Word: human
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aviation headset, made by Bose, a Framingham, Mass., manufacturer of hi-fi speakers, is one of the latest applications of antinoise, a surprising new technology that is changing the way people block unwanted sounds -- from the whine of electrical transformers to the rumble of internal- combustion engines -- while leaving human voices, alarm bells and other useful sounds untouched. The technology should have many uses: the American Medical Association estimates that more than 9 million U.S. workers are exposed to hazardous noise levels on the job. In some professions -- notably mining, shipbuilding, food processing and printing -- it is not unusual...
...processor to convert incoming sound waves into a stream of numbers. Given those numbers, computers can quickly calculate the frequency and amplitude of the mirror-image waves. Those specifications are then fed to a conventional speaker and broadcast into the air. Sounds that the system wants to preserve, like human voices, can be subtracted out in the beginning of the process and added back...
...movie brings homelessness home by presenting it not as a cause for charity but as a recognizable human misfortune, almost inevitable given the circumstances. Grant's direction is both sensitive and street-smart (filming was done in Pittsburgh). Daniels, though too fresh-faced as the blue-collar father, brings hot-tempered passion to the role. And Lahti, possibly the best actress in America working in TV (she won an Emmy nomination for her performance in the mini-series Amerika), is truly heartbreaking. She can convey both the despair lurking behind a brave comment to her husband and a pathetic...
...Republican candidates last month in Virginia, New Jersey and New York City, George Bush started sending out the word that the G.O.P. is big enough to accommodate supporters of abortion rights. But pro-choice job applicants will not find the same warm welcome at the Department of Health and Human Services, the agency with the heaviest responsibility for health care and family-policy issues. HHS Secretary Louis Sullivan has become a virtual figurehead, hemmed in by Administration pro- lifers who have made opposition to abortion a litmus test in hiring and policy decisions...
...says, "is to point out some of the problems that might arise with new technologies. Scientists should show us how these new technologies work. Then society, not scientists, should decide if it wants to use them. Scientists are not gods; they're just technicians. They're just human beings, with all the good and bad intentions of everyone else. If you criticize them at all, you're stopping the drive toward utopia. But there has to be both sides...