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...ENTERING ITS FINAL LANDING APPROACH AT J.F.K. recently when it suddenly banked wildly to the left, nearly causing a crash before the crew got things under control. Seems that the airliner's electronic flight controls went wacky when somebody in first class turned on his portable CD player. Experts at NASA, the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration have concluded that stray electronic emissions from CD players, cellular phones, radios, electronic games and even portable computers can interfere with flight controls during takeoffs and landings. New, more sternly worded warnings may be in the offing...
...BEEN THE Year of the Woman, but musically we're still in the era of the Dead White Male. Which is why the Bay Area-based WOMEN'S PHILHARMONIC, an all-female ensemble conducted by Jo Ann Falletta, is important in our collective consciousness-raising. On an eponymous new CD (Koch Classics), the group unearths a splendid Overture by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (Felix's sister). But the real pleasures are in the Concertino for Harp and Orchestra by Germaine Tailleferre, perhaps the least known of Les Six, and in two pieces by Lili Boulanger, Nadia's sister. Boulanger...
ANYONE WHO OWNS THE USUAL cumbersome assortment of home-entertainment gadgets -- CD players, game-playing computers, Cable TVs, videodiscs, and VCRs -- will immediately appreciate why the consumer-electronics industry is panting after something called the "universal box." What that box should do is act as an electronic one-stop shopping center, unifying all the different functions, . from cable to highly sophisticated interactive games, in one place with one set of controls. What has prevented such a box from being produced commercially is the wildly proliferating assortment of electronic gadgetry, all of it clever but not always compatible...
...stage in Las Vegas the flamboyant Hawkins unveiled what he calls his Interactive Multiplayer. On a mammoth projection screen, the machine had spheres bouncing, rectangles spinning and facial images twisting in full motion, while Hawkins explained that it is a VCR, slide projector, king-size Game Boy machine, CD-interactive box and laser disc video player all wrapped into one package. Hawkins says there are Multiplayer applications on the drawing board that can turn the television set into a magic monitor straight out of a Star Trek episode. Suppose you turn on L.A. Law late, and you want to know...
University Librarian Richard DeGennaro,explaining the plan, said yesterday that Gov Docshas a severe shortage of space. He said additionalcomputers are required to handle an increase inuse of CD-ROM and that microfilm and microfichereaders are in short supply...