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Before investing in a treatment device, which ranges from $30 for a simple filter to $850 for a reverse-osmosis system, check that it is certified effective by NSF. Above all, remember that home devices need plenty of maintenance. If they are not cleaned or their filters are not replaced regularly, they put back into your water the very pollutants they removed, and they wind up a health hazard themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Protect Yourself | 11/15/1993 | See Source »

...question is when the document's gentlesuggestions will filter back to Buell and Dean ofthe Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles in the form of solidproposals...

Author: By Anna D. Wilde, | Title: Faculty Mulls Concentration Report | 10/29/1993 | See Source »

...film won the 1954 Oscar award for Best Foreign Film. In addition to suberb acting. "La Strada" is visually stunning. Fellini uses warm sepia-washed black and white film throughout, and alternates between a soft and hard focus lense filter. Very rarely does he use either pure black or white. In a Bergmanesque fashion, he places the camera strategically to strengthen the film's allegorical strains. Gelsomina is always seen from slightly above, as if she were being watched by a guardian angel. During an Easter parade the camera looks upwards, circling around the massive crosses to emphasize their grandeur...

Author: By Irit Kleiman, | Title: Fine Fellini Flick | 10/21/1993 | See Source »

...front of the gaudy, gilt Buddhist temple we stopped, and approached a crowd of people, children mostly, who were squatting around a circular, white, plastic tub. Many small hands swirled in the tub's water. Each hand held a round, metal loop that had white filter paper stretched across its diameter. Hand and metal-paper extension followed swarms of multi-sized goldfish darting around the tub. Each hand and its loop was eager to win a fish by successfully scooping it out of the tub with the water-weakened paper net. Wise hands targeted the large schools of pinky-sized...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From Expos 17, October 1990: | 10/21/1993 | See Source »

Eventually, Wilkinson hopes, their efforts will"filter up" to those who lead the classes and runthe departments. But, he concedes, it is a gradualprocess...

Author: By Anna D. Wilde, | Title: Harvard Expos: Isolated, Ignored? | 10/20/1993 | See Source »

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