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...there was any lingering doubt that the computer has become ensconced as a member of the American family, it was dispelled at the turn of the year by some startling statistics. For the first time ever, consumers in 1994 bought $8 billion worth of PCs -- just a smidgen away from the $8.3 billion they spent on TVs. The sales record in terms of dollars is bound to fall to the computer soon, though the TV's cheaper price guarantees its dominion in numbers for a while...
...more than 39 million, or 15% of the nation's population. Worse, median income continued to decline, while the inequality between high- and low-income families increased. Labor Secretary Robert Reich openly showed concern that the U.S. was in danger of becoming a "two-tiered society." There was a smidgen of good news at week's end: new figures showed an unemployment rate of 5.9% -- the lowest in four years...
...Frank Corder do it? He appeared to be depressed by the death of his father and the recent breakup of his marriage. What's clear is that he had a history of alcohol and drug abuse, and died with a .045 blood-alcohol content, just a smidgen above the legal limit for pilots. His blood also showed trace amounts of cocaine. Relatives said Corder might have had publicity in mind because he once talked admiringly of Mathias Rust's 1987 landing in Red Square. A brother reportedly was told of a suicide plan...
...Lorena Bobbitt and Geraldo Rivera, this is farfetched by only a smidgen. (Who can be certain, in fact, that Geraldo hasn't already done it?) The film takes place in the year 1999, when the crime problem has ratchetted up a few notches. Driving home from work, Jessica sees random fights on the streets, and when she enters a bar, a computerized sensor announces, "Weapons clear." Despite a few lapses in logic -- even for a man whose appeals are exhausted, how can an execution be scheduled this precisely? -- the film, directed by Tommy Lee Wallace (Stephen King's "It") from...
THERE WOULD BE NO CHANGE IN THE TASTE OF THE daily bread, but the addition of folic acid, a valuable B vitamin, to flour, breads and baked goods, as recommended by an advisory panel of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, could prevent a lot of misery. Just a smidgen of B, the group reports, could reduce the risk of neural-tube birth defects...