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...called ATMS shuttle prodigious quantities of data at blistering speeds. A set-top box with five times the computing power of a top-of-the-line IBM PC downloads images from the server at the rate of 30 pictures a second. Press a button on the remote, and the signal travels through cable-TV lines, fiber-optic wires, switches and servers on the other side of town in less time than it takes for a conventional remote control to change the channel on a TV set across a living room...
Tired of people whose watches beep periodically to remind them an hour has passed? This Seiko timepiece beeps for a better reason: to signal an incoming phone message. With the press of a button, the caller's number appears on the watch face. The combination watch and beeper enables owners to stay in touch without clipping a boxy beeper on a belt or stuffing one in a handbag. Beeper telephone service must be arranged separately...
...first Thanksgiving Proclamation, issued by President Washington, asserts that "it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God." The U.S., however, had special reasons to be thankful: "for the signal and manifold mercies . . . in the course and conclusion of the late war"; "for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions"; and "for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed." Men fight and plan for liberty, but they do not decree it. God does that. The Thanksgiving Proclamation echoed, in workaday language, the assertion...
...hostage by Serbs in Bosnia, even though U.S. officials are uneasy about President Clinton's offer to send in up to 25,000 U.S. troops to complete the mission. Defense Secretary William Perry said the U.N. would have to make the decision to move in -- action that, ironically, would signal a larger U.S. intention to stay out of the war. But if it happens, he added, the American soldiers would be prepared to handle Serbs with "overwhelming force." (The Bosnian Serbs have said they're holding the peacekeepers as insurance against further NATO air strikes.) But even as NATO itself...
...that he said blurted out, "That's the Bill Clinton we've been waiting for" -- a remark that drew a momentary frown from the president, who had avoided directly criticizing McCurdy.) "Are they going to play it safe, or be bold in taking on the Republicans?" Carney asks. "The signal Clinton issued was that they're going to be bold and challenge them for the swing vote." BTW: White House officials tell Carney the president is planning a major public address on these issues for the middle of next week.Post your opinion on theWashingtonbulletin board...