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Americans, especially high-mileage males, suffer a peculiar kind of dementia in the presence of gear; they are likely to buy any piece of overpriced sports equipment, so long as it has a digital readout or is made of something crucial to the success of the space station. Or both; Panasonic is advertising a tiny hand-held Global Positioning System (GPS) device, a little brother to the satellite navigation system developed for the military and now used in aircraft and yachts. This astonishing dingus will consult the stars (satellites, actually) and tell you, on land...
...extra-large sizes) and don crash helmets, they also deck out their cycles with an ever growing array of mileage computers, ergonomically correct seats, gel-filled grips, rearview mirrors and other color-coordinated gadgetry. One hot new gizmo is a cyclist's heart monitor that transmits a continuous pulse readout to a special wristwatch...
...like the Yamaha DX7IIFD look like the instrument panel of a new Ferrari prototype. The Roland E-20 ($2,500) even has a liquid-crystal display window that flashes such information as the chord being played and the tempo being used, expressed in beats per minute. Looking at a readout to see what chord you are playing can be a hotdog move, like a weekend racer eyeing his tachometer to check how he is doing...
...graduated from college and became a music teacher. Then she lost her hearing. Now, thanks to a computer and a collection of special tools for the blind, she has made a new career as a proofreader of Braille music. Using the VersaBraille, a machine that produces a raised-dot readout of characters as they appear on a computer screen, she has been able to meet and keep in touch with hundreds of acquaintances on the CompuServe computer network. Says she: "I am deaf and blind, sure, but I am not disabled...
...know yet, and we won't know until we get a better readout on some of the credit problems that might spew out of this. Although we don't know of any, there may be problems in terms of ripple effects. So we have to wait and see. But we're doing what we can. I think the policy moves we've made are the right ones. We're in close contact with the exchanges. And we've just had some good numbers: growth in the third quarter came in at 3.8%, much stronger than we anticipated. That's good...