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...catch those crucial rush-hour traffic updates, it's getting tougher to hold listeners' attention. Facing flat revenues and competition ranging from iPods to music phones, the 87-year-old industry is scrambling to reinvent itself. But not even satellite radio or the new HD format addresses this analog medium's fundamental flaw: it doesn't give people any say in which songs they hear. If you don't like a track or a DJ, your only option is to turn the dial--or turn...
...loss has driven her to desperation and toward suicidal madness. The other, with acknowledgments to J.M.Barrie's Peter Pan, is fantastic, or poetic: it suggests that her grief has opened her to other realities, put her in touch with souls crying from the beyond for justice. As a medium (Geraldine Chaplin) tells Laura, ?Your pain gives you strength; it will guide you. Seeing is not believing - it's the other way around...
...tattoos and repair detached retinas. But in 1960, when physicist Theodore Maiman unveiled the first working laser at a New York City news conference, only a few grasped the device's potential. The trick to creating the tiny, potent pink force that won him world fame: selecting as his medium synthetic rubies, which had been dismissed by many scientists, and using pulsing, rather than continuous, light...
...Congress and magnified Executive power. "I think this started before 9/11, and I think it's continued long after the penumbra of 9/11 became less dominant," he says. "I think it is part of a larger shift driven by powerful forces"-print giving way to television as our dominant medium for examining ideas, television acting on our brains in ways that scientists are just beginning to unlock. As such, it's not the sort of problem that legislation is going to fix. Gore hopes that the Internet, which is so good at inviting people back into the conversation, will...
...understand the value of student input. The UC itself, in its declaration of grievances, expressed its frustration with both the inner workings of University Hall and the administration’s unreceptiveness to their expressed concerns. If the student body’s representatives do not have a medium to effect change and voice complaints, then the process must be all the more inaccessible and discouraging to individual students or student groups. Unfortunately, the UC’s means of protesting this sad state of affairs is equally lamentable. Using language that “demands” representation...