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...greed. When police started confiscating illegal satellite dishes earlier this month - ostensibly satellite is banned for its impure Western content - in about two days the whole city knew exactly why. The story went like this: the son of a prominent regime-connected ayatullah had recently begun importing small, laptop-size satellite dishes. If the government rounded up the ungainly, rooftop dishes, and flooded the market with the discreet little one, everyone would be forced to buy the ayatullah's son's dishes. This connection between regime piety and corrupt wealth dominates how Iranians see the world - the little events that...
...Many competitors sell products that are similar in size to the iPod nano, with features the nano doesn't yet have including video playback, voice recording and an FM tuner. Nevertheless, the cost has been the same, or just slightly discounted. SanDisk is one of the largest manufacturers of flash memory - the solid-state storage chips found in MP3 players, digital cameras, cell phones and USB drives - so it can compete seriously on price, where Creative or iRiver just can't. The $250 that would buy you a 4GB iPod will get you an 8GB Sansa...
...media converter also formats and transfers photographs for slideshows. Like the video player, it's a nice perk although it's limited on such a small screen. I wanted to copy full-size pictures directly, making it a useful device for carrying and displaying pictures, but I was foiled in the attempt. It turns out, you can load photos only through a media converter...
...media brought a palpable sense of outrage with the coverage from the very beginning," said Woods. "If you looked at NPR, CNN and scattered sightings of the networks and newspapers, where they did well was to recognize the size of the story and the need to stay with...
...Your Bra Doesn't Fit, Go Shopping That's the agenda behind all the bra-size propaganda you're hearing...