Word: compaction
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...will offer yoga and Pilates?inspired training DVDs in the fitness rooms too, and features two-minute yoga stretch instructions on its own TV channel in every room. Full-service Marriott hotels in North America offer three in-room exercise equipment options free of charge, including the BodyRev, a compact, portable free-weight system that provides a full workout, and the BodyWedge21, a large foam wedge that allows you to perform 21 full-body exercises on an incline. www.westin.com; www.marriott.com
There are many such devices on the market, and they're quite easy to use. They come in three basic flavors: pocket drives (the iPod qualifies as one), portable drives and desktop drives. The more compact the drive, the more you'll pay per gigabyte of storage space. For example: Seagate's nifty pocket model, which resembles a yoyo, provides 5 GB of storage for about $200 or less, depending on where you buy (compare prices at cnet.com; for product details, see seagate.com). Seagate's larger yet slim 100 GB portable runs about $220 and up. The Maxtor OneTouch...
...While some of the players mentioned here are good value and others are compact and cool, the anti-iPods still can't match Apple's ease-of-use. But they're getting closer. "In a device category as young as digital-music players and services," says Kevorkian, "no lead is insurmountable." There's more than one way to peel an Apple...
...defense, far from peak performance, was more compact than the night before, but junior goaltender Ali Boe lost the shutout bid on an unassisted power-play goal by Christine Bailkowski early in the final period...
Still, the details of Hwang’s speech were far from the only reason that students arrived at Burden Auditorium en masse. Advertisements promising a free flash drive—a compact, pocket-sized device that can be attached to a computer via a USB port, and stores data in much the same fashion as an internal hard drive—was a major factor in some students’ decision to attend the speech...