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...causes disease when it reaches a place where it doesn’t belong,” he said. “It travels from the upper respiratory tract to other places,” like the lungs, spinal cord, blood...
...heard nothin' yet!" cried Al Jolson halfway through The Jazz Singer. Jolson's urgent, boastful bray--an ad-libbed intro to his rendition of Toot Toot Tootsie--cut through the opening-night audience at the Warner Theatre near Times Square like an obstetrician's scissors severing the umbilical cord to silent films, for 30 years the dominant screen language. But the movies had to talk. Thomas Edison thought so. He and his assistant W.K.L. Dickson had devised a talking-movie machine as early as 1889. In the early '20s short sound films appeared featuring vaudeville and opera stars. These were...
...executives who need to recharge their umpteen mobile gadgets can start leaving all but one power cord at home. The iGo Juice ($119) can recharge most major-brand laptops by plugging into U.S. wall outlets (and foreign ones with a standard adapter), airplane armrests or car cigarette-lighter sockets. And for an extra $19, iGo's less than imaginatively named Peripheral Powering System can simultaneously charge most handheld devices and mobile phones. The Juice comes with a sleek vinyl techno-Dopp kit, so you can tote your slimmer, trimmer recharger in style. Warning: although this company's products can adapt...
...It’ll be interesting to see if one day I’ll be able to cut the cord with Mother Harvard,” Avery told the Crimson last February while on maternity leave...
Having packed up after the International Housewares Show in Chicago last week, Salton product manager John Howell is still bursting with pride for what he claims is a first: the $300 Westinghouse Unplugged Cord-Free Vacuum, a full-size vacuum cleaner that runs on rechargeable batteries and is due out in June. "This," he says in dead earnest, as if showgoers had never seen a Dustbuster, "is completely revolutionary...