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First-generation technology, you'll recall, allowed homemakers to call their partners on the way home from work to nag them to pick up the dry cleaning. (It succeeded zero-generation: yelling real loud.) That begat 2G, which most of us use, though rarely to its full potential, which includes text messaging and sending smiley faces to classmates. (DoCoMo became a renewed symbol of Japanese tech prowess by popularizing those features, especially with the young, through its i-mode service.) 3G is an exponential jump, allowing one to do pretty much anything a PC can, anywhere. Its hype was such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

...There have been occasions when it's been too loud and we haven't been able to concentrate," said Chauviere, who is also a Crimson editor...

Author: By Ross A. Macdonald, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: College Cracks Down on Noisy Protests in Yard | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

...Curiously, the Council team would not let student body president Paul Gusmorino bat until the final inning, and only then after loud heckling from the Crimson dugout...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hot Crimson Softball Rips UC | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

...women, who say the once male-dominated musical form offers a powerful means of expression. But the groups, which have doubled in the past five years, are also attracting executives, health professionals and schoolchildren. The most popular drums are the Afro-Cuban conga and the West African djembe--a loud, responsive instrument with the brightest high tones and the deepest, most sensual lows. "Drumming is primal," says Kulu Spiegel, who conducts circles for at-risk youth and corporate honchos out of his World Beat Rhythm Circles in Durango, Colo. "It brings people together in a trusting way they often have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drumming Circles | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

...Federal Aviation Agency has defined noise pollution as, among other things, noise loud enough to disturb a family's television watching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airline Pollution: The Sky Has Its Limits | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

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