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...Jukebox Recorder ($350). It lets you create MP3s directly from a stereo or CD player, it's more compact than similar devices like the Nomad Jukebox and it has a built-in mike for voice recording. With six gigabytes of memory, the Recorder can even double as a backup hard drive...
That would have been bad news for the research hospital where I work. Although it has backup power sources, they take a few minutes to come on. All non-essential machinery (that is, everything but patient’s ventilators and lights in the operating room) lose power when the grid turns off. Such disruptions mean crashed computers, half-completed chemical reactions, and temperature fluctuations in strictly climate-controlled cell incubators. If the hospital fails to switch to its own massive diesel generators in time, the penalties from the power companies are enormous...
...creeping fear of unaffordable power has President George W. Bush looking for a backup policy generator as he prepares to unveil an energy program this week that is very fossil-fuel friendly--and simpatico with his and Vice President Dick Cheney's long ties to Big Oil. Bush says his policy, which stresses greater production over conservation, is a long-term solution...
Springfest could take place in the new stadium and feature the guitar stylings of backup catcher Scott Hatteberg...
...creeping fear of unaffordable power has President George W. Bush looking for a backup policy generator as he prepares to unveil an energy program this week that is very fossil-fuel friendly--and simpatico with his and Vice President Dick Cheney's long ties to Big Oil. Bush says his policy, which stresses greater production over conservation, is a long-term solution...