Word: analogously
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...deployed our vast arsenal, and butchered at least a million of them. We gauged progress by piles of twisted corpses?the grim "body count." Yet the Vietnamese continued to fight. After the war, Colonel Harry G. Summers Jr. crowed to a communist officer, "We won every battle." Replied his analog: "That may be true, but it's irrelevant...
...hearing aids work is far more important than how they look. Traditional analog aids are technologically the simplest--and the least expensive. They enable the user to adjust the volume of incoming sounds. The newer, programmable analog aids are pricier, but they can be digitally programmed--and reprogrammed as hearing loss progresses--to accommodate individual patterns of hearing loss as well as different listening environments. Fully digital aids offer the greatest flexibility and precision. But the more expensive digitals are not necessarily better for everyone. "Digital aids have gotten a lot of press, but there's little hard research that...
When you finally get your mammogram, chances are, you won't be paying too much attention to the equipment. But there's a quiet revolution going on in the technology of mammography, as analog systems make way for various digital techniques. The promise of digital mammography is that it will give doctors a more detailed picture of breast tissue--and thus improve on their ability to pick out tiny abnormalities. Physicians are beginning to appreciate the added control the technology offers but agree that the procedure is not quite ready to replace film mammography--the gold standard. This view...
...software filters that will allow doctors to "subtract" out healthy tissue and show only tiny tumors. "There are a lot of exciting possibilities down the road," says Dr. Etta Pisano of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who will be heading up a large study comparing analog and digital mammography later this year. "The technology is still in its infancy...
...wife Hillary Rodham Clinton made her first successful run for public office. Finally, the presidential campaign that everyone thought was boring suddenly became all too interesting. The election ran aground in Florida, its outcome simply too close to call, a digital-photo-finish that defeated the state's analog voting equipment (and meanwhile added a 1950s term, punch-card "chad," to our lexicon). The cable-TV pundits made their dependable racket and protesters filled the South Florida streets, but as the votes were recounted and Gore contested Bush's apparent victory, the public remained admirably patient--content to let this...