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...country and no rap? It turns out that Sonicnet has its own intrinsic ratings for each artist; all your initial choices do is move these ratings up or down a star. At least you can pan artists as they're playing, making sure they don't play again, or skip ahead if your ears are hurting. But I won't be handing out the Web address for Taylor Radio until I've done a lot more fine-tuning...
Second, there is something about attending class that makes learning the material more interesting and attractive. A student loses out on the ability to ask questions when the lecture is watched from behind a screen. It is true that students who skip lecture will use the video to learn the material. But students who choose to miss class would miss class whether the lecture is broadcast or not. The decision to sleep through a class does not depend on whether that class is videotaped. Students know that they can get the notes if they miss class; by having the class...
...SONY MUSIC CLIP The first of the portable digital music players to really show us what makes them so cool. They're tiny, they're light, they don't skip even when you jog, and they look like something Q would issue to Agent 007. Nobody does it better...
...America on Nov. 27 wearing only cargo pants, a wool hat and boots. He either forgot a shirt or figured his smokin'-hot abs would keep him warm. Unexpectedly balmy conditions, however, made the ice cave unstable, and doctors implored Blaine to don an emergency sweater. Reluctantly, he obliged. Skip ahead 60 hours: Blaine made his egress during a live ABC special that included quotes from Martin Luther King Jr. and beefcake shots of the mystifier atop a volcano. With cameras jostling for shots, Blaine, Rocky-style, called for his girlfriend and gave her a kiss before being whisked...
Take a look at what your eyes are doing right now. It's known as saccadic jumping--the way they skip across the page from left to right before some unseen hand comes in and pushes them to the start of the next line, like the ball on an old typewriter. It's something you've done your whole life. But is it really the most efficient way to read...