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Scientists have long known that it is possible to represent the information carried in analog waves with strings of numbers. That is essentially what recording engineers did when they replaced analog records and tapes with digital compact discs. The advantages are twofold. Digital signals offer many more opportunities to identify and eliminate distortions caused by interference -- the echoes, flutters, ghosts and bursts of noise that can make today's broadcast television so hard on the eyes. Going digital also makes it easier to isolate and manipulate images -- freeze frames, enlarge pictures, even view scenes from different angles. That feature will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Picture Suddenly Gets Clearer | 3/30/1992 | See Source »

After exchanging baskets with the Crimson, Yale returned the favor twofold with a 17-0 run to finish the half...

Author: By Gordon P. Bellamy, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Elis Torch M. Cagers In New Haven, 83-56 | 3/7/1992 | See Source »

Derrida's answer is twofold. The first part is contained largely in the left-hand page of Cinders, and amounts to saying "Before Auschwitz, philosophy was barbaric...

Author: By J.d. Connor, | Title: Derrida's Cinders | 1/30/1992 | See Source »

...stop here was the last for Baker in a tour of five newly independent republics, four of which have nuclear weapons on their territory. His message was twofold: dismantle nuclear weapons and place those remaining in safe storage; practice democratic principles...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: WORLD | 12/19/1991 | See Source »

...vote of 1,682 to 43 a sketchy transitional government that establishes an executive State Council and two subordinate bodies, a reconstructed parliament and an Inter-Republican Economic Committee. In tandem, and largely at the sufferance of the increasingly restless republics, the task of these organs will be twofold: to provide the glue that maintains some semblance of unity and to convince the world that there is still a there in Moscow with which to deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Knell of the Union? | 9/16/1991 | See Source »

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