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Halfway down a corridor, Becky suddenly heard "the voice," an irritating robotic message transmitted from the suitcase to a wireless, button-sized beige receiver in her ear. "Gamma alarm four," the voice droned. That was a strong radiation signal. She glanced left at the room number on the next door and subtracted three from it. The detector's microcomputer takes several seconds to analyze the radiation and calculate its strength, so the room three doors behind her must have been the one actually giving off gamma rays...
...Still, the Republican budget doesn't really cut the size of the government as it exists today. It only reduces the share of gross domestic product that government would have taken if existing spending patterns had gone unchanged. The Republican proposal does promise a balanced budget in 2002, a signal accomplishment. Most important, the argument is settled about whether balance is desirable. Bill Clinton has signed on. But fiscal sanity is not the goal. Reducing the scope of the government is. So there is much more to do. How much, exactly? Newt Gingrich doesn't say. But his chief lieutenant...
...scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (J.P.L.) in Pasadena, California, where the Galileo probe was largely designed and built, the moment of highest drama during the Dec. 7 Jupiter encounter will occur at 3:04 p.m. (P.S.T.). At that instant, a signal that will have been sent from the spacecraft 52 minutes earlier will arrive at J.P.L., having traveled 600 million miles at the speed of light. "A positive signal means the probe has survived the most difficult entry ever and is transmitting to Galileo," explains William O'Neil, the Galileo project manager. "That pretty much says...
...cool things that you can do with their Explorer browser that you can't do in Netscape." Microsoft announced that it would license Sun Microsystems' Java software, hedging its bet that its competing publishing software won't gain wide acceptance on the Internet. Quittner says that both decisions signal Microsoft's acceptance of the Internet's trend toward an open exchange of information. "Everybody is moving toward opening up their sites and away from these sort of walled-off communities. It doesn't really make sense to wall things off unless your content is so extremely good that people will...
...last week, explains Slater, Mrs. Rabin ruled out the possibility of a run for the Knesset or accepting the U.S. ambassorship. "But she seemed not quite as sure about the job of President of the State. That's a ceremonial job and she seemed to be sending out a signal that she could do something like that. It's very unlikely that she will take on any political role, but some people think she may be dropping hints...