Word: tapings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have a story to tell. And more and more, we are starting to tell it, speaking into a tape recorder or writing with pen on paper or at a computer. The act of writing about our past, says Kate Hays, a Toronto clinical psychologist, offers valuable "self-reflection, exploration, continuity and discovery." Most important, memoirs are true; they tell what happened. Frank McCourt's 1996 best seller Angela's Ashes kindled interest in the memoirs of ordinary people. Says Adam Sexton, dean of New York City's Gotham Writers' Workshop: "People read McCourt and think, 'I could do that.'" Maybe...
...pointed out that the old analog camcorder some friends lent us last year--roughly the size and weight of a parking meter--isn't exactly state of the art. Video cameras began to shrink more than a decade ago with the introduction of 8-mm tape in cigarette pack-size cassettes that were far smaller than the bulky VHS tapes that fit in our borrowed recorder. Quality improved in 1989 with the introduction of Hi8 film, and it caught on with some 10 million consumers, making 8 mm and Hi8 the most popular format. (The closest competition...
...Digital8 is bigger than most digital cameras, which can weigh half as much and are half as large, as in the case of Canon's ZR Mini-DV Camcorder ($900). And while Digital8 has better resolution and color saturation than Hi8, it requires twice as much tape: a 60-min. Hi8 tape will record only 30 min. of digital video...
...wife pointed out that because we don't have any legacy 8-mm tapes, the charms of the Digital8 may be lost on us. But the benefits of digital video cameras are still compelling. You can create a huge variety of special effects and generally enjoy far more control over how images look. Also, digital tapes are much easier to edit on a PC; an analog tape first must be converted to digital, which is cumbersome. Perhaps the best news is this: for the next year, Sony is expected to have the only Digital8s on the market. That may well...
...goes along with the decision--which it need not but generally does--the very fact that the meeting took place raised questions about the agency's approval process. Rezulin got its thumbs-up via the so-called fast-track system, which slashes through some of the FDA's red tape in order to get an important medication into patients' hands quickly. Drug companies love it, since it gets profits rolling in sooner...