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...living room knows too much about me. It knows that I listen to cheesy love songs by Rod Stewart and that I am hooked on show tunes from the Mamma Mia! original-cast recording. It remembers which songs I play five times in a row and which ones I skip altogether. The Bose Lifestyle 48 - available in Britain next month for $7,094 - understands all this because it comes with uMusic, an "intelligent playback system" that stores hundreds of CDs on a hard drive and can learn its owner's musical tastes. The Lifestyle system is aimed at an affluent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Stereo with a Brain | 9/16/2004 | See Source »

Breast cancer grows so slowly in an older woman, say doctors, that she can skip the radiation therapy most women endure after surgery. In two studies in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers followed breast-cancer survivors whose small tumors had been treated with lumpectomy and tamoxifen--with or without radiation. In nearly 8% of women ages 50 and older, cancer came back in the same breast without radiation; with treatment, the relapse rate was less than 1%. In women ages 70 and up, only 4% relapsed without radiation, compared with 1% who had had treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Cancer Care: Is Less More? | 9/13/2004 | See Source »

...living room knows too much about me. It knows that I listen to cheesy love songs by Rod Stewart and that I am hooked on show tunes from the Mamma Mia! original-cast recording. It remembers which songs I play five times in a row and which ones I skip altogether. Called the Bose Lifestyle 48 and available this week for $3,999, the stereo understands all this because it comes with uMusic, an "intelligent playback system" that stores hundreds of CDs on a hard drive and can learn its owner's musical tastes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tech: A Stereo with a Brain | 8/23/2004 | See Source »

...your preferences, then creates customized presets that play songs you have indicated you like, as well as tunes from your collection that have a similar mood, melody or genre. It makes these calculations using a database that catalogs each song. If it guesses wrong, you hit the "--" button to skip a song and train the system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tech: A Stereo with a Brain | 8/23/2004 | See Source »

...theories of Deng Xiaoping to "give Arkansas a chance to catch up" to the rest of the U.S. Chinese readers may not realize the translation is not exactly faithful. Or they may be buying the phony book for the same reason Americans are snapping up the real one--to skip to the (also enhanced) parts about Monica...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beijing's Bubba Book | 8/9/2004 | See Source »

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