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Even the most sophisticated hearing aids cannot restore perfect hearing. In particularly difficult conditions, many people find assistive listening and alerting devices helpful. In her determination not to be sidelined by her profound hearing loss, New Yorker Ruth Bernstein, 67, has become a gadget guru. The lamps in her living room, office and bedroom are wired to flash when the phone rings or the doorbell buzzes. Her telephone has a receiver with a powerful amplifier. Though theaters are required to lend listening systems to hard-of-hearing customers, Bernstein has purchased her own infrared unit. She's also bought...
...position is one of the most prestigious lectureships in the nation. Past recipients have included Leonard Bernstein '39, e.e. cummings '15, T.S. Eliot '10, Robert Frost, Harold Bloom, Lionel Trilling, Jorge Luis Borges and Aaron Copeland. The most recent Norton Professor was musicologist Joseph W. Kerman, who lectured...
...selling them things--it isn't lumbered with a traditional retailing cost structure. No buying, warehousing or shipping. No taking returns or unloading overstock. "eBay is the only e-tailer that really fulfills the promise of the Web," says Faye Landes, an e-commerce analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. "And the key is its virtuality...
...suppliers because the cost of entry--a multibillion-dollar power plant--is high. So real competition is, by and large, harder to find. "If deregulation is a good idea, and it still may be, it needs to be implemented when you have the infrastructure in place," says James Bernstein, commerce commissioner of Minnesota, which still has a regulated electricity system and may have a power shortfall...
...making people thirsty. While the nonbubbly business is growing almost 10% a year--and bottled water is chugging along at a rapid, 30% clip--sodas have suddenly gone flat. Noncarbs, which generally command higher prices, now account for more than half of all industry growth, according to Sanford Bernstein & Co. No wonder, then, that every beverage maker is feverishly working to come up with cola alternatives that promise to be healthy, not just refreshing. Norm Snyder, COO of SoBe, says, "Before, the big boys were just watching from the sidelines, but now they're betting on it with their dollars...