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SPEAK SOFTLY, AND UNPLUG YOUR LAPTOP. George Bush's peripatetic presidency is beginning to exhaust those who are supposed to cover his every move. The White House travel office notes a sharp decline in the number of reporters who automatically accompany Bush on his constant domestic tripping -- to speak at Republican fund raisers, plant trees and inspect natural disasters. For those who still follow the President wherever he may go, Los Angeles Times correspondent David Lauter has invented "The Poppy," an award bearing Bush's childhood nickname. It will eventually be bestowed upon the reporter who maintains the lowest ratio...
...first time since his trip to Bimini, Gary Hart will be a free man. Once the Iowa returns ensure his doom, Hart will be free to cruise the streets in a neighborhood near you. Mothers--warn your daughters. Donna Rice--unplug your phone...
...that customers lose the lifetime free repair warranties that come with rented Bell System phones. Thus, when a customer-owned telephone breaks after the expiration of the warranty, which can last anywhere from 30 to 90 days on units already installed, the hapless subscriber has little choice but to unplug the device and take it to his local telephone company office for servicing. If the telephone is one of the Bell System's early models that does not disconnect from the wall with a modular plug, the customer may have to pay an additional steep charge to have...
While the case brings to mind Karen Quinlan, the New Jersey woman whose parents asked doctors to unplug her respirator, there is a difference: Siebert is not comatose and conceivably, Hoyt contends, could decide the life-support question herself some day. Whatever the outcome, the tragedy is another reminder that society has failed to develop rules for the use of modern technology...
...foreign sales, network and local TV, videocassette deals and, increasingly, cable TV outlets as well. But all those may decline during a weak economy, James says, and sales to the new videodisc systems may not be important for at least a decade. So put the Mercedes in the garage, unplug the hot tub-and get out the handkerchiefs...