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Reporting from a war zone may be the toughest assignment a journalist can get. Along with the flak jacket and the satellite phone, music - an iPod, Walkman or just a noisy singalong - can be a war correspondent's best friend. Here are a few tunes that have given our reporters a respite while covering Iraq. Aparisim Ghosh I never leave home without The Best of Daler Mehndi, a compilation of uptempo bhangra standards by India's best-selling pop act. It's Punjabi dance music at its best. I've made Mehndi fans out of cab drivers in Jenin, Gaza...
With 99˘ song downloads, complete albums for $9.95 and no subscription required, Napster's pricing follows the iTunes model. Also Apple-like is Napster's integration with a portable audio player, Samsung's YP-910, a $399 jukebox that shares iPod's simplicity of use. This player is slightly larger, though unlike iPod it has a built-in MP3 recording function and an FM transmitter for wireless connection to radios...
...music is all you need to while away long-haul hours, try the smaller, lighter Apple iPod. It comes in three handy sizes?10 GB ($300, 2,500 songs), 20 GB ($400, 5,000 songs) and a new 40-GB ($500, 10,000 songs) mini-monster. Copying tracks over to the iPod is easy and almost automatic. A humbler travel buddy is the iRiver SlimX iMP-550 ($180). It looks like a regular portable CD player, but also plays CD-R-burned MP3s, each of which can hold 11 hours of music?enough to entertain you halfway across the world...
...gigabyte iPod. This sounds bad enough, but worse yet, I purchased it after owning a five-gigabyte iPod for only six months. I am, admittedly, a gadget addict. I am one of those guys who actually reads the Circuit City ads in the Sunday paper before getting to the op-eds. If you look at my Internet history, you’ll see endless links to amazon.com, where I look daily to see if the price of the Canon GL2 digital video camera has gone down yet. It’s pathetic, but I can’t help...
...promote the site, they are auctioning gift certificates to Square businesses, tickets to concerts and the upcoming Dalai Lama speech at Harvard, and an iPod (starting...