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Though iPods are still the gold standard for MP3 players, at nearly 6 oz. they can be a chore to jog with. Flash memory players are often smaller, but they can hold only a fraction of the 10-GB iPod's 2,500 song capacity. Enter the Rio Nitrus Mini Jukebox ($299), a 1.5-GB MP3 player with a slim profile that can still hold 400 titles. Nitrus gets 16 hours of battery life--twice the iPod's--and the included Sennheiser earbuds give great sound...
...President Bush recently signed a bill authorizing the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to create a national do-not-call registry, which anyone can sign up for online beginning July 1 and by phone soon thereafter. Eventually the list will be merged with similar lists maintained by 30 states--a chore that may take up to two years. Companies must begin using the list by Oct. 1. But there are big asterisks in the federal law, which, for instance, exempts from regulation telemarketers for charities and political candidates. And those can be among the most aggressive callers. Last month Amnesty International...
Stopping Gloger will be a chore, but in its win over the Tigers on Jan. 3, Holy Cross showed that it may be all that’s needed to quiet Princeton, having held Gloger to only 10 points. If Harvard can repeat that feat, tonight’s drama could be the opening act of an epic tale—a tale that’s been four years in the making...
...year, it helps to understand their union, including the mysteries of how it works and what it means. Most running mates, chosen to help the presidential candidate win, find that once they are elected their job is done. Presidents come into office and quickly find an unpleasant and unsolvable chore--trade policy, deregulation, the war on drugs--to keep their sidekicks busy, out of sight and out of trouble. It was always the office where ambition goes to die, unless the President does so first...
Flight attendants at Southwest work as many as 150 hours a month, compared with 80 hours at many other airlines, says union president Thom McDaniel. Southwest attendants are required by contract to "make a reasonable effort to tidy the airplane" between flights, a chore that other major airlines pay contractors to do. According to an airline labor expert, senior flight attendants at United get as many as 52 vacation days (compared with 35 days for veterans at Southwest). And they never have to clean up after the passengers...