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Today, Hyflux is one of the hottest firms in the Asian water market, and under Lum's leadership it has scored a number of R.-and-D. breakthroughs. In the 1990s, the company developed an ultrafine membrane filter (pictured above) that is used in all the company's major products. More recently, Hyflux, in association with a U.S. group, began manufacturing a condensing device called the Dragonfly, which produces potable water by extracting moisture from air--and could change the way water-scarce countries meet their daily water needs. There are some drawbacks: the surrounding air must have at least...
...Like Gibson, but 92 years before him, Olcott uses a blue filter for the Holy Thursday night scenes in Gethsemane. The Passion section, which consumes the last 14 minutes, has no more juice than the rest of the film. Back then, of course, directors didn't have access to the fake-blood squibs and other effects of today's gore artists. (The blood Mel used was fake, wasn't it?) Remember, too, that in 1912 film was in its infancy; that D.W. Griffith and others were still creating the medium's visual vocabulary and sentence structure; and that, for most...
...there any easy way to stop spim? All IM programs give you the blunt option of blocking individual users (known as "bozo filters") or receiving IMs only from people on your contact lists. And all the services can identify and block some spim before it reaches your screen. But only ICQ, a popular IM program available at icq.com, lets you filter messages more selectively by blocking all Web links (most porn spim have links in them) or certain offensive words. You can even block any bulk IMs that were sent to several users simultaneously. None of these moves will totally...
...Fort Wayne, Indiana, who says he gets at least one spim a day on his computer. "With e-mail, you just go click, click, click, delete." Is there any easy way to stop spim? All IM programs give you the blunt option of blocking individual users (known as "bozo filters") or receiving instant messages only from people on your contact lists. And all the services can identify and block some spim before it reaches your screen. But only ICQ, a popular IM program available at icq.com, lets you filter messages more selectively by blocking all Web links (most porn spim...
Living in a city, you learn to filter out background noise. There’s a constant din of cars passing, doors closing, planes passing, computers humming. We dorm dwellers are especially adept at tuning it out. Richard Yates has a great passage about the sound of the city in a story called “Oh, Joseph, I’m So Tired.” He writes that all the “little sounds add up and come together in a kind of hum. But it’s so faint—so very, very faint?...