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UNCHAINED MELODY Napster taught millions of Americans how to turn CDs and other sound files into MP3s. For the rest of us, Archos makes the Jukebox Recorder ($350). It lets you create MP3s directly from a stereo or CD player, it's more compact than similar devices like the Nomad Jukebox and it has a built-in mike for voice recording. With six gigabytes of memory, the Recorder can even double as a backup hard drive...
...artists like Lee Krasner have created collages of bits of older paintings (she even used pieces of her husband Jackson Pollock's canvases), Craze's work is simultaneously an assault on tradition and a tribute to what's gone before. His listeners get the future and the past in stereo: the nostalgia of old songs and the excitement of hearing that music torn down and rebuilt for new generations. How many times can you hear the same song before you get sick of it? Craze offers music everlasting life--repetition without monotony, ecstasy without end. Pick up...Pick up...Pick...
...Later he jettisoned a Cuban wife with whom he had had two children. His communiques reveal that Roque grew impatient with his Miami mission because he missed a girlfriend back in Cuba. That, says Martinez, explains why, shortly before he disappeared, he got a deluxe haircut and bought a stereo, expensive suits and a Rolex watch. Both Roque and the Cuban government refused legal representation during the Martinez trial, so the award won't be appealed. Luis Fernandez, spokesman for the Cuban government in Washington, dismisses Martinez's claim as a "crank legal action." Martinez, an executive secretary, has published...
...player-piano music to make new melodies, or, at 13, disconnecting a console radio speaker and attaching a phonograph pickup. He bought his first Gibson guitar, an L-5 acoustic, which he promptly electrified. In local performances, he would wire his guitar to radios stage right and left: voil?, stereo! 'If you can be an engineer and a musician,' he told David John Farinella for a biographical sketch in 'The Encyclopedia of Record Producers' (Billboard Books, 1999), 'that's very complementary...
...factual findings on enhancements of penalties under the federal sentencing guidelines - he has found against the government. Another example, from 1987: Arizona v. Hicks. In that case, authorities, responding to reports of a shooting, entered an apartment without a warrant in pursuit of the shooter, saw some expensive stereo equipment while they were there, turned it around to get the serial numbers and found that it had been stolen. Scalia found the obtaining of the serial numbers to be an unconstitutional search; notice that once again it was a case involving the home...