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Page 6B/The Battalion/Wednesday, August 31 1983 New stereo m United Press International Home stereo equipment for the fall is nearly all electronic and computerized, meaning there are fewer knobs and obtrusive buttons to be con cerned with. Manufacturers seeking to tap a wider market will be offering matched (compatible) compo nents, often with a cabinet to house the components. Selecting and operating hi-fi equipment is becoming easier. Technical and cosmetic refine ments eliminate the hassle the hi-fi novice experiences. Home audio makers are re sponding to die popularitv of the “media room. ’ as more peo ple devote a single room of their home to house audio and video equipment designed u work in concert. The biggest news in home stereo hi-fi products comes f rom Sony, the maker of the new “Beta Hi-fi." a video cassette re corder that also records high- fidelity audio impressively bet ter than conventional open reel- to-reel tape decks. reo VCR lore computerized i tie p of$0'i >ueii>-. both s and the more >phit/' '' at ietv . noimallv reserved lot the com- pa ivy’s band < rafted products. C)rtc>fon has a budget version of the MC200 cartridge, the VIt! 100 has the same moving coil md damping of the 200, and is available in two v ersions —- inte grated and universal — to lit almost anv tone arm- Headphones have come of age, too. V\ ith the coming of the compact digital disc players. Sons has introduced a stereo headphone to capture the full benefits of digital. 1 he MDRCD7, the company savs, is designed to extract the best that digital sound has to offer. The MI)R-CD7’s drive unit has a diaphragm plated with 24- carat gold. The earpad is co vered with skin-like urethane that allows a tight lit to give ambient sound insulation of more than 30 dB; f requency re sponse is 2()-24kl!/. five MDRCD7 accommodates mini or standard si/e jacks. Mavware has a new platter mat designed to replace conven tional ribbed turntable mats. The company claims the new mat w ill improve the sosl qualitv of direct drive tyA United ablcs. Vie sou lb protect hi-fi equipmVrica, e I rom annoying dicks anibVung p that result from outsidetlbrelectr- Iciviu e, Bowthorpe EMPiVoining troduc ing the Surge ProteJev I o improve sound nhidiVrs. become dull and muffled^ Klectror lac k ol < leaning, Bensonicoi:« exotic the (:.\ 1 (clean and testier ied most tc. It cle.ms the heads atidc# in 198:' w hether frequency range,,- |nt runm .uni I hitter, left and rightckj ■ °f b ); ncis, are working correctly, I P° r Toards, I J %M| v n c compiling data for pi CA. J r f /- i Civil War vessel, recovery attempt synthes that v led as is are lection i United Press International CAPE HATTERAS, N.C. — More than 120 years after it sank, scientists have returned to the USS Monitor, hoping to save at least part of the Civil War war ship from the ravages of time and some of the most treacher ous waters of the American coast. days this week to videotape the wreck, compile more engineer ing data and recover the four- prong anchor the Monitor crew dropped in a vain attempt to save the vessel on the hist night of 1862. Tentative plans call for an attempt in 1985 tcv recover the round gun turret, which led iset vet s to <i Cuoli- eseat c Iv and of 1 l! he l Nan it'd tlie Monitoi as a ‘national trea sure" that continues- to draw widespread public interest. ‘‘The tiling that lias made if so interesting to the public is be cause of the historical signifi cance. she said. 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Scientists feel the tur ret is creating stress on the hull mid something must lx* done to prevent the Monitor from will now nd wh strum nd amplil ml that miration Tuitar.' breaking up. Scientists months evaulating the i |lited R < ihtamecl during theexpedii I which was estimated to os! pf tween $90,000 to Sffil What we are trying to doii I ! ■ ’ ■! .mi uiuil and lettheMoa sit Ic-t it collapse and lettl gone," Dr. Foster said. Farmers checked for weed control )C United Press International DES MOINES — Having black nightshade, jinvson weed or other weeds on acreage set aside in the federal payment-in- kind program could cost far mers more money this year than if the weeds were on cash crop lands. Officials of the Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service have begun spot checks of l’IK acres to make sure parti cipating farmers comply with the program’s weed control re quirements. “If a farm is spot-checked and is determined to have* weeds, it could reduce a portion of the farmer's program be nefits," said Gene Johnson of die ASCS office in Des M oines. He said there is no set penalty for violations of the weed con trol rule, but farmers with se vere cases of untended weeds could even be thrown out of the program. ‘ I his depends on the county committee’s determination of the weed problem," Johnson said. “It could be a flagrant case United ■as HE or mavbe a fellow has ext BVaterg some weed control but it |l emoct been adequate.” I even Johnson said weed com ■ agreei important not only forth |r? i bet i< value of the consent Why d md. Inn to maintainthetji ■•ied ev ol I’1 K-id led fallow land I liriend: tore farming. P)’ sing "We want to continueim Why d die ate the weeds. In town ft emba thev reduce the yield ands lidualr soil ol moisture and nutiiB know We certainly wouldn’t w;: lin part of anything thatwoull Brry B. imtiate a weed problem,"Jt Imanag son said. tm ;e Wa Other ASCS officialsdl that weed control prevee PI K ; k tes from infesting!!® Iioring land where a nail (at mer might betryingtoif ( tops. I he s|)ot checks are It < onducted in actual on-silt spe< uons by ASCS con® members in each count).jt son said the penalties font— covered property will bed* mined according to a sei inula. Cruise ships chasing whales from Alaska United Press International SEA I 11.E — Alter an abrupt disappearance five years ago, humpback whales may he re turning to Alaska's Glacier Bay, raising again the argument over whether whales and large tourist cruise ships can thrive in the same waters. The whales attract the tour ists, hut conservationists say t hat the more tourist ships there are the more likely the whales will up and leave. Now Chuck Jurasz, a veteran whale researcher and high school science teacher in Juneau, fears if the whales do return it will mean more cruise ships, which in turn will chase the whales away again. Jurasz has long maintained the whales’ exodus was linked directly to the increase in 2(),()00-ton tourist cruise ships steaming through Glacier Bay, site of some of the most specta cular coastline scenery in world. ()thers shared his view in 1980 the National Pari vic e cut ship traffic bad 1976 level. But those restrictions! 1 change quickly. Government figures humpback residents in Ol) Bay dropped from21 ind three in 1978 and then creased to six in Wayne Hall, a board iih* of the Alaska WildHJ savs the whales are in aCal® situation. 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