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Superconducting Supercollider Big Science took a big hit when Congress finally pulled the plug on the Superconducting Supercollider, the 54-mile-around atom smasher that was supposed to be the world's largest and most sophisticated scientific instrument but is now just a $2 billion hole in the ground. The SSC was doomed when its projected cost escalated from $5 billion to more than $11 billion, making it look less like Big Science and more like Big Bloated Bureaucracy...
...with a few buttons, you?ll be able to use it for your home stereo and your headphones. You can also put receivers in different parts of the house, so as you walk from room to room your music follows. Since the adapter itself consists of only a stereo plug, like the ones on typical headphones, it can be used with any iPod-including the Shuffle, the Nano and the new video-capable edition-and even with other audio sources like a portable CD player or some satellite radios...
...like those in-car transmitters but rather a 2.4GHz Bluetooth signal, it can maintain a nice full sound at distances up to 30 feet. You can hear a little bit of digital hiss at the high end, but only when you?re nearby-near enough to just plug your iPod directly into your stereo. This is for the times when you are, say, working in the kitchen. You want full control over your tunes but can?t be hovering around the living-room sound system playing...
...been there as a constant to ensure victory. Three of her five goals on the season have been game winners, an amazing stat for any player but unprecedented for a freshman so new to the offense. “[The team] really looks to her as a spark plug,” Odorczyk said, “Even if she’s alone, she can go one-on-one with a defender, get a shot off—[be] a big part of our offense.” This past week, Wylie was just that. Coming off a tough...
...what once promised to be the U.S.'s golden retirement era, and they are fast disappearing. From 2001 to 2004, nearly 200 corporations in the FORTUNE 1000 killed or froze their defined-benefit plans. Most recently, Hewlett-Packard, long one of the most admired U.S. companies, pulled the plug on guaranteed pensions for new workers. An HP spokesman said the company had concluded that "pension plans are kind of a thing of the past." In that, HP was merely following the lead of business rival IBM and such other major companies as NCR Corp., Sears Holding Corp. and Motorola...