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...president Jamie Tarses, by contrast, looked a little battered during an interview last week, taking long, contemplative pauses before answering even seemingly simple questions. There was the weight of the world in those pauses--or, just as burdensome, the weight of a relentless Hollywood lobbying campaign against her, a stream of rumors that after a season of dismal ratings, she'll soon...
Novels do not ordinarily dabble with too much exactitude in current events or upcoming headlines; fiction writers hope, after all, that their work will outlast the rapid stream of passing fancies. But Paul Theroux's Kowloon Tong (Houghton Mifflin; 243 pages; $23) arrives as a noteworthy exception to that rule. On June 30 Britain will end its long-term ownership and control of Hong Kong and hand over the colony to the People's Republic of China. Hot off the presses, Kowloon Tong offers Theroux's imaginative version of how some Hong Kong residents have fared--and will fare...
...case, however, is considered unlikely ever to reach a jury, which would be about as capable of unraveling the programming parentage of a modern microprocessor as it would be of figuring out which Sierra mountain stream was the source of a glass of water taken from San Francisco Bay. In fact, some observers think the suit's lasting legacy could well be revision of a body of patent law increasingly inadequate to handle the staggering intricacies of digital technology...
...microprocessor is the most complex man-made creation in history," says Michael Slater, principal analyst for MicroDesign Resources, based in Sebastopol, Calif. "Everything is built on everything that went before. It's a continuous stream of new ideas...but none of these ideas are broad. The broad ideas are almost all IBM's." Hey, maybe Big Blue ought to be calling its lawyer...
...means more than the addition of new frequencies to the wireless spectrum. Unlike many older systems, which send a voice in a single stream as analog waves, PCS uses digital signals that break sound into discrete bits--the 1s and 0s that run computers. Digital technology enables PCS to offer such features as E-mail, caller ID and paging as well as compact-disc-quality sound and greater security from wireless eavesdroppers and phone-number thieves. (Digital technology is also becoming available in non-PCS formats...