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Cable operators see telecommunications as just another service offered on their new networks. These high-capacity systems could provide 300 or more channels in the future. In December, Time Warner (the parent company of TIME magazine) launched the nation's first 150-channel cable system. Located in the New York City borough of Queens, the 1,800-mile fiber network includes 50 channels of movies and is capable of providing interactive television. Time Warner is also planning to use extra channels on the Queens system to test a new portable phone service that could greatly expand the use of mobile...
Over the years, researchers have discovered that the DNA that makes up the 46 chromosomes in the human cell is not as stable as once thought. Mutations in DNA have long been known to occur, but they usually involve relatively small changes in genetic material. For example, between parent and child, there may be a switch in the sequence of nucleotide bases that are the building blocks of DNA. Sometimes an entire gene can jump to another place on a chromosome. "But you don't usually see a big increase in the absolute number of bases within a single gene...
Nathaniel Askia, executive director of FIRST,Inc., a non-profit drug rehabilitation programwhich serves as Gang Peace's parent organization,says that Gang Peace has been able to mediatebetween gangs by stepping into disputes andraising the question: "Is this worth dying...
...weekly whose parent company also owns the National Enquirer and Weekly World News, that may be a distinction akin to being the grande dame of the whorehouse. In this week's issue, the Star (circ. 3.2 million) purports to describe the bedroom romps of Kirstie Alley ("Kirstie Alley: I Lured Men by Promising 3-in-a-Bed with Mimi Rogers") and the psychological torments of Julie Andrews ("Julie Andrews: Sound of Music Drove Me to Shrink"). For many readers, tabloids are nothing more than the print equivalent of candy bars -- fun but insubstantial. But when it comes to his cover...
...idea of women's independence, questioning the bond between parent and child and sexual permissiveness were rather risque themes for Ibsen's original audience. They are not so startling today, but his eternal, humanistic messages, like themes in all great works of art, maintain immediacy over time...