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...reinvent itself. But not even satellite radio or the new HD format addresses this analog medium's fundamental flaw: it doesn't give people any say in which songs they hear. If you don't like a track or a DJ, your only option is to turn the dial--or turn...
...Channel 2 on the dial, which had been home to opposition-aligned Radio Caracas Television until Sunday, would have jumped at the chance to show the events. But the reason the students had taken to the streets was precisely to protest the government's forcing RCTV off the airwaves, at midnight Sunday, by refusing to renew its broadcast license. The country's oldest channel had been replaced by state-run TVes, which showed cartoons and old movies during the protests. Critics of President Hugo Chavez warn that when the smoke clears, the television landscape will be largely bereft of independent...
...This is W1AF, Whiskey, One, Alpha, Foxtrot,” Clayton M. Nall calls into the microphone as he wiggles the dial on a large ham radio...
Until we can dial down the carbon, a more immediate strategy might be to find somewhere to put it all--to sequester it underground. In the same way we store radioactive waste from nuclear reactors, so too could we collect the gaseous CO2 from power plants...
...Harvard College Democrats appear to be the loftiest, most influential organization on campus. But their prominence on campus is now a mutated takeover, one that resembles some horrific virus from a Michael Crichton science-fiction saga. I’ve got the Center for Disease Control on speed dial because many of my liberal compatriots are infected by something that I fear may be highly contagious...