Abject beg: it's easier for the 'droid to act on each item separately, do please request 1-by-1. 8-7-95. NYPaper: "A Cyberspace Front in a Multicultural War: Finding alternatives to a world where only English is typed." With the explosion of worldwide interest in the Internet, the dominance of English, stemming from the network's beginnings in the United States, has become a sensitive matter. A fear is that English, already the international language of business and science, is becoming the lingua franca of the computer world as well, further casting other languages in the shade. And some countries, already unhappy with the encroachment of American culture are worried that their cultures will be further eroded by an American dominance in cyberspace. A consortium of American computer companies has developed a universal digital code known as Unicode to allow computers to represent the letters and characters of virtually all the world's languages. SEZ_who "Digital Commerce: 2 plans for watermarks, which can bind proof of authorship to electronic works." Denise Caruso's column. As information becomes currency in the global economy, that so-called digital watermark technologies are beginning to appear. As with their paper and broadcast counterparts, the concept behind digital watermarks is to provide a secure means to certify the origin, ownership and authenticity of digital works. And by doing so, they can provide the first line of defense against piracy of digital media like music, photographs, film, words and video games. MUN_due "Windows 95's Big Value May Be as a Lure to Network System." Is Windows 95 a decoy? For all the attention being paid to the Aug. 24 introduction of the Microsoft Corporation's updated personal computer operating system, some experts think the software's true strategic value to Microsoft is not the few billion dollars in sales it is expected to bring to the company over the next few years. Instead, the long-term value may lie in luring customers and software developers into adopting the company's other operating system: Windows NT, for corporate computer networks. COY_ote "Selling Virtual Reality, in Indiana: The owners were shocked by how few understood the technology." "Seeing the potential for educating had an incredible impact on me," said John Hammond, an Indianapolis businessman who stumbled on Virtually Yours when he and his son went to the shopping center for pizza. Mr. Hammond wants Virtually Yours to supply expertise and equipment to Sunship Ministries, a group of Christian business executives developing a design for a school, hospital and church complex suited for missionary work in developing countries. Mr. Hammond sees virtual reality as a marketing tool for getting developing countries to welcome them; he sees programs re-creating Bible stories as a powerful tool for preaching to nonreaders. "You could let people interact with a virtual Jesus," Mr. Hammond said. GIT_rel "Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bonb." [Book review] In the author's view the story of the hydrogen bomb is only secondarily a technological one. What mainly drove American physicists to design the more powerful bomb was the news that the Soviet Union possessed an atom bomb. And the reason the Russians had achieved the bomb was mainly spying, Mr. Rhodes insists. So his story of the H-bomb is not so much technology as the interaction of politics, diplomacy, war, espionage, theoretical and practical physics and paranoia. JOX_onu