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...gave me a sense of function within the huge panorama that is London," he says. "It was better than going the usual tourist route or sitting in my apartment there watching TV," he adds...
...Reagan Administration implicitly does, that the United States has arrived at such a harmoniously just state that continued remedial action is no longer necessary would be laughable were it not so sinister. As Norton states. "The fact is that the new equality in American life is a function of the new remedies." Take away the remedies, prematurely, and persistent racial and sexual discrimination--now, under heavy assault--will enjoy a renaissance...
...clear example of the limited function of the ACSR is the body's stance on the Sullivan Principles, a very limited code of ethics for companies doing business in South Africa...
Studio musicians should be seriously worried about the growing danger of being replaced by composer-programmed computer synthesizers [Music, Feb. 27]. Now that the function of producing music is more and more in the hands of composers and nonmusicians, a rift is forming between performers and composers. Composers can now afford to hear their work directly and economically on the synthesizers and have consequently come into direct competition with musicians, their onetime partners. One thing is dead certain: audiences will never pay to watch a computer operator walk onto a stage and press PLAY...
Ineraid duplicates this function. A tiny microphone, worn around the ear, is connected to a microprocessor, which turns sound waves into electrical impulses and feeds them through the implanted wires into the auditory nerve. Six of the wires are implanted in those areas of the cochlea that would normally transmit different frequencies, from high to low. The remaining two wires are grounded to muscle tissue to complete the electrical circuit. Says Parkin: "It's like taking the cochlea outside the head and putting it on your belt...