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...antinoise systems, submarines carrying nuclear warheads now run silent as well as deep. "Everywhere you hear noise, there's a business opportunity," says Gene Frantz, applications manager for digital signal processing at Texas Instruments. "We're at a stage of the technology where the first guy to the problem can be rich...
...fans and turbines, but cannot stop random or unexpected noises. Analog systems fight low, random noises but do it by eliminating all low-frequency sounds, good or bad. And none of the antinoise devices currently on the market are very good at canceling high- pitched squeals and whistles. The problem: calculating antiwaves for sounds higher than middle C requires more computing power than today's chips can provide. For now, the most cost-effective way to block those tones is still to stick your fingers in your ears...
Writing the cover story cleared up much of Wallis' uncertainty about feminism. Examining outdated images of women in old ads and studying reports from correspondents Scott Brown, Melissa Ludtke and Martha Smilgis proved how far women have come. Now, she says, "I have no problem saying, 'Yes, I am a feminist...
...turmoil at HHS is not the only problem Bush will face as he tries to satisfy both sides of the abortion debate. Last week the President spent a day campaigning for two pro-choice Republicans, Congresswomen Claudine Schneider of Rhode Island, who hopes to unseat Senator Claiborne Pell, and Lynn Martin of Illinois, who plans to run for the Senate. Then, as he flew back to Washington, he vetoed the budget bill for the District of Columbia because it contained a provision that would use city funds to pay for abortions for poor women. It was Bush's fourth abortion...
...marks the start of the high tourist season, and if tourists do not come back, neither will the islands. More than 10 million visitors came last year, leaving behind $7.3 billion. After Hugo, cancellations poured in, even for destinations not touched by the storm. "Part of our problem is fighting people's terrible knowledge of geography," says John Bell, executive vice president of the Caribbean Hotel Association. "There were groups dropping out of trips to Aruba and Barbados, which were hundreds of miles from Hugo's path." So even as an army of workers moved in, a phalanx of hoteliers...