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An information? ltering apparatus for receiving articles,[21] Appl-NOJ 08/695,214 such as texts or images, from information sources to select [22] Filed: JuL 31, 1996 predetermined articles from the supplied articles to a user has a storage portion, an article retrieving portion, a deter [30l Foreign Application Priority Data mining portion and a presentation portion. The storage