Word: filter
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...will provide informal mediation and advice to parties in a disagreement, but will lack the authority to impose mediated solutions. While the exact parameters of this potentially vast role remain undefined, there is a danger that direct communication between students, employees and the administration may be hindered by the filter of the ombudsman’s office...
...hydrogen are equally scarce. Researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology have been working on the first problem, automakers on the second. The Tokyo group has developed a way to "crack" hydrogen, using a mesh of thin carbon fibers studded with molecules of a nickel compound. The filter breaks down natural gas into carbon and hydrogen that is pure enough for use in fuel cells...
...There's iChat (compatible with AOL Instant Messenger), in which conversations take place in little speech balloons. Sherlock 3 will find movies, flight times and Yellow Pages listings in a click or two without the hassle of actually getting on the Internet. And there's a great new spam filter in the e-mail program. If you're a Mac user who's been holding out on OS X, it could be time to play around with a furry feline. --By Chris Taylor
Media and the American Mind—I’ve really learned this summer the degree to which the media serves as a filter for the American public, sifting through the daily news and picking out and presenting to us those items that are of the utmost importance. That’s why, with all of the crises looming over our heads this summer, from violence in the Middle East to corporate corruption to the war against terror, it has been so helpful that the cable news channels have really zoned in and focused on the issue that...
...Internet cafes are licensed. Those that are officially approved are expected to spy on customers and report anyone who accesses banned sites. Although the Public Security Bureau has deployed a corps of Internet police to block surfers from offending websites, there's no way a few hundred officers can filter the whole Web and maintain blocks that stymie users for long. In less than three minutes, Chen is able to access a blocked Chinese news site, using a proxy server that cloaks his online movements. Next to him, a friend uses the same technique to get to a porn site...