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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movies are colorized. But instead of assigning colors to each pixel, the computer assigns each dot a number according to how light or dark it is. Thus on a scale of one to ten, a dark smudge or scratch might be assigned a nine or ten, while a lighter stroke becomes a five or six. These numbers can then be manipulated to filter out "noise" and bring out hidden features in the text. For example, all the pixels with high numbers can be changed to zeros to make them disappear, while the lighter pixels representing parts of actual letters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: When The Dead Are Revived | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

...years, bones take longer to knit, wounds to heal and infections to clear up. Ultimately, says Cassel, the difference is that a "healthy young person can lose a lung, a kidney and do fine. And so too an old person can be doing fine, but then he has a stroke, a heart attack, whatever. Because of the stress, it's much more likely that all the major organs will go one after the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Older - But Coming on Strong | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

...stroke last week, First Boston lost its takeover titans to two lures: greater freedom and, though each already makes about $6 million a year, bigger rewards. Wasserstein, 40, and Perella, 46, along with high-ranking Colleagues Charles Ward, 35, and William Lambert, 41, abruptly quit First Boston to start a rival firm. Adding to their employer's misery, they immediately began recruiting First Boston co-workers and clients. Their departure, while certainly the most dramatic Wall Street split in years, is only one episode in a broader upheaval and personnel shuffle taking place on the Street. In the wake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Way Too Hot to Hold | 2/15/1988 | See Source »

...million, six-year U.S. study, conducted by Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, covered 22,071 male physicians, ages 40 to 84, with no ) history of prior heart disease or stroke, for an average of 4.8 years. Half the group took a 325-mg tablet of aspirin every other day, the lowest dose the researchers considered both safe and effective; the other half received a placebo. This past December a board of medical experts monitoring the study decided that the results were "sufficiently compelling," as Yale Cardiologist Lawrence Cohen put it, to interrupt the study...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Aspirin: The Cardiologist's Dream? | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

Smith, who won the Eastern championships in both the 50 and 100-m last year's was matched stroke for stroke by Suhs. In the end, though, it was the champion Smith who touched first in both events...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women Sink B.U. | 1/20/1988 | See Source »

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