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...morning, the Jerusalem Post, ran an suprising logo above its masthead: a gas mask. "Gasmask information, Page 2," read the words around a graphic of what looked like a vintage World War I gas mask...
...tools needed to create the experience. The device that converts hand motions into signals the computer can understand is called the DataGlove. Optic fibers sewn onto the fingers are supposed to detect the slightest movement of the digits. A head-mounted display that looks like an oversize skin-diving mask is called the EyePhone. Built-in headphones provide stereo sound, and a pair of liquid-crystal-display screens creates stereoscopic images that give the illusion of three dimensions. Both glove and headset are equipped with electromagnetic sensors that track changes in position and orientation. For computer power, the equipment...
...citizens. Residents were dismayed to learn that their air-raid shelters would prove useless, since heavier-than-air poison gas seeps into underground shelters and lingers there. Many were incredulous when an expert explained that a cloth soaked in water and baking soda could serve as a makeshift breathing mask...
...which a woman sarcastically intones, "Hey, call it what it really is: the Hayden initiative. You know -- Tom Hayden." The forces arrayed against Big Green say their funding comes from California agricultural, chemical and business sources. But the proposal's supporters charge that pesticide companies are trying to mask their contributions behind ambiguously named front groups. Last week Los Angeles city attorney James Hahn filed suit against one anti-Big Green group, alleging that it violated a new law requiring disclosure of funding sources in political...
Scrambling to control the damage, Administration officials tried to mask that miscalculation by claiming that the Democrats had reneged on the bargain. But Gephardt told Bush at a White House meeting Tuesday that not only had there never been a deal but that Darman had not presented a full proposal either. As Panetta said later, "We did not pledge that every time the Republicans slit their wrists we would slit ours...