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Federal regulators sent down a decision today that will help usher in a new era of personal communications devices, including pocket phones that are far cheaper than the current cellular devices. The Federal Communications Commission revised its strategy for how it would split up the publicly owned radio spectrum, making the business potentially more lucrative--and thus more attractive to service providers--and opening up the business to new competition. "People will be able to afford these things for nonbusiness purposes," says TIME Washington correspondent Suneel Ratan. "You won't be looking at $600-a-month cellular-phone bills anymore...
Star Trek ended its final season last week and the closing down of the USS Enterprise seemed as fitting a way as any to usher out the Class of 1994. Hardly a trekkie, I am nevertheless, quite easily seduced by the fantastic, especially if the temptress comes equipped with transporter beams or with phasers set on stun. So the ending of Star Trek was an event for me, something that meritted a mental paper clip, something to plan a day around. It caught me at the right time, too. I had finished my final exam in Matter in the Universe...
...without the big Chicagoan. That may be overstating it. In the event of his ouster, Florida's Sam Gibbons becomes the acting chairman and would be expected to work with three committee members -- New York's Charles Rangel and California's Robert Matsui and Pete Stark -- to try to usher Rosty's vision through Ways and Means. Clinton no doubt hopes that between them, they are up to Rostenkowski...
Intrigued by Sandel's words, Clinton asked the White House usher for a pen so he could take notes on the back of his menu...
...gone. A generation after Stokes' breakthrough, black mayors are no longer a novelty, and the high hopes that their arrival would usher in a new era of urban revival have long since faded. Hobbled by age, ill health and ! frustration, three of the longest-serving black mayors -- L.A.'s Tom Bradley, Detroit's Coleman Young and Atlanta's Maynard Jackson -- have declined to seek re-election. Several cities where black mayors once reigned -- Chicago, Philadelphia and Los Angeles -- have reverted to white control, and New York City may be about to join them. But the big turnover at city hall...