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...assigns each dot a number according to how light or dark it is. Thus on a scale of one to ten, a dark smudge or scratch might be assigned a nine or ten, while a lighter stroke becomes a five or six. These numbers can then be manipulated to filter out "noise" and bring out hidden features in the text. For example, all the pixels with high numbers can be changed to zeros to make them disappear, while the lighter pixels representing parts of actual letters can be darkened by boosting their values from five...
...shoot, why not? You spend a third of your life in bed, and they last." The sheer social inequity of their gilded circumstances gnaws away at some. Declares Paul Haible of San Francisco, who inherited $1 million: "I'm still confronted with people sleeping in the streets. Money may filter that out, but it's not a shelter...
...tiny devices, which fit completely inside the President's ear canals, contain sophisticated circuitry that allows Reagan to control their volume and eliminate telephone feedback by pressing buttons on the remote unit. The $1,900 mini-aids have an improved "noise suppression" feature that can filter out annoying background distractions -- like shouted questions from the press corps...
...West Pennsylvania Water Co., which serves 500,000 people, was able to reopen its river intake at Becks Run by midweek, though it had to filter the diluted oil through ten times the usual amount of activated carbon. But other water systems still reported critical shortages. Warned Allegheny County Commissioner Tom Foerster: "We're still a long way from being out of this situation. If people go back to using water as they usually do, the system will break down...
...afraid that the news broadcasts look too much alike could take a radically simple step. Let the anchorman say, "In Seattle, Candidate Dukakis attacked Reagan's foreign policy," then let the man speak for himself. Before long, presidential candidates might become as familiar as the television reporters who filter the news we are told about, and sometimes...