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Today: Cloudy with rain or snow likely. High near 40. Wind becoming northeast 10 to 20 mph. Tonight: A chance of snow early, then remaining mostly cloudy. Low 20 to 25. Tomorrow: Cloudy. A chance of snow during the afternoon. High around...
...Different World. Despite a misfire last fall with Chicken Soup, the duo are as hot as TV producers get. CBS even talked to them in December about taking over the network's programming division. (The negotiations fell through.) Perhaps because of their clout, Grand has been given a near indestructible time period: the half-hour following Cheers on NBC's powerful Thursday-night schedule. That means Grand is probably in for the long haul -- good, bad or indifferent...
That an operation as heavily computerized as AT&T's could have maintained such a reputation is a near miracle. To experts who track technological mishaps, the past decade reads like an unending parade of computer disasters, ranging from the humiliating bugs that delayed one space-shuttle launch after another to the Belgian stock-exchange computers that collapsed under the rush of sell orders during last October's minicrash. Computerized elevator doors have shut unexpectedly. Factory robots have started without warning, killing workers. A misprogrammed medical X-ray machine delivered fatal doses of radiation to at least three cancer patients...
...poet named Benjamin Franklin Taylor caught both the metaphysics and, unintentionally, the comedy when he wrote this rhapsody to the phone: "The far is near. Our feeblest whispers fly/ Where cannon falter, thunders faint and die./ Your little song the telephone can float/ As free of fetters as a bluebird's note...
...area of the crash is near Oyster Bay Harbor on the north shore of Long Island, just south of the Sagamore Hill National Historic Site, home of President Theodore Roosevelt. It is a isolated, wooded area of expensive homes...