Word: instruments
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Then along came advances in studio technology and radio-station niche marketing. Leading-edge music is now subdivided into such abstruse and sharply segregated categories as Christian Rap, Acid Jazz and Grunge Rock, and it can be created, almost untouched by human hands, with something called a Musical Instrument Digital Interface. The two major currents of pop today have much to do with attitude and little to do with musicality: heavy metal speaks to priapic barbarism, and rap is so belligerent that for some it verges on antimusic...
...battle: from the world of radio- and TV-signal processing, in which the Japanese excel, to the digital world of computers, which is dominated by U.S. firms. "The entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well in the U.S.," says Donald Rumsfeld, former Secretary of Defense and now chairman of General Instrument, the Chicago-based company that spearheaded the push to digital HDTV...
...just nine months ago, is one of the most recent applications of a new approach to surgery that is rapidly displacing the dreaded knife and scalpel. "We are witnessing the greatest surgical revolution in the past 50 years," exclaims Dr. William Schuessler, a urological surgeon from San Antonio. The instrument sparking such enthusiasm is variously known as a laparoscope (when used in the abdomen), an arthroscope (when applied to the joints), a thoracoscope (when the chest is involved) and an angioscope (when the target lies inside blood vessel walls). But apart from differences in length and thickness, all these scopes...
Though the bagpipes are a distinctly Scottish instrument, Easterday said she found them equally appropriate on an Irish holiday...
...club's most intricate rituals is its election procedure. The person being elected must give a display of his or her most notable accomplishment, whether it is playing a musical instrument, reciting poetry or showing a sculpture...