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...hold, he returned to the main menu -- a revolving carousel offering shopping, games, sports, news, movies. He entered a computer-generated shopping mall, complete with a white stucco Crate & Barrel store and the curved glass facade of Sharper Image. He visited a Post Office shop that offered next-day stamp delivery and three-hour package pickup. He popped into the Warner Bros. Studio Store, where he ordered a pair of $10 raspberry-colored baseball caps. He visited the video-game area and played interactive gin rummy with the Willards, the FSN's first live customers, who were sitting...
CAPTION: The cost of mailing a letter is going up, but adjusted for inflation, a first-class stamp actually cost more...
...days after the furor died down over recent plans to issue a stamp showing the 1945 Hiroshima mushroom cloud, a newly-declassified document shows the U.S. had contingency plans to drop the atomic bomb on China in the 1950s. The National Archives today released an April 17, 1954 memo (signed by the secretary to the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Eisenhower Administration), which spells out plans to bomb China if the Chinese violated the tenuous truce that ended the Korean War. "In light of the enemy capability to launch a massive ground offensive, U.S. air support operations, including...
...cents for first-class U.S. stamps wasn't expensive (or awkward) enough, the cost of mailing a letter will climb to 32 cents shortly after the New Year rolls around. The independent Postal Rate Commission today approved the 10.3 percent increase -- part of a set of hikes to infuse the cash-strapped post office with an additional $4.7 billion in 1995. But the commission frowned on a Postal Service request to raise all rates by the same percentage: Instead of charging a quarter for each post card or extra ounce of regular mail, as the post office wanted, post cards...
...larger bite from the upper brackets, with either a national sales tax or a flat tax of 17% on everybody. But it took congressional Democrats until week's end to utter their first opposition rhetoric. "We're not about to roll over and play dead while the Republicans rubber stamp their extremist, supply-side agenda," warned House Democratic leader Richard Gephardt...