It could be dramatic: "Some sinister force" had erased one of Mr. Nixon's subpoenaed Watergate tapes, creating an 18 1/2- minute gap.
She then laboriously analyzed the tapes, creating vast databases comparing the behavior of parents and children in both two- and single-parent families.
"I then transferred these composition onto individual cassette tapes creating a physical archive".
My guess, based on nothing except listening to the take repeatedly, is that it's a modern alteration of an old tape created to match a line in a studio log.
Since arriving at the S.E.C. a year ago this month, just as the Madoff scandal was grabbing headlines, Mr. Khuzami has cut red tape, created specialized teams to plumb hedge funds and other worrisome areas and tried to make the S.E.C. quicker and more nimble.
While sold by Mr Harper as an effort to reduce red tape created by outdated environmental regulations and to encourage economic development, the law is seen by critics as a threat to the integrity of aboriginal lands and undoing some of the protections agreed under a treaty between the First Nations and the federal government.
The audio was not working when some networks first played that tape, creating an ominous sense that things were not under control as much as he said.
Their breakthrough came with an experiment that involved a block of graphite and sticky tape, creating a material that is stretchy, as strong as steel and almost completely transparent.
We can't tell you exactly what the trick is, but it appears to hinge on rapidly stretching a Teflon tape, creating a membrane filled with microscopic holes.
Although the Mellotron was designed to reproduce the sound of the original instrument, replaying a tape creates minor variations in pitch and amplitude (known as wow and flutter respectively), so a note sounds slightly different each time it is played.
