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...DIED. JOHN PEEL, 65, British disk jockey whose keen ear for new talent helped shape modern rock 'n' roll; while on holiday in Cuzco, Peru. Peel joined the BBC in 1967, the year Radio 1 was launched, and was the first DJ to broadcast songs by Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie and the Clash. He went on to help create an audience for punk and, later, for alternative bands like the Smiths and Nirvana. In the 1980s, he hosted the Peel Sessions, live performances by a range of acts, many of which became classic recordings. Described by friends as an eternal...
...World Adult Kickball Association has 20,000 playing members. A new campus spin-off: Frisbee kickball, with a disk in place of a ball
Several other models are standouts: the Rio Forge ($139 for 128 MB, $169 for 256 MB or $199 for 512 MB) is a 3in.-wide, disk-shaped player with a rubberized rim and a slot for adding up to 1 GB of extra memory. JetAudio's iAudio U2 is one of the only flash players with a rechargeable lithium-ion battery and comes in a jazzy red ($149 for 256 MB) and cool blue ($199 for 512 MB). And the upcoming Rocbox ($160 for 256 MB) from Roc Digital, a new company formed by hip-hop and fashion mogul Damon...
DIED. JEAN RUTH HAY, 87, the world's first global disk jockey, who woke millions of American troops during World War II with her plucky Reveille with Beverly program; in Fortuna, Calif. Instead of a bugler's blast, soldiers were greeted with big-band music and Hay's signature line, "Hi there, boys of the U.S.A...
...Computer Science and Telecommunications Board. It tracked the evolution of computer and telecommunications technologies from conception in the lab to the point where they had become $1 billion industries. In almost every case, the development took about 20 years. And that trend does not apply only to computers. Disk brakes, which we take for granted, were introduced by British inventor Frederick William Lanchester in 1901. They didn't appear in North American cars until Chrysler introduced them in the early 1950s, and they became standard only in the 1980s. Likewise, the Golden Age of television arrived some 20 years after...