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...certain this is the year for digital radio," says Terry Scicluna, chief executive of the Digital Radio Development Bureau (drdb), a consortium created by the BBC and its commercial rivals around a year ago to bring the new medium to the masses. The technology has long been ready, but receivers have been scarce and expensive as electronics firms hesitated. "Manufacturers were not ready to make the radios until they had proof of a huge market," says Quentin Howard, ceo of Digital One, the U.K.'s first commercial digital network. "It's been a classic catch-22 situation." But with cheaper...
...earlier bout, we scoffed when Baron Mikel Scicluna (a bad guy) reached elaborately into his trunks for a small peice of hard plastic (the "foreign object" as the TV announcers call it) with which to rake his opponent's neck. We recognized this as one of professional wrestling's ritual gestures, like the stunned, stylized way the wrestlers react to punches, with the dazed expression and wobbly walk they have all learned. The bad guy pleading for mercy with a fist clenched behind his back, the resounding stomp of the foot on the mat as each punch is delivered--these...
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