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...Keep careful records of your invention and record every step of its inception. Describe and diagram every aspect and modification. It may not be necessary to build a test model, but check with someone at the patent office to see whether one is needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Right Way To Obtain A Patent | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

Frustration with the Palm Beach ballot had begun to go public even before the polls closed. At the Lucerne Point residence community, poll workers were so overwhelmed by complaints that they had to draw a diagram showing where each ticket's punch hole was located. Theresa LePore, the Palm Beach County election supervisor who had signed off on the ballot design, soon arranged for a flyer to be distributed at polling places around the county that would help voters decipher it. LePore, a Democrat, told reporters that day that she had favored the design partly because it permitted larger type...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2000: Eye Of The Storm | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

...began by ordering a Panasonic ShowStopper ($800), which comes with ReplayTV built in. Despite having an installation diagram that looks like a Jackson Pollock mural, the ShowStopper was surprisingly quick and easy to set up. If your TV doesn't have those red-white-yellow AV inputs (mine doesn't), you'll have to route it through something that does, like a VCR. Once your DVR is up and running, you plug it into a phone jack, so that it can download the week's program listings. (ReplayTV automatically makes a short phone call every morning at around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Play It Again, Lev | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

...straightforward: stars and galaxies twinkle and shimmer because turbulent pockets of air act as weak, light-distorting lenses (heat rising from a car's hood or an asphalt parking lot causes a similar effect). With adaptive optics, though, a computer can measure the shimmer and cancel it out (see diagram...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beyond Hubble | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

...Frustration with the Palm Beach ballot had begun to go public even before the polls closed. At the Lucerne Point residence community, poll workers were so overwhelmed by complaints that they had to draw a diagram showing where each ticket's punch hole was located. Theresa LePore, the Palm Beach County election supervisor who had signed off on the ballot design, soon arranged for a flyer to be distributed at polling places around the county that would help voters decipher it. LePore, a Democrat, told reporters that day that she had favored the design partly because it permitted larger type...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Eye of the Storm | 11/12/2000 | See Source »

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