Word: pioneers
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...privilege. Philips Electronics is selling a music CD recorder for about $600 that lets you copy an entire CD (or any other album) onto a new CD, produce your own greatest-hits collections from several albums or just bring those old LPs and cassette tapes into the digital age. Pioneer and Marantz will begin selling similar recorders this summer. Sony and Sharp are spearheading an effort to revive the MiniDisc format, which records digital music onto tiny discs inside cartridges smaller than a Post-it note. Then there's the wild card in the audio deck: computers. CD recorders...
...judge who just happened to be the referee the night Mike Tyson masticated Evander Holyfield's ear. Next month brings Judge Joe Brown, a tough-talking Memphis, Tenn., judge who just happened to preside over the reopening of the James Earl Ray case. And even Judge Joseph Wapner, the pioneer TV judge, has been called in to fill a vacancy. Beginning next month, he'll be trying animal-related cases on cable's Animal Planet network. Meanwhile, Playboy TV has started a courtroom show, Sex Court, with one Judge Julie, whose verdict invariably involves having the disputing parties take their...
...biggest that would be fitted to a production machine until the 1980s--chugged it along at 30 m.p.h. Motorcycle technology advanced so quickly under the spell of the fin-de-siecle obsession with heroic speed that only 13 years later, in 1907, the future aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss was able to put an eight-cylinder engine in a truss frame of metal tubes and go rocketing through a measured mile in Florida at 136 m.p.h...
...content with his achievements to date, Bill Gates seems to want another title on his resume: Pioneer of the Web browser. In an interview with the Seattle Times, printed Sunday, the Microsoft CEO announces that he came up with the idea on an April 5, 1994 executive retreat: "I said, 'Hey, we're going to get (the browser) integrated with the operating system,' " Gates claims. Which, if true, would be extraordinarily convenient. It would prove that Microsoft Explorer and Windows were always intended to be one product, contrary to the Justice Department's claims. And it would predate the establishment...
...biggest Jose Jimenez fan you ever saw? Alan Shepard, (not to be confused with Sam Shepard, who plays a great Yeager in this one) and you're looking at him. Scott Glenn does the old pioneer justice in all his guts, grace and flinty humor. From his lips we get one of space's first slogans -- "everything is AOK" -- and some lesser-known launchpad gems, namely "Dear Lord, please don't let me f--- this...