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...Well, uh, the built-in MP3 player does provide good sound. Its ear phones, mounted on a very adjustable piston and hinge system, can be positioned just over your ears so that you get the close-in sound of an earbud without the annoying feeling of plastic in your ear. It's easy to load MP3s from your computer-just connect the glasses and drag the files to the Thump folder like you were copying to an external drive. Windows users can even transfer purchased WMA tracks to the device, though you'll need Windows Media...
...However they achieve their swift pace, Suetsugu and Liu are blazing a new path for Asian speedsters. For decades?even centuries?Asians have been convinced that their genes prevented them from winning high-piston track events like the sprints or hurdles. Conventional wisdom held that the limber, compact Asian body was better designed for sports that required dexterity and precision. Hence China's dominance in gymnastics and diving, Japan's killer hold in judo or South Korea's command over archery and Taekwondo. Asians sometimes performed respectably in middle- and long-distance track competitions, but there was a tendency...
...championship but also the first to win a title in college and the pros. (As the coach of the U.S. Olympic team, he goes for the trifecta in Athens this summer.) But it took a union with Dumars to give the itinerant coach his crown. And the ex-Piston bad boy, who helped Detroit win back-to-back championships as a player in 1989 and '90, made history of his own, becoming the first African-American GM to craft an NBA champion...
...instance, you could wipe out all of the neurotransmitter secretory vesicles in a part of a neuron, and then watch how new vesicles are made and trafficked to the site of secretion,” said David W. Piston, professor of molecular physiology and biophysics at Vanderbilt University...
Cirrus Design, based in Duluth, Minn., which began mass-producing its small planes only in 1999, is bucking industry trends to become the fastest-growing general-aviation manufacturer in the world. In 2001 Cirrus captured just 11% of the market for single-engine piston planes, but now it accounts for almost one-third. Impressive, but it comes in an industry that has been struggling to regain altitude. Sales of all small airplanes hit an all-time high of 18,000 in 1978 but dropped to 2,600 just five years later, hurt in particular by liability issues. Things...