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The Information Superhighway: Status and Issues

Description: As the media devote increasing attention to the "information superhighway," many questions whether this latest high-tech creation is a fact, fantasy, or a distant future. The answer is one of perspective and expectations.
Date: December 2, 1994
Creator: Smith, Marcia S.
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Space Stations

Description: Congress continues to debate NASA's Europe, Japan, and Canada to build the plan to build a permanently occupied space station. They plan to provide station. Controversial since its inception in 1984, the space station, called Freedom for many years, was redesigned several times. Now it is tentatively called Alpha.
Date: February 21, 1995
Creator: Smith, Marcia S.
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V-Chip and TV Ratings: Helping Parents Supervise Their Children's Television Viewing

Description: To assist parents in supervising the television viewing habits of their children, Congress included a provision in the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-104) that television sets with screens 13 inches or larger sold in the United States be equipped with a "V-chip" to screen out objectionable programming. A V-chip is a computer chip that can detect program rating information that is transmitted with the television signal (broadcast or cable) and block the display of programs designated a… more
Date: April 14, 1998
Creator: Smith, Marcia S.
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