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...fate. They are enraged that ostensibly sympathetic heterosexuals, including their own families, may voice concern but fail to grasp the depth of the emotional exhaustion, isolation and sense of loss. And many gay men, even when they test negative for the disease and meticulously avoid behavior thought likely to transmit it, live with a constant sense of doom, an anguishing irrational certainty that this virus will someday, somehow, come to get them too. "It's always in the back of my mind, except when it's in the front of my mind," says Mark Mobley, an arts critic...
...that the agency's resources are too limited for it to do so. Critics also note that any gains consumers realize from lower cable prices could be more than offset by the $100 billion to $500 billion they may end up paying to upgrade the telephone system to transmit high-speed video information...
...telephone companies warily, and now the Federal Communications Commission has given it ample reason for that concern. The FCC has granted phone companies the right to carry TV programming into millions of homes. The controversial decision is a major victory for phone operators, which will now be able to transmit TV shows, movies, sports and news formerly carried only by cable and broadcast networks. They will also be allowed to acquire a financial stake of up to 5% in programmers like cnn, Walt Disney and even cbs. The ruling is expected to pave the way for new consumer services, including...
...first time, thanks to a Federal Communications Commission decision, passengers can receive incoming calls in flight -- routed through a central switchboard and wordlessly announced on the video screen so as not to disturb snoozers. More important, passengers will be able to transmit high-quality computer or telefax data from their seats. Travelers carrying laptop computers need simply plug into the standard AT&T RJ-11 connector in the armrest; laptopless passengers can use the system's built-in keypad to punch out a message, displayed on the video screen, and send...
Network technology, linking computers via fiber optic cables or satellite so that they can transmit and share data, has in recent years accounted for many of the most significant advances in academic computing...