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Happily, we may soon have fewer reasons to sing the blues. New music-recording and -delivery technologies are poised to give us more control over what we hear, where we hear it and even how much we pay for the privilege. Philips Electronics is selling a music CD recorder for about $600 that lets you copy an entire CD (or any other album) onto a new CD, produce your own greatest-hits collections from several albums or just bring those old LPs and cassette tapes into the digital age. Pioneer and Marantz will begin selling similar recorders this summer. Sony...
...invested $100 each month, you would have accumulated 34 shares at an average price of just $17.65, and be up by the annual equivalent of 27%. That's the magic of steady investing, also known as "dollar-cost averaging." You automatically buy more shares when prices are low and fewer when they are high, driving down your average cost per share...
...only a single cell to flower into an embryo and then a full-term fetus, Wakayama got dozens; up to 3% of his clones survived. That may be in part because his technique treated the cells more gently. It's also possible that injecting just the nucleus introduced fewer contaminants into the host cell...
...study in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association, only 24% of American infants sleep on their stomachs, down from 70% in 1992. And the SIDS rate, which hadn't budged in more than a decade, has plummeted from about 5,000 deaths a year to fewer than...
DETROIT: If GM is to thrive in the future, the world's largest carmaker needs to remake itself. It must be leaner and more productive, with less workers making fewer models. Company officials knew that -- and certainly the United Auto Workers knew it, too. And when union leadership saw GM trying to make those changes, it decided to fight the future. And the unions...