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...made where people make their calls ("I'm calling from the freeway! The chairlift! The beach!") as important as what they had to say. The concept behind the cellular telephone is to divide a geographical region into overlapping "cells," each assigned its own radio frequency. As callers travel from one telephone cell to another, a complex computer system automatically switches their call from one frequency to the next. And with a little luck, the party they're talking to gets switched at the same time...
Most likely to leave you hanging in suspense. Tonight's the final installment of a 34-episode Masterpiece Theater series, and the boss wants you to entertain clients. But no problem! That's why you -- and millions of other Americans -- bought the videocassette recorder with the one-month, eight- program calendar timer and standby one-touch record. Once you have mastered the owner's manual, a lifetime task for some, you just shove in a tape and press a few dozen buttons. What could go wrong...
Worst and Best Brews. Lites were everywhere, but one unfortunate trend started with California's surfers, who for some reason favored a pale yellow liquid in a clear, long-neck bottle. Thin and acrid, Mexico's Corona Extra soared to second place among U.S. imports (after old favorite Heineken). What could connoisseurs do? Well, many of them reached for a real beer produced by one of America's feisty young microbreweries, from California's tangy Sierra Nevada to the malty Samuel Adams Boston Lager...
...about food as much as eating it. About 700 cookbooks are spawned in the U.S. each year, now including several dozen devoted to the ever developing craft of microwaving. Is there no limit to their writers' ingenuity? Apparently not: witness the publication last October of Manifold Destiny. Subtitled The One! The Only! Guide to Cooking on Your Car Engine, this ho-ho-ho paperback, by Chris Maynard and Bill Scheller, contains recipes for 36 dishes, including Lead Foot Stuffed Cabbage (cooking distance: 55 miles), that can be heated on a V-8 while the auto is in motion...
Most Overworked Employees. Under straw boss Michael Eisner, the Disney characters Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Snow White and the rest of the gang toiled overtime to plug everything from telephones to hamburgers to Chevrolets. When asked where he would take a vacation, if he ever gets one, Mickey replied, "Anywhere but Orlando...