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May 7 2008, AP

Confession: I’ve never balanced a checkbook or devised a realistic budget. I’m too impatient to follow through with manual record-keeping when all the transactions are digital.

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A television set installed with a digital converter box, left, produced a superior image when compared to the analog version of the same channel, New York, Wednesday, April 23, 2008.