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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most exotic technique of all is to play laser beams against a window or any surface that vibrates slightly with sound waves. The laser beam senses the minute reverberations and transmits them to a computer that converts them back into sound. Richard Heffernan, vice president of Information Security Associates, a Connecticut firm that makes countersnooping equipment, doubts that this technique is all that practical -- yet. A window, he explains, vibrates not only from voices inside but also with sounds that strike it from outside: jets overhead, traffic below, birds chirping. "Picking something off the window is difficult...
DriverGuide, produced by Karlin & Collins, a Sunnyvale, Calif., firm, is the electronic equivalent of rolling down a window and asking for directions. The prototype unit looks like an automated-teller machine, but it issues information rather than cash. By punching buttons and choosing from a variety of screen menus, users specify where they want to go. Twenty seconds later, the machine spits out a printed sheet of driving instructions constructed from a data base that contains the location of every intersection and alleyway in the Bay area, including 3,400 turn restrictions and 4,800 traffic lights. Says Barry Karlin...
...instead of 20 from time to time. Perhaps if Evett had found someone to direct himself, he could have achieved the glass-like clarity of Gelber's acting. After all, the only dramatic thing an actor can do in a one-character monologue is to slowly open a window into the character's soul; there's no dialogue, or conflict, or imagery to rely upon...
...love my dorm , but when you think of Harvard, you think of the Yard. It's the center of everything," Romano said. "It's nice to look out your window and see this rectangle with beautiful buildings around it and to see John Harvard. That night, we were sleeping right next to John...
...will provide for additional officers in the South Central area," says the N.A.A.C.P.'s Johnson, who threatens a lawsuit if the police department fails to take action. Two weeks ago, while South Central awaited the outcome, a bullet fired during a shoot-out between rival street gangs pierced the window of a Watts church and struck Choir & Member Dolores Allen in the head. Allen, 42, died the following...