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...marked the end of Juan Manuel Retegui's career. Until then, 1,500 trucks a day would pass through the border's vast customs complex, with its long rows of loading bays and warehouses. Retegui and his 1,275 fellow agents, inspectors and clerks thrived on the red tape generated by $1 billion worth of trade a year. "Lines of trucks would stretch up the road," said Retegui. "Shops and bars were packed with people...
...music lover can tell you, the trouble with sound systems is that they have this unfortunate tendency to become suddenly obsolete. Remember the eight-track tape? The LP? Just when you think it's safe to settle on one system, the electronics industry changes the rules...
Sony fired the first shot last October when it unleashed the MiniDisc player, a $750 gadget that plays or records music on a 2 1/2-in.-sq. disc. Philips returned the fire the next month with the digital-compact-cassette (DCC) player, a $799 home tape deck that can use a new type of digital cartridge as well as old-style cassettes. Now Sony is introducing yet another model: a $1,000 home MiniDisc player and recorder that will hit stores in April...
...ruled out. Every electrical device creates a certain amount of radiation. Portable phones, remote-control toys and other radio transmitters emit signals that can carry for miles, and their use on planes has long been banned. But most airlines still let passengers use cassette players, tape recorders and laptop computers, which make far less electromagnetic noise...
...information was restored early yesterday morning from backup tape drivers. However, any work done by students on HUSC 10, one of the system networks, between 6 a.m. Friday and the crash on Saturday afternoon was lost...