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...high-pitched signal lets you know when Junior has wandered more than 35 feet away. If he's not in sight, just push a button and activate the child's homing device. Next: TeenFence, an invisible electronic barrier that keeps teenage daughters in and teenage suitors...
...videophone was unveiled at the New York World's Fair in 1964, doctors have dreamed of healing by wire. But the reality of transmitting a detailed picture over a 1-mm-thick (.04 in.) copper cable proved elusive. Then in the 1980s engineers working with a technique called digital signal compression managed to boost the data-carrying capacity of ordinary phone lines 30-fold...
...appalling as the carnage was, it seemed to signal something worse: a final loss of faith by black Americans in the fairness of the criminal-justice system and hence in the rule of law itself. It will be easier to clean up the rubble than to heal the mistrust and anger that caused it. (See cover stories beginning on page...
Collins' opinion of the signal that the jury's decision will flash to police and other whites across the country is widely shared among blacks. On a scholarly level, Robert Starks, professor of inner city studies education at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago, asserts, "The message is loud and clear. It reinforces the 1857 Dred Scott dictum that no black man has any rights that a white man is bound to respect. African-American males feel it is open season." Not only males, either. Akos Esi, 36, a professional nurse who has immigrated from Ghana to New York City...
...Tajikistan has been under a virtual state of siege since last month, when supporters of the opposition began to gather in the tens of thousands outside the parliament building to urge dismissal of the republic's legislature of holdover party officials. Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov received a warning signal of his own in | January, when students protesting the liberalization of prices clashed with police, resulting in two deaths. Muslim extremists view Karimov as the major obstacle to setting up an Islamic republic, while democrats see him as a sly defender of the old regime who, they claim, "gives with...