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White is one of 28 million Americans--about 10% of the population--with hearing loss. That number will only grow as the baby boomers age, since hearing tends to decline over a lifetime: less than 2% of people under age 18 have a hearing impairment, in contrast to more than 40% of those over age 75. Fortunately for White and others like her, hearing-aid technology has vastly improved over the past decade...
...example, a dial-up modem that connects to the Net over copper has a typical download speed of 56 kilobits--or 56,000 bits--per second, at which rate it would take nearly 10 minutes to download a three-minute song. By contrast, a modem connected to a TV cable that feeds into a fiber-optic loop could claim that tune in under a minute. Yet even today only about 6% of U.S. households have cable modems or digital subscriber lines, which carry compressed data over copper wires at broadband speed. But that hasn't stopped carriers from blanketing...
Others say the strong interest in Bush's managerial style may be due to its contrast with former President Bill Clinton's detail-oriented approach...
...contrast, just over one third of Harvard's freshman seminars are being taught this year by ladder faculty...
...contrast to the apathy and complacence which she said existed after eight years of President Clinton's administration, she said that America now finds itself in a crisis situation...