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Pino, a second-year j.v. player and the team's spark plug, would like to play for the varsity squad, but realizes that a move from j.v. to varsity is not an everyday occurrence...
...space on courtroom benches. Joyce Johnson, a contributing editor for Vanity Fair, began work on What Lisa Knew. Free-lance writer Maury Terry launched into The Dark Side of 10th Street. Sam Erlich, a fellow free lance, undertook Lisa, Hedda, Joel. Marie Winn, author of a television critique, The Plug-In Drug, jotted notes for an untitled book...
...teams of divers from the U.S. and South America struggled last week to plug a hole in the Argentine ship Bahia Paraiso, which had sunk and was leaking 3,000 gal. of fuel a day, squadrons of scientists rushed in to assess the damage caused by Antarctica's first major oil spill. "This is the worst ecological disaster for Antarctica, period," says James Barnes, general counsel to the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition. It is sure to stoke the already heated debate over the future of development, tourism and mining in Antarctica...
CEBus systems use a house's existing wiring to control appliances. For example, a homeowner might plug a CEBus-compatible microwave oven into a wall socket in the kitchen. Then he or she could set the oven temperature and its start and stop time by using a CEBus controller. That could be a telephone linked to the house's electrical system, a home computer plugged into a wall socket or a remote hand-held controller that beams infrared rays to an outlet. Last week Bell Atlantic announced plans to test a new system that uses standard phones to control...
...project called Smart House, an offshoot of the National Association of Home Builders is developing a revolutionary wiring system that would supply not only AC power but also telephone, audio, video and high-speed data signals to every electrical outlet in the house. The wiring would enable homeowners to plug anything from a telephone to a waffle iron into one of the new outlets, and the socket would determine whether to deliver a dial tone or 120 volts...