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...snowfall and summer heat waves beat the average some years and fail to reach it in others. It's tough to pick out overall changes in climate in the face of these natural fluctuations. An unusually warm year, for example, or even three in a row don't necessarily signal a general trend...
...have to do a little guesswork to click the right buttons on foreign-language stations) and you'll be connected in about 30 seconds. As long as your Internet connection remains live, so will the radio broadcast. There can be disruptions due to Net congestion, which chops up the signal like old-fashioned static, and, if you're loading another page or working on a document, the stream may pause for a few seconds. Unless you hook up quality speakers, the sound coming from your computer will be a bit tinny, but in my book that's all part...
...systems to hard-of-hearing customers, Bernstein has purchased her own infrared unit. She's also bought a personal fm unit for lectures: the speaker wears a small microphone, which transmits via radio waves to a receiver connected to a loop Bernstein wears around her neck, which sends the signal to the telecoils in her hearing aids. She uses a caption decoder on her television, attends captioned theater performances and asks people to e-mail her messages rather than leave them on her telephone answering machine. Perhaps the most difficult listening environment is a noisy party or restaurant gathering, where...
...caving in to Big Coal so early in his administration on such an important issue, Bush has also given a signal that he can be pushed around by special interests. His efforts thus far to prevent businesses from inserting loopholes into his proposed tax cut have been undermined; if coal and oil lobbyists are so persuasive, others are certainly not far behind...
...most countries, such vitriol would signal the ugliest of scandals, perhaps involving choirboys. Father Ly's crime? Challenging the government. Last month, the priest sent a letter to U.S.Congressmen urging them to reject ratification of a bilateral trade agreement until Vietnam grants greater freedom of worship. Hanoi's retaliation against Father Ly was swift, but it may be backfiring and could dim chances for the treaty's ratification. Members of the U.S. House of Representatives' powerful International Relations Committee have vowed to bring up the issue in hearings that could start as early as next month. The action against Father...