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...second or third go-round, and this year marks the second try for its Windows XP Media Center Edition. When it debuted last year, Media Center was the first PC system nongeeks could operate like a combination TiVo--DVD player--music jukebox. This year's update enhances the photo slide show and adds a radio tuner. Better yet are two movie-download services and a program that lets you burn DVDs by using just the remote control. The user interface could still be improved, but with living-room-friendly PCs coming from Dell, Gateway and others, even DVD-equipped TiVos...
Leshner bombarded audience members with data on drug treatment in a 12-minute slide show in which he illustrated that addicts benefited from therapy whether or not they consented...
Night after night, the majority of American kids utterly fail to get enough sleep, which according to experts is 10 to 11 hr. a night for 6- to 12-year-olds and 9.25 hr. for teens (yes, researchers are that precise!). The temptation to let bedtime slide in the hope of capturing some elusive quality time is especially strong for working parents, who include 72% of moms. How much difference could an extra, say, 40 min. of awake time really make...
Still, Drums and Tuba never break away from the funk/jam mold, precisely because they underuse their titular instruments. Tony Nozero’s fluid beats are more of an undercurrent than a driving rhythmic force, too often overshadowed by McKeeby’s love affair with sliding on the electric guitar. Those excited to hear the tuba will be disappointed, as Brian Wolff’s instrument mostly fades into the background as a barely audible walking bass. In Wolff’s few moments in the spotlight, his lower register booms while higher notes often slide out of tune...
...slide show’s message is contained quite aptly in one image that shows a steak, a garnish of parsley, and asparagus. “Don’t tell me these advertisers don’t know exactly what they’re doing,” admonishes Ms. Adams as she flips to this image, apparently a comment directed at people like me who see, well, a steak with some vegetables. She lets her warning set in and then explains: the steak is really a “fragmentized referent” to the female body...