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Even many pain relievers contain caffeine. Anacin, for example, has 32 mg of caffeine in each tablet to counterbalance the drowsiness effect of pure aspirin, Weidner said...
...wall of the lobby of The Boston Globe's Dorchester offices a marble tablet reads: "My aim has been to make the Globe a cheerful, attractive and useful paper ... that it should help men, women and children to get some of the sunshine of life, to be better and happier because of the Globe...
...frame of the film into an array of 525,000 separate dots that can be stored in the computer. Then an art director reviews the first frame of a given scene and selects a specific color for every object on the screen. A computer operator, using a digital graphics tablet and an electronic palette, hand-paints the image according to the art director's instructions, much like a child filling in a paint-by-the-numbers picture. Then the computer takes over, coloring the rest of the scene by comparing every new frame with the preceding one. Since less...
...tablet that translated his lines into patterns of ones and zeros, where one represents a dot of color and zero a blank space. The image of Captain Goodnight's airplane is stored in the computer as a list of 798 zeros and ones that look like this...
Rampant misuse and counterfeiting has prompted officials to clamp down on Quaalude. Nine states have banned its sale, and the Drug Enforcement Administration has required Lemmon to cut production from 58 million tablets in 1978 to 7.5 million this year. The Government has also gone after counterfeit Quaalude, which is smuggled into the U.S. in amounts estimated at up to a billion tablets a year. As a result of last week's announcement, the street-corner price of 'ludes doubled to as much as $10 a tablet, in contrast with about 70? in a drugstore...