Word: pioneer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...another front, XM continues to promote the portable idea. I wasn't nuts about last year's XM2Go mobile device but the latest batch - Pioneer's Inno and Samsung's overdue Helix and Passport-compatible neXus - promise more. They're much smaller, and even the Helix and Inno have built in antennae. You can record swaths of programming from a station, and find it already listed by song title or artist. You can delete songs and station identifications to create a tidy playlist of good music you didn't have to buy. It's yours as long...
...trouble is, XM radio, when heard up close through headphones, sounds pretty bad. You can bookmark tracks, and buy better-quality versions from Napster for 99 cents each, but where's the fun in paying? Besides, like their predecessors, these devices were designed by XM, not Samsung or Pioneer, and the result is a poor user interface. Just because you've located a song doesn't mean you can instantly play it, for example...
DIED. Lawrence Lader, 86, journalist turned abortion-rights activist, whom feminist Betty Friedan called the "father" of the movement; in New York City. He became fascinated by the issue while writing about birth-control pioneer Margaret Sanger, and his landmark 1966 book, Abortion, was cited by the Supreme Court in its 1973 ruling to legalize abortion. He co-founded the pro-choice group now known as NARAL; lobbied for the manufacture of the abortion-inducing drug RU-486 in the U.S.; and targeted abortion opponents in lawsuits, including an unsuccessful challenge of the IRS for giving tax exemptions...
...probably know, however, there's a competing format called Blu-ray on the way, backed by Sony, Philips, Panasonic, Samsung and Pioneer. The movie studio lineup also tips slightly in Blu-ray's favor, since Fox, Disney and Sony plan to release films only on the Blu-ray format, while Warner and Paramount plan to launch titles in both. But it isn't as easy as simply waiting for Blu-ray either: the initial players, expected in July or August, will list for $1,000 or more, as opposed to the $500 list price for Toshiba's first...
There are no oil wells in Kaluga, no gold mines, no rich mineral deposits. In fact, until recently there was very little in this town (pop. 345,000) other than some run-down farms, a distillery that produces mediocre vodka, a big statue of a Soviet rocket-science pioneer and a war-era T-34 tank monument that still bears the inscription FOR STALIN AND THE MOTHERLAND...