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...have found a way. At this month's electro-optics and international laser exhibition in San Francisco, they displayed the prototype of a flat-screen TV system that is less than one-eighth of an inch thick and may some day be hung on a wall like a pane of plate glass in an ordinary picture frame...
...secret of Westinghouse's magic pane lies in the relatively recent union of chemistry and electronics called thin-film technology. Using a masking technique somewhat like that used by artists in the silk-screen process, scientists can create thousands of tiny electronic components-transistors, capacitors, resistors, etc.-on a single flat surface called a "chip." Linked together in so-called integrated circuits, enough of these microscopic components can be included on a chip no larger than a postage stamp, and perform all the electronic functions of. say, a stereo amplifier, a hearing aid or even a pocket calculator...
...word of the window woes spread, suggestions began to flow to Hancock executives from all over the nation. A Cleveland man proposed boring tiny holes in each pane to equalize pressure inside and out. A Maryland convict advised Hancock to put boxes under each window to catch the glass fragments. One superstitious woman even told the insurance company to "sell the building," since every broken mirror-window represented seven years of bad luck-20,000 years of it in total. Instead, each flawed window has been temporarily replaced with sheets of plywood, leading Bostonians to nickname the building "the Plywood...
Workmen will meticulously knock out each of the building's 55-square-foot windows, as the entire pane cannot be removed in one piece. The total cost for installing the first set of windows was $6.9 million...
MAMA LEONE'S restaurant opened a month ago in a new building just off of Copley Square and within a blown window pane's distance from the new John Hancock building. Above the restaurant is a multi-leveled parking garage and beneath it the Mass Pike...