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Given your Scottish and Chinese heritage, does Obama's mixed background speak to you? Oh, totally. We're hybrids. Hybrids are in. I'm a hybrid. He's a hybrid. I own a hybrid - a Prius, best car in the world. Hybrids are in this year...
Both. I remember going into the supermarket, a Gristedes on 86th Street and Broadway, and it was playing in the background on the street. Somebody had a transistor radio, and they walked in with it. I thought, Oh my God, that's me. That's an amazing moment, the first time you hear yourself on radio. It's still thrilling. And it was scary because there were all these people screaming at me at concerts and people spitting at me on the street...
...Pond. And as translator Patrick Olivelle - who in his rendering of the Buddhacarita has stressed its exquisite literary qualities - notes, Siddhartha's departure into the forest from his father's palace is itself "modeled after that of Rama in the Ramayana, although cast within a Buddhist theological and moral background." The Buddhacarita, Olivelle argues, is both an extension of Brahmanical texts and a potent challenge to them - repudiating Vedic conservatism and its emphasis on family units...
...capable of providing higher sound levels than some over-the-ear earphones. That said, studies we've done on behavior show that the type of earphones has almost nothing to do with the level at which people set their headphones. It's all dictated by the level of background noise in their listening environment. When we put people in different listening environments, like flying in an airplane - we used noise we'd recorded while flying on a Boeing 757 commercial flight, and we simulated that environment in our lab - 80% of people listened at levels that would eventually put their...
...ever. I even advocate that people listen to music as loud as they want. But in order to listen as loud as you want, you need to be careful about how long you're listening. I would also strongly recommend that people invest in better earphones that block out background noise. Some of the research we did studied earphones that completely seal up the ear canal. These are passive sound-isolating earphones, as opposed to the ones that are active noise cancelers that block out some of the noise. As far as I can tell, both would allow people...