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...they polluted it? Many people think so. The moral right wing surely does, and it has friends in powerful places. Senator Jesse Helms fights to force artists to forswear any unwholesome intentions before receiving Government support. Alfred Sikes, the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, leans on radio disk jockeys to clean up their acts. No less than the FBI sends a warning letter to a rap group. Susan Baker (wife of the Secretary of State) and Tipper Gore (wife of the Tennessee Senator) lobby for proscriptive labeling of certain albums ... Stranded in the middle are the majority...
Fifty years ago, when a young trucker called Elvis Presley cut his first disk at the legendary Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, he shelled out $4 for the privilege. These days, the studio charges more than twice that sum just for a tour of the premises. Aspiring rock gods pay thousands of dollars to make a record. (Weird hairstyles are extra.) If you've got that kind of money lying around and are hankering to lay down that song you wrote on your battered guitar at college, here's the tab at some of the world's top facilities. London...
...personal entertainment center," the AV320 is a camera, MP4 video player and MP3 player rolled into one. Watch up to 40 hours of movies, view up to 200,000 photos, or enjoy 1,000 hours of music. Connect it to your PC and it acts as an extra hard disk for storing any kind of data...
...enough of lame inflight entertainment? The AV340 video and music player from French firm Archos might just be the answer to mile-high boredom. Its 40-GB hard disk can easily store 30 feature films to watch on its 9.7-cm color screen, and still leave room for a few thousand MP3 tracks. All this in a package that weighs just 0.35 kg. The Archos ($1,000) can record straight from TV or hi-fi, so you don't have to waste time compressing audio and video files on your computer. And when you land, you can hook...
There's no question that the equipment has improved. Rent a cross-country bike these days, and you're likely to get a sturdy steed with hydraulic or mechanical disk brakes, which will help prevent you from skidding out of control when descending a steep incline. A few years ago, the technology appealed mainly to downhill racers, but it has since become widespread. New rear suspensions allow bikers to alter their mount's shock-absorbing capacity to accommodate the terrain. This year Specialized launched a line of bikes, Epic ($1,900+), whose suspension system, called "the Brain," automatically adjusts...