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...compact telephone with color screen and camera lens that allows callers to get an up- close-and-personal look at each other while they're conversing. Although video telephone conferencing systems have become almost standard equipment in the world of business, they come with a $25,000 price tag and require special operating networks. AT&T's home phone is expected to cost $1,500, and will plug into a standard telephone outlet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Telecommunications: Reach Out and See Someone | 1/13/1992 | See Source »

...that this whiz kid had returned home to put shoes on everybody and introduce them to book learning. Says Carrick Patterson, former editor of the Arkansas Gazette: "They thought he had gotten too big for his britches." Clinton admits that he took too much for granted. He hiked license-tag fees. The fact that his wife used her maiden name and that the family was not a member of any organized religion did not help either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bill Clinton: Front Runner By Default | 12/30/1991 | See Source »

Look here. ((He pulls a three-page typed document from a pink folder with a red tag saying URGENT.)) It's a report on the supreme soviet of Ukraine discussing the Minsk agreement; they ratified it without discussion, then added several amendments attaching conditions to the guarantees in the original document about open borders, freedom of movement and free exchange of information. So you see what's starting to happen already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Want to Stay the Course | 12/23/1991 | See Source »

...name tag is as inviting as he is. "How are you today?" asks the man whose tag curiously reads, 'Wernher P.' And for about the thousandth time, his thick, French/Creole accent betraying his Haitian heritage, he inquires, "What would you like...

Author: By Stephen E. Frank, | Title: THE SMILING FACE BEHIND THE COUNTER | 12/7/1991 | See Source »

...cases, that's what writing a paper comes down to--citing supporting evidence in a kind of index card frenzy to prove that you know what you are talking about. We tag on a quote from Max Weber or Simone de Beauvoire to an idea of our own with the prayer that we will magically assume his or her authority. It often ends up as our experts against somebody else's--Hume vs. Locke, Marx vs. Hegel. The only thing we accomplish is making our TF's pull all-nighters to finish grading...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: I Sold My Soul to Derrida | 11/26/1991 | See Source »

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