Word: duller
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...surround sound is made for five speakers, we only have two ears. Sound from each of the five speakers ricochets off every surface in a room, reaching our ears at different times. Our brains analyze it all to discern where the sound is coming from. (Sound from behind is duller, because it has to pass through the skin flaps of our ears.) The headphones come with processors that analyze incoming sound tracks and transform them into two-channel tracks. This replicates the behavior of sound coming from five speakers and a subwoofer that would bounce around a room before landing...
...Indiana Senator and former Governor might not carry his conservative home state but could help in neighboring Ohio, a key swing state with 20 Electoral College votes. The boyish-looking moderate is not a fireball, though. A Kerry-Bayh ticket could be dull and duller...
...utter a simple sentence, but his orotundities also serve to reinforce the notion that the Senator from Massachusetts is a patrician stiff, too smug to speak in a manner decipherable by ordinary Americans. In fairness, John Kerry has been as sick as a dog these past few weeks and duller than he might ordinarily be--but there was a real sense last week that Kerry, assuming victory, had lapsed into flabby aristocratic entitlement, a persona he inhabits when not in mortal combat...
...Given that airlines can easily spend upwards of $10 million annually on wine, buyers and tasters bear a heavy responsibility. Bouquet and taste are greatly affected by the lower humidity and pressurized atmosphere of an aircraft. The "nose" will be less pronounced and the palate duller. "Particularly on long-haul flights, wines should not be cloying or boring," says Spurrier...
Other than filing expenses, it's hard to imagine a duller office chore than updating your address book. But help might be at hand. Sean Parker, a co-founder of Napster, is here to help. The onetime online-music exec is the mind behind Plaxo (plaxo.com), a company providing free, easily downloaded software that integrates with Microsoft Outlook to keep your address book up to date. So long as your contact is also a Plaxo user, any changes to his or her phone number, e-mail address or postal address will be automatically sent to your...