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British air-traffic-control transmissions have been interrupted by wails from a baby monitor, a gadget that can also inadvertently eavesdrop on phone calls...
Tomlinson, 60, a former Reader's Digest editor with a soft Appalachian drawl, tells TIME he had hoped to bring quiet change. "I worked for a year and a half inside the system to rectify" the bias issue, he says. Yet his moves--hiring a G.O.P. activist to monitor the political balance of the news show Now with Bill Moyers, bringing in CPB ombudsmen to police bias, shepherding the conservative Journal Editorial Report onto air--rankled some within and outside public broadcasting. John Lawson, president of the Association of Public Television Stations, says the problem...
...Army's National Automotive Center, near Detroit, how to reduce significantly the time it takes to change out the engine on a humvee. The Army could also use transponders similar to the ones NASCAR installs in cars to track their positions in a race, so military commanders can monitor all their vehicles on the battlefield. And amid an Army investigation into a recent spate of rollovers in Iraq that may have been caused by tacked-on, top-heavy armor, the service hopes to build on NASCAR engineering to reduce rollovers for the next generation of vehicles that will replace...
...solution to this high-tech death spiral: get big quick, through acquisitions that produce economies of scale along with brand recognition. Other Taiwan companies are striking deals similar to BenQ's. Earlier in June, Taiwan's TPV Technology agreed to buy part of the computer-monitor-and-LCD-TV operation of Dutch electronics giant Philips for $358 million. The deal solidifies TPV as the world's largest maker of computer displays...
...There are still more surprises, like two-way radio functionality (if you buy extra handsets), a baby monitor option, and a backup battery in case of power failure. Oh, I almost forgot: it also has a built-in answering machine...