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...breakup of the Bell Telephone System more than seven years ago appeared to place the industry at the threshold of a quantum leap into the Information Age. But the telephone companies were legally barred from the computerized- data business. Last month U.S. District Court Judge Harold Greene brought the future closer by freeing the Baby Bells to use their phone lines to provide such services as electronic Yellow Pages and home shopping...
...boys to come over. Less than an hour out of town, she talks Louise into stopping at a raunchy bar, where she dances with a creep who then tries to rape her in the parking lot. The women are sympathetic enough characters by this time so that we leap over the hurdle many adventure movies present -- Why didn't they call the police? -- and rationalize what might be a cold-blooded murder as an act of self-defense. That way we can climb into that green Thunderbird, put down the roof and go along for the joyride...
...lack of professional skills accounts for the Ethiopians' comparatively lower income levels, but careful government planning has prevented the creation of ghettos. Instead, small clusters of Ethiopians live in dozens of towns, easing the process of integration. Even so, the leap from subsistence farming to suburbia can be wrenching, especially for the elderly. "The old ones pay the price," says Gad Ben-Ari, spokesman for the quasi-official Jewish Agency. "We can support them but I doubt they'll become Israelis." Eager to conform, the young reject traditional customs and cuisine while the village religious leaders, known as kessim, become...
...concept dates back to the late '70s, when some enterprising disco deejay played a disembodied bit of an old record over and over again to give it a funky new spin. That technique took a quantum leap when the first electronic samplers were introduced around 1980. Unlike synthesizers, which generate tones artificially, samplers record real sounds. Anything audible is eligible: prerecorded music, drumbeats, human voices, even ordinary noise like a slamming door. Samplers transform these sounds into digital codes, which in turn can be manipulated to produce melodies, rhythm tracks and complicated webs of sounds...
Though Gorbachev has reportedly expressed private worry about a brain drain that would leave too few educated citizens at home to build perestroika, emigration seems unlikely to take any great leap. Fyodor Burlatsky, a prime parliamentary advocate of the new law, estimates that 1.5 million people will leave for good during the first three years that the law is fully effective, not a major annual increase over the 450,000 expected to emigrate this year alone. Other estimates are that 2 million or more may leave quickly after the law takes full effect, but once they are gone, the outflow...