Word: ear
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...listen carefully, you can hear the answer reverberating from those distinctive white "ear-bud" headphones attached to Apple Computer's iPod digital-music player. After the booming success of the iPod and Apple's iTunes Internet music store, the mobile-phone industry is keen to join the party by converting phones into mobile jukeboxes capable of storing hundreds or thousands of songs. Meanwhile, cellular-network operators are launching their own download services, hoping that by generating revenue from digital-music sales they can recoup some of the billions of dollars they've invested in high-speed, third-generation (3G) networks...
...only by one word, or the spacing of words, or in the margins” gave Sawyer-Lauçanno a reverence for Cummings’ skill. “[His poems] seem so spontaneous, so lively and so free yet they represent such craftsmanship. He appeals to the ear and to the eye,” he said...
...What they had in common is that tribal leaders put them there to prove they'd picked the right spot, says Cope. "They mythologized it for being flood - free, fertile and safe. That's a universal response." Archaeologists might well pick holes in his arguments; they lent an indulgent ear to his lecture on Odin at the British Museum in 2001 (not batting an eyelash at his warrior - god face paint or the orange hairspray that set off the fire alarms). "They don't necessarily agree with me," he says, "but they know I'm not trying to hoodwink people...
...Atlantic for a cushy deal at another label. It meant firing a friend and keeping his women (and his drugs) away from his wife. Mainly, it meant diversifying his product: from R&B to rock 'n' roll and then to country, Big Band, America the Beautiful--whatever beguiled his ear. Ray Charles Inc. was a multimusical conglomerate...
...eardrum in turn causes three tiny bones inside the ear to vibrate. The last of these bones taps against a snail-shaped, fluid-filled structure called the cochlea, which houses the hair cells that produce the TRPA1 protein...