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...capabilities are a little overblown. For instance, you don't get an electronic programming guide that helps you sift through the next week's worth of digital cable programming. However, if you already know when your shows come on, you can program them in rather easily by entering dates and times to start and stop recording...
...preoccupied with my own life, my own affairs." He became a successful painter, an occasional novelist and human rights activist. "But some time after the death of my father," the author admits, "I realized that I had not truly known him, or his tradition." Halter began to sift through the evidence of World War II, then ransacked ancient volumes, diaries and letters, scouring Europe and the Middle East in a frantic attempt to recover the past: "After six years, I found that the story of my people fills a great library. I have simply added one more book." But what...
...first feature, which is followed by three to six more "unmissable" films, most of which will never get to a U.S. multiplex. We slog to press conferences and roundtable luncheons with the filmmakers. With a mountain of multilingual booklets and press releases clogging our mailboxes, we sift through more documents than the 9/11 Commission. Then we rush to our computers to bat out stories like this for magazines, newspapers and websites around the world...
...week that consumer spending in March tumbled .5%, compared with the same period last year. Reason: the computer troubles delayed payment on $6.7 billion in tax refunds that people would have otherwise received and probably spent. At fault is the most expensive and sophisticated computer system ever used to sift through America's tax returns: eleven Sperry 1100/84 machines. Each computer has 8 million characters of memory and can perform up to 8 million operations a second...
Relatives often need time to sift through intense feelings and to say a long goodbye. Last September the family of Jill Rudolph, 41, of Toledo, Ohio, voted 5 to 3 to remove her feeding tube. She had been in a persistent vegetative state since May, when she suffered multiple strokes. Her mother Joyce Moran voted against removal. Years ago, Moran's brother-in-law had needed six months to emerge from a coma; what if Rudolph needed that time too? The family compromised, agreeing not to take immediate action. But by November, Moran had gone through an intense period...