Word: channelling
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Although Britain is considered our faithful sidekick, the public’s resentment towards American foreign policy seems little different from across the Channel. Tony Blair’s approval ratings have plummeted since he started “acting like the 51st state.” And a politically charged play called Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom draws on the testimony of numerous “enemy combatants” held without due process by the United States in Cuba’s Guantanamo Bay base...
Also hot: themes for TV shows, from ER to American Idol. MIDIringtones even carries tones from Fox News Channel. That's Bill O'Reilly on the line...
...revolution's great leaps forward was encoding Dolby Digital surround sound on each disc--three channels in front, two in the back for atmosphere, plus a subwoofer to provide true-to-life rumbles and thuds. Until that point we had known only two-channel stereo sound, whether from a CD, the TV or a videotape...
...ears at different times. Our brains analyze it all to discern where the sound is coming from. (Sound from behind is duller, because it has to pass through the skin flaps of our ears.) The headphones come with processors that analyze incoming sound tracks and transform them into two-channel tracks. This replicates the behavior of sound coming from five speakers and a subwoofer that would bounce around a room before landing in our ears...
...what it believes is one of their biggest influences: TV. In one case, although the young defendant's record is sealed, a juror concludes--because of something he saw on a lawyer show--that the accused must have a long rap sheet. Another bases his thinking on a Discovery Channel documentary he saw about the teen brain. Ask for a jury of your peers, dear viewer, and this is what...