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...little guesswork to click the right buttons on foreign-language stations) and you'll be connected in about 30 seconds. As long as your Internet connection remains live, so will the radio broadcast. There can be disruptions due to Net congestion, which chops up the signal like old-fashioned static, and, if you're loading another page or working on a document, the stream may pause for a few seconds. Unless you hook up quality speakers, the sound coming from your computer will be a bit tinny, but in my book that's all part of the radio experience. Sometimes...
Census 2000 didn't ask for these details, and unless I missed it, did not include an essay portion. But after years of research, the Census Bureau, by introducing its Check All That Apply option, did advance its stated belief that race is not a static concept. Critics of CATA see it variously as a threat to social justice in its perceived dilution of nonwhite constituencies, or as race obsessed, or as a flaccid nod to the burgeoning ranks of mixed-race Americans. But I think the Census people were savvy. Or, really, credit goes to their overseeing agency...
Flip the dial to Harvard Radio WHRB 95.3 FM in Eliot, Winthrop or any other brick House on the river and it will most likely just come up static...
...court did require Napster to remove any songs copyrighted by recording companies. This is a tall order, given that Napster users name their own files and that "MysteriousWays.mp3" could be anything from U2 to static to uncopyrighted German techno. A poorly structured injunction could mean that Napster will be forced to shut down its service, unable to bear the costs of compliance...
More important, the NHTSA ratings are static, which means they do not take into account how a car handles. Consumers Union, the nonprofit organization that publishes Consumer Reports, last week criticized the ratings for this reason. Increasingly, the top-selling SUVs have a battery of onboard systems that help prevent a rollover, including antilock brakes, independent suspensions and computerized monitoring systems that adjust power to each wheel when a skid begins...