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...chart accompanying our report on water-purification filters "Comparing the Top Systems" [HEALTH, June 10] mistakenly listed its source as Consumer Reports. The chart does not reflect results of any Consumer Reports tests, and the headline should have stated clearly that the filters listed are the top-selling systems, not the top-ranking ones as determined by testing. Also, the stock number and pricing for Amway's primary water-filter model for home use were incorrect. The model is number E84, selling for $297 at suggested retail and requiring a $56 faucet-installation...
...audience of 40 Russians wired to a "perception analyzer," an instrument often used in the U.S. Audiences have their hands on dials and are asked to move them in different directions to indicate their degree of interest and approval of what they are seeing and hearing. An electronically produced chart records their reactions...
...With a chart for illustration, Malone showed how he has reduced the Treasury's spending by 53 percent since his election just eight years ago. At the same time, he said, the Treasury has added programs to encourage banks to invest in their local communities, to help home buyers secure loans and to help families save for college...
Influential people are sometimes also powerful in the conventional sense. But in the organizational flow chart of American life, they are more likely to occupy some hard-to-fathom box off to the side. Dick Morris, the President's closely-attended-to political adviser, doesn't even have a formal title. And on the Supreme Court, it has been decades since the titular chief was the real power center. During the 1970s and early '80s, the years of Chief Justice Warren Burger, the court's magnetic field emanated from the direction of William Brennan, who figured out how to attract...
...band; and at 25 he won first prize in the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition. His subsequent career as a recording artist also met with early success--he is the first musician to have had his first three albums reach No. 1 on Billboard's traditional-jazz chart...