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Eaton was worried that in 10 years only six of the current 30 automakers would be around. Although Chrysler was hugely successful, he feared it would never have the financial muscle to best Ford and GM. That's why Schrempp needed a mere 17 min. around a coffee table in suburban Detroit in January 1998 to convince Eaton that a combination was a good idea...
...grooming business in Houston, found the therapists she saw to deal with her own stress either insincere or judgmental. When a friend suggested online therapy, Steele decided to give it a try. Now, each Tuesday night, she logs on to the website concernedcounseling.com for a 50-min. session in a private chat room, typing messages back and forth with a therapist she has never met in person. "He makes himself human," she says, "and he makes me feel human...
...quality music into files about one-tenth their original size while retaining most of the music's high fidelity. The standard is controversial because it allows people (kids, mostly) to swap music online--piracy, the record companies charge. Yet millions do it, despite the irritating download wait of 10 min. or so per song--an annoyance that will disappear when we all get high-speed Net access. MP3 phobia is so great among record companies that Universal Records, the biggest, bolted from the pack last week and announced that it will be backing a competing standard to protect and sell...
...among the takers who grabbed a beta copy from www.real.com Installation on my home PC was effortless. I threw a Meat Puppets CD into my disk drive and started listening to the first cut. In the time it took me to play a third of the 4-min. song, the whole tune (all 2.3 megabytes of it) was already neatly recorded and stored on my hard drive. While the sound quality is billed as "near CD," I couldn't tell the difference. I quickly set to work cherry picking our CD collection for my favorite songs. I can now play...
...multisyllabic "Fif-teen Min-utes" didn't stick with Harvard students and soon, most everyone called the magazine by its initials, F.M. This started to confuse the matter. "FM" smacked of radio journalism, not print. And pronounced quickly, these initials sound like shorthand for Afro-American Studies (Af-Am), "effeminate"(effeme) or "fuck them...