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Most people worry about gunk in the air they breathe, but those bulky air filters that ceaselessly hum and whir can be just as irritating. Clearveil Corp. of Denver offers an alternative way to cleanse your home or office of airborne dust, bacteria, cat dander and cigarette smoke. The Jenn-Air SilentAir purifier ($229) is thin and light and, best of all, silent. Like other filters, it sends out negative ions to grab hold of the pollutants. Unlike other filters, it has a charged metal strip to lure them back in--no noisy fan or motor. It takes longer...
...homogenous culture evaporated, everything got niched out. Blacks watch sitcoms whites don't watch. Most parents have stopped trying to pretend they understand the songs their kids love. There are no "standards," in either sense of the term: no more songs that teens and grandmas simultaneously hum, no more starched codes of behavior...
...face is more handsome the less animated it is; unlike most movie stars, then, he is better looking in person than onscreen (in another movie era, he could have been a male ingenue, another Ronald Reagan). Put him in front of a camera, though, and his engine starts to hum. During a photo session, his publicist takes him aside and asks him to resist the urge to strike zany poses now that he is promoting a movie without any fart jokes...
...busy schedule the way people do nowadays. Not a hobby baby. It would take a village to raise this child--about 68 people, in other words: walkers, feeders, scrapers, dressers, bouncers and maybe the Mormon Tabernacle Choir to come in for an hour or two in the evening and hum...
...decades, as well as the possibility of a string of American budget surpluses unmatched since the Roaring Twenties--and the beginnings of a vigorous debate about whether this warrants a total overhaul of the U.S. tax code. In combination--or conflict--these forces make 1998 look anything but ho-hum and a lot more like the start of a journey into an unexplored world...