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...history professor at a prestigious New England liberal-arts college, and guest lecturer Monty Kipps, a black, traditionalist art historian who campaigns against affirmative action and other sacred cows of the liberal establishment. The story rambles on through renovations of several key Forster plot points: a broken engagement, a mix-up at a public concert, a Christmas shopping trip, and a stifled bequest. But by the time Smith's story is over it is clear that On Beauty is not just an homage but a work of real originality. Smith has a virtuoso talent for capturing dialect, which makes...
...Iowa, and Guy Bauer, a 30-minute variety show. About 15 new podcasts arrive daily, he says. Launched in May, the new format has attracted 8,200 registered listeners. Radio isn't dying; it's just going digital: expect to see radio stations roll podcasting into their regular broadcast mix, including streaming audio (real time--not downloadable). Infinity Broadcasting considers KYOU Radio an experiment with on-demand and user-generated content. "Radio has a chance to stay ahead of the curve," Page says...
...they will expose a city that will have been steeping for weeks in a noxious soup. Although emergency-management officials are relieved that the flooding did not crack open the storage tanks of the large petrochemical factories south and east of the city, the waters still contain a poisonous mix of gasoline, household and industrial chemicals and stinking human waste. They will leave a layer of heavily contaminated silt everywhere. John Pardue, director of the Louisiana Water Resources Research Institute at Louisiana State University, says, "We're going to have to find out how deep the contamination...
...Communicator). At handset maker Motorola, chief strategy officer Richard Nottenberg echoes Nokia's views, and pledges that Motorola will next year introduce a "significant" number of wi-fi phones. Indeed, Motorola has made a deal with the company that many phone firms associate with the Devil; its mix of products next year is expected to include a phone loaded with software from Luxembourg-based VoIP firm Skype, whose users can make free VoIP calls to each other. Skype has signed up 51 million "registered" users of its software, though probably less than half of those actually use it. Many Skype...
Opportunity and desperation make a flammable mix. All along the coast, people broke into parked cars to siphon gas. Police reported that a man in Hattiesburg, Miss., shot his sister in the head in a fight over a bag of ice. A rescue team from Texas that had ferried hundreds of people to safety in their flat-bottom boats were told by a New Orleans sheriff that unless they were armed, they should get out of the city. At one point, rescuer Randy White says, "Someone yelled...