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...line noise that makes cellular telephoning a chore. The same technology is being used by Government agencies involved in surveillance and intelligence gathering to improve the performance of eavesdropping devices. Active Noise and Vibration Technologies of Phoenix makes antinoise speakers for the headrests of helicopters, trucks and airplanes to surround passengers with zones of silence. Soon, lawn mowers and snow-blowers may be electronically muzzled to reduce suburban din. And, thanks to 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Fighting Noise with Antinoise | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

...Virtually every question you could imagine about the structure of the curriculum and the way it is staffed and all the decisions that surround it are going to be affected in one way or another by this," says Spence...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Faculty Lays the Groundwork for Expansion | 10/20/1989 | See Source »

Perhaps, the dark age is too positive. Perhaps, we're in the great abyss. The wastelands of baseball surround us on every side and attack us at all corners. Sure, April's a cruel month, but what about the rest of spring and summer. Just ask anyone who follows the Yankees...

Author: By Christine Dimino, | Title: Baseball Goes Home Again | 10/17/1989 | See Source »

Trash TV: The unseemly scandal alleged to surround the Society of Black Professional Entrepreneurs and its ex-president, Harvard Law student Kevin T. Watkins, appears to have caught the caught the eye of one of the nation's leading purveyors of infotainment. A scout for the syndicated tabloid-style TV show Inside Edition attended Watkins' arraignment Thursday on charges of rape and assault and battery...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reporter's Notebook | 10/14/1989 | See Source »

...voice is phenomenal, her stage presence at once imposing and inviting. Pfeiffer gives to Suzie Diamond such a joyous, sultry energy that all who listen feel the spirit of the music surround and lift them. They actually believe and wish all those old torch songs to be true. Suzie's version of "Machine' Whoopee" on top of Jack's piano is straight out of Hollywood history and perfectly executed...

Author: By Stephen J. Newman, | Title: Torch Song Trio | 10/13/1989 | See Source »

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