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Prizes donated by local businesses will beawarded to the students who raise the most money,with the biggest money-raiser receiving aMacintosh SE personal computer. Other incentivesinclude a 20-inch stereo color television and astereo VCR...

Author: By Tara H. Arden-smith, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Boston Students Walk for Hunger | 11/2/1992 | See Source »

Schwelling said the group hopes to obtain a permanent meeting place and furnish it with a grill, pool table, pinball machine, large-screen TV, VCR and stereo...

Author: By Asya M. Muchnick, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Students Form New Co-Ed Social Club | 10/20/1992 | See Source »

...standard for the discs, although Kodak is first to offer the product. What the company envisions is a future in which devices that play Photo CDs -- which also double as music CD players -- have become standard equipment in home entertainment centers, alongside the stereo, the TV and the VCR. Kodak pictures families gathered in living rooms to see photos displayed on TV screens -- and, eventually, on high-resolution HDTV...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can You Picture This? | 8/24/1992 | See Source »

...Good Morning America, Casper the talking (and listening) computer was everything one would expect of a digital servant -- friendly, eager to please but slightly hard of hearing. Morning host Joan Lunden, demonstrating Casper's capabilities on an Apple Macintosh computer, was able to persuade the system to program her VCR simply by talking into a microphone -- although she had to repeat "Casper, accept program!" several times before the machine finally got the message. When the technology is perfected, say Apple executives, computers will be able to act on their human masters' every command, whether it be to pay the phone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Machines Are Listening | 8/10/1992 | See Source »

Conceptually, a how-to video for the homeless smacks of a Saturday Night Live sketch gone horribly tasteless. Only those fortunate enough to wander into a vcr-equipped shelter will ever view the tape. Moreover, advocates for the homeless argue that the video signals a dangerous complacency in tackling the issues of hunger and poverty. But to her critics Dunlap has one reply: "Get real!" The video, she insists, acknowledges a serious public health issue and aims to save lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Frugal Gourmet | 6/22/1992 | See Source »

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