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...runway and is in a ditch on this one, and they better get out quick." Jane Garvey, director of the FAA, will be put in the hot seat by, among others, Virginia Congressman Frank Wolf, who says the hearing will serve as "a hot compress on a boil...
Once you've resurrected a classic family moment or two, you can put the edited footage back on VHS or compress it for delivery over the Net. For my first project, I dug up tapes of my brother performing in grade school productions of The Boyfriend and The Wizard of Oz to string together his solos (he was the Lion). Now all I need is his girlfriend's e-mail address...
Finally, in the Oh-Bonehead-Me Department: in a column about "burning" your own CDs, I said you could compress CDs to the MP3 format (roughly a tenth the original size), then record the songs to a CD-R disc. But how would you play it? Answer: only on your computer. If you want to play MP3s in your CD player, you need to convert the tunes to .wav files--MusicMatch and Real.com's software will do that--then burn them. The files, of course, will expand tenfold. So forget about squeezing 10 albums onto...
...Holocaust too big for art? It depends on the artists. In A Selection, which debuted in New York City recently, the members of Pilobolus team up with children's authors Maurice Sendak and Arthur Yorinks to compress the ultimate nightmare into an indelibly fearful fable about a troupe of traveling players who miss the last train out of Nazi Germany. Otis Cook gives the performance of a lifetime as a lewdly smirking stranger dressed in death-camp gray who meets them at the station. The music is by Hans Krasa and Pavel Haas, two composers who died in Auschwitz...
...technologically ignorant, MP3-short for Motion Picture Experts Group 1 Audio Layer 3-is the audio-coding software which allows fans to compress digital music files from compact discs into a size more manageable for personal storage and Internet transmission. While a typical digitally recorded song takes up about 40 megabytes of space, its MP3 counterpart only needs about...