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...premise behind Fortress, a $30 lie-detector program you can download from www.digitalrobotics.com to your PC and use to test your friends and family (with their consent, of course) or sound bites pulled off the Net, TV or radio. It analyzes recordings in any language. Beeps during playback signal an effort to deceive...
Instead, they were hearing the sounds of WHRB-FM, Harvard's student radio station. Coming from a backup transmitter on top of Holyoke Center, for a brief time WHRB's signal was picked up by telephones, computers and turned-off radios in some areas of the Yard...
...result of switching to the Holyoke Center transmitter was a phenomenon called "blanketing," common near large FM transmitters. Audio equipment and other electronic devices located close to a transmitter may receive the signal and begin broadcasting it without being tuned to the station...
...sitting at my computer, and I had some music playing," said Matthew R. Polisson '02, a resident of Grays Hall. "I turned off the music but my speakers were still on, and I was getting some radio signal pretty clearly. You could hear songs and voices. It was pretty weird...
Book and magazine publishers often follow a hypocritical convention of burying the scoop deep in the text--to signal that they're not really about anything so vulgar and transitory as news. Then they launch a publicity barrage, invariably including a press release written in traditional journalistic "pyramid style"--that is, with the scoop on top, where it belongs. ("ALBRIGHT SAYS CLINTON NEVER TOUCHED HER. In her just published memoir, Woman of the World, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright denies reports in former White House press secretary Mike McCurry's recent memoir, The Soul of Discretion, that President Clinton...