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...DIAL M FOR MUCHO DISTURBING...
...Chicago convention center on Monday, called the formation of a new government in Iraq "a turning point in the struggle between freedom and terror." The words had a familiar ring. Since 2003, the Bush Administration has described event after event in Iraq as milestones, turning points, moments that would dial back the chaos and bloodshed that has consumed the country. There was the capture of Saddam in December 2003; the handover of sovereignty to the Iraqis in June 2004; the writing of the Constitution in September; the successful referendum on the Constitution in October; and December's parliamentary elections...
...picking the scab of something that's already healed? Because we don't know what people are thinking." Radio programmers make it their business to know. "They're still through the floor," says Dale Carter, program director at KFKF in Kansas City, Mo. "There's a technology called the Dial where listeners react to songs, and every time we test the Dixie Chicks ..." Carter makes a noise like a boulder falling from a high cliff. "It's not the music, because we're playing them the hits they used to love. It's something visceral. I've never seen anything...
Each day, locals dial the museum’s hotline—available only to residents—and leave voice messages about daily experiences that amazed them or inspired them. At the end of the day, Kottamasu, now a graduate student of Urban Planning at MIT, puts the messages together in a program, along with his commentary...
From 8 p.m. until midnight everyday, from April 21 to May 21, people can either dial the hotline or go to the museum’s website to listen to that day’s program...