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...CompuServe has begun supplementing its offerings with CD-ROMS, combining the interactivity of a live, online connection with all the sound and animation that can be squeezed onto a CD. Prodigy plans to deliver its service to 200,000 cable-TV subscribers in San Diego -- which would let it transmit data 100 times as fast as the fastest modem. And America Online is attempting to figure out how to put them all together: cable TV, CD-ROM, online services and the Internet. "We're trying to find a way to reach 98 million households," says Case. "We're 1 million...
...disease, a bacterial infection, was largely confined to deer and wild mice until people began converting farmland into wooded suburbs -- which provided equally good habitats for the animals and the bacteria-infested ticks they carry and also brought them into contact with large numbers of people. The mice that transmit the hantavirus often take refuge in farmers' fields, barns and even homes. Air-conditioning ducts create a perfect breeding ground for Legionnaires' disease bacteria. Irrigation ditches and piles of discarded tires are ideal nesting spots for the Aedes aegypti mosquito, carrier of dengue and yellow fevers; imported used tires have...
Keeping a united front remained as much a problem in Washington as in Haiti. Still biting the hand that's trying to free him, exiled President Aristide argued against a U.S. plan to transmit prodemocracy radio messages from military airplanes if the messages urge Haitians not to flee the country. And human-rights advocate Randall Robinson, after spending time on the American hospital ship where Haitian refugees are being questioned, declared the immigration process a sham. So far only 52 of the 289 refugees interviewed at sea have been granted refugee status...
Eisenhower stayed behind, alone, as his commanders rushed out to transmit the order that commenced Operation Overlord, the invasion of Western Europe. His own duty was done for the day. He went down to a pier in Portsmouth to watch British soldiers board their landing craft. The biggest fleet in history -- 59 convoys strung over 100 miles, led by six battleships, 22 cruisers and 93 destroyers -- set sail toward the beaches of Normandy between 60 and 100 miles away...
...computer networks may be no more ready than the TV networks to handle the freight of the information superhighway. Today's personal computers are too low-powered -- and the modems that connect them to the phone lines too slow -- to transmit and process video signals in real time, as they are broadcast. Even if everybody were to replace their PCs with the new, more powerful models coming into the market, someone would still have to build an electronic highway fast and wide enough to carry the traffic...