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This is the year to pity poor music lovers. Just when they thought they had assembled the best audio system budgets could buy, along comes a development that may render their expensive turntables and library of LPs as out of date as Edison's first talking machine. This month Sony and Magnavox are introducing a limited number of digital record players in audio and department stores across the U.S. The machines, which retail for $800 to $1,000, use a laser beam instead of a conventional tone arm and stylus to play compact discs, or CDs, that will sell...
Plus, Langdell's renovations have brought the hallowed hall well into the 21st century. Technological facilities at the library include 24 workstations in a computer classroom, 12 workstations in two computer training rooms, 14 stand-up computer workstations, 40 sit-down computer workstations and 10 audio-visual TV stations...
...surprisingly, Tower Records has also spread its abundant financial resources into non-audio products and services. It is now possible to rent videotapes from Tower, as well as to buy new releases at the priced-for-rental tag of $100. Other products include custom mailboxes, hemp necklaces, tiny pouches of "Zodiac Essence" and "Hello Kitty" pencil boxes...
...something of a given. But you know it?s getting serious when Mission Control won?t let you hear what?s going on up there. After a planned space walk was canceled Tuesday because the cosmonauts were unable to open the hatch, officials on the ground turned off the audio system that lets reporters listen in on the radio traffic. ?You?re not supposed to listen to that,? snapped Mission Control Chief Vladimir Solovyov. ?You will get the news from...
...sure enough, as the pack of horses approaches the final turn, the Suffolk Downs audio system tells me that Land Ahoy and Two Mikes are running one and two--just as it says on my betting slip. As visions of expensive dinners and new compact discs course through my mind, my entire body clenches up and my heart rate quickens...