Word: signalized
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...next few months, Balkin's assistants will pay people to stay up until 4 a.m. Then they're going to give them wads of gum and keep them up 14 hours more, testing their alertness by having them push a button as fast as they can when a signal goes off. The subjects will do this until they go mad and beat one another in a way that's uncoordinated enough to entertain the scientists. At least that's how I would run the experiment...
With the thing in place only three days before the big game, I went to work trying to get a high-definition signal. I got none. No Miami stations have started broadcasting in HD yet and the cable-TV industry hasn't even settled on a standard. My satellite dish wasn't any help, either. DirecTV shows one channel of HDTV, but nobody sells a decoder that can tune it in. Aaargh...
ONLINE TRADERS BEWARE Ever tried to get your broker on the phone for an urgent trade, only to be greeted by a constant busy signal? That's what happened to E*Trade customers for three days last week when a software glitch prevented the site from executing trades for an hour or two. The incident, which came only a week after SEC chairman Arthur Levitt warned traders about the dangers of Net stock mania, spurred New York State's attorney general to launch an investigation into the booming industry. Some online brokers, hit with a flood of service complaints...
...trigger finger. During a third-period power play, sophomore right wing Tammy Shewchuk fired a shot on goal that startled a goal judge into lighting the lamp just as it left her stick. The shot never actually went in. Shewchuk finished with one goal and four assists. The erroneous signal proved only to be a grim reminder of the Crimson's dominance in the final round of the Beanpot...
AMMAN: Nothing like a funeral to prompt some healing of family feuds. Syria's President Hafez Assad's surprise arrival at Monday's burial of King Hussein may signal a renewed willingness to pursue regional peace efforts, which broke down following the slaying of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. "Assad knew that people would be reading the signals at Hussein's funeral," says TIME Middle East correspondent Scott MacLeod. "Showing up at an event attended by Israeli leaders and President Clinton suggests he wants to get back into some sort of peace process...