Word: compaction
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Carlson has just finished compiling a compact disk with all of the Amateur Scientist columns that have been written since the inception of the series as "The Backyard Astronomer" in 1928. He estimates that he sells 20 copies a day by mail order, and predicts an enormous expansion in sales when the product is picked up by the Ingram Book Group, a major distributor, later this year...
...NASDAQ board meeting in Manhattan last month, a visitor approached a compact, white-haired guy who looks as if he belongs in a college chemistry lab and asked if he was thinking about a top job in the new Administration. "No way," replied Paul O'Neill, with a smile. "I'm too old." O'Neill, 65, allowed as how he might consider running a task force on something really messy and complicated, such as fixing Social Security. But having spent the past 23 years running Alcoa and International Paper, O'Neill and his wife Nancy Jo were looking to step...
This was the year music lost its shape. For more than a century, musical performances have been contained: on piano rolls, on vinyl, on compact discs. With the rise of online music, the art form became free: songs could be exchanged from fan to fan across continents, acts were able to reach audiences directly. Much has been made of online music's economic threat (despite the fact that top-selling acts, from Scott Joplin to TLC, have faced money woes doing things the old way), but the Net is also changing the sound of music: rare tracks, remixes and material...
...band Ensimismada take their name from the Spanish word "ensimismar," which means both "to become absorbed in thought" and "to be proud, be boastful." Their new release X&O, however, is not boastful in any way: instead, it's crisp, compact and cleverly constructed...
This was the year music lost its shape. For more than a century, musical performances have been contained: on piano rolls, on vinyl, on compact discs. With the rise of online music, the art form became free: songs could be exchanged from fan to fan across continents, acts were able to reach audiences directly. Much has been made of online music's economic threat (despite the fact that top-selling acts, from Scott Joplin to TLC, have faced money woes doing things the old way), but the Net is also changing the sound of music: rare tracks, remixes and material...