientific community about a tightening of research budgets, says Philip Griffiths, director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. "Scientists are having trouble finding support for their own work, and it's even gloomier for their students...
...lines could probably be breached by a determined onslaught of North Korean artillery. If the South Korean defenses did break, the North could probably take the whole of the South in a week or two. To address these issues, Aspin has announced a yearlong study with South Korea to plug the holes identified by the Pentagon report...