Word: louds
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There are two ways to generate an antinoise wave. The analog approach, first developed in the 1930s using vacuum-tube technology, works something like a seesaw. A mechanism drives a loud speaker that pushes the air when incoming sound waves rise and pulls it back when the sound waves fall. Alternatively, antinoise waves can be created digitally, using a signal 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...
...Looking at our schedule, it's definitely the biggest game for Minnesota fans," Ferguson says. "We are already organizing our support for the game. We are going to be loud, obnoxious, and intimidating. We're going to do anything to help the Gophers win the game and exact some revenge...
...many legal experts say that trend has sparked a positive reaction in recent years. They say calls for more private pro bono work are growing increasingly loud, even if the voices are predominantly from an older generation of lawyers...
More likely than not, the new policy will never result in criminal charges. Thornburgh is probably just using the statute to deter loud-mouthers form getting too friendly with the press...
Rick Atkinson's epic of West Point's class of '66 is marked by such piercing incidents. A Washington Post reporter, he begins by following some 600 freshmen, ruddy and damp in their new gray wool uniforms. Loud harassment is the order of the day ("Pull that neck in, mister. You call that bracing?"). It has been this way since Thomas Jefferson founded the academy in 1802, and in the crowd of intimidated cadets the figures tend to blur -- until destiny selects them for service in Viet...