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...contrast to a tuning fork which can produce only one pitch at one volume, Steim's seismograph works like a grand piano by harmonizing various signals from one source to create a more polished and rich composition...

Author: By Nicholas A. Nash, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Seismology Device Yields More Accuracy | 10/14/1997 | See Source »

...critical business question: Will consumers be willing to pay the regular downloading fees--45 [cents] to $1--for the convenience of cash on a chip? Merchants pay nothing, unlike with credit cards, where they fork over 2% to 6% of the transaction as a handling fee. In fact, a cashless society may be more beneficial to banks and merchants. Handling cash is time consuming, prone to error and poses security risks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEAVE YOUR CASH AT HOME | 10/13/1997 | See Source »

...Fresh Pond, simply go down Garden Street (the road between the Cambridge Common and the Admissions Office) and bear left at fork onto Concord Street Take a left onto Huron Avenue, the first major road that runs perpendicular into Concord. Follow Huron Avenue all the way down until you reach Route...

Author: By Chris W. Mcevoy, | Title: Fresh Ideas For Your Everyday Workout | 10/8/1997 | See Source »

WASHINGTON: It isn't just the government that's punishing smokers. The tobacco industry itself is now betting that the same addicts whose health problems roped it into a $368 billion legal settlement will fork over an additional 62 cents per pack to help keep cigarette makers in business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coughers to Fill Industry Coffers | 8/18/1997 | See Source »

...Fielder, the Yankees' gargantuan slugger. Indeed, Irabu is 6 ft. 3 in. and 240 lbs., wears a size 52 jacket and pants with a 40-in. waist. In his monthlong tour of the minors, where he made six starts, Irabu impressed his Yankee escorts with his fastball (high 90s), fork ball (high 80s) and fork. "He ate everything," said Arthur Richman, the 72-year-old club executive who accompanied Irabu at his stops in Florida, Connecticut, upstate New York and Ohio. "Steaks. Italian. Chinese. Yesterday I took him to the Second Avenue Deli, and he gulped down matzoh-ball soup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ORIENT EXPRESS | 7/21/1997 | See Source »

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