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...perfect hearing. In particularly difficult conditions, many people find assistive listening and alerting devices helpful. In her determination not to be sidelined by her profound hearing loss, New Yorker Ruth Bernstein, 67, has become a gadget guru. The lamps in her living room, office and bedroom are wired to flash when the phone rings or the doorbell buzzes. Her telephone has a receiver with a powerful amplifier. Though theaters are required to lend listening systems to hard-of-hearing customers, Bernstein has purchased her own infrared unit. She's also bought a personal fm unit for lectures: the speaker wears...
...flash point of the crisis is real estate, which is ironic when you consider the antimaterialistic attitudes of the people who drifted west in the '60s and '70s and helped shape the character of the city for the past four decades. For many of us, buying a house was the last thing on our mind. But despite the recent economic downturn, those who haven't already secured their turf are in danger of being priced out--of both the rental and sales markets. "I have several friends who are seriously considering moving to other places because the economic pressures...
...place does feel different. You can almost taste the money, especially in the area south of Market Street, where funkiness has given way to flash, symbolized by the brand-new baseball stadium and the dozens of upscale eateries, hotels and condominiums that surround it. The changes are even more nakedly apparent in the Mission District, ground zero in the war between entrepreneurs--dotcom and otherwise--and the artists, community activists and working people, many of them Latinos, who have lived there for decades. Increasingly, standard-issue low riders and banged-up Toyotas are being edged out by Volvos and SUVs...
...broadband revolution promised to bring every household fast Internet access along with video-on-demand, interactive TV and the ability to flash Libraries of Congress around the world at whim. Amazingly, the sellers of this dream overlooked the fact that many homes and offices connect to the 21st century fiber network with twisted-pair copper wires--late 19th century tech. These could hardly keep up with the bandwidth demands of the Napster...
...Oscar show was more pleasant than usual, thanks to Steve Martin, who managed to take some of the usual flash and venal smirk off the evening. Maybe everyone was worried sober by the market. The proceedings and most of the clothes were even unexpectedly dignified. The cameramen, who must have worked for Ed Sullivan in the days of Elvis, were forbidden to show Jennifer Lopez below the collarbone. Stephen Soderbergh, Best Director (for "Traffic") gave a feeling and self-effacing speech about creativity ("the world would be intolerable without art"). Bob Dylan materialized from Australia, geezer indeed, with a fascinatingly...