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...white scarves tied around their heads vibrate to the music, thrusting their hips at passing Suzuki Samurais. The youths have now begun to slow up traffic, and police close in on them like parentheses. Is a confrontation brewing? One young reveler reaches into his car and turns up his stereo. The voice of Elephant Man, the latest local ragga star, blares out, heavy with attitude and thick with patois: "Badman nah run from police inna shootout/Whole crew a government see dem pon di lookout..." The youth smiles at the cops and keeps dancing...
...works in spurts. This week he's had three studio sessions of 19 hours or more. Last week he did a marathon 56-hour session. If he didn't go to the parking lot for the occasional car-stereo listening test, he'd have no idea whether it was night or day. In his truck, he declares Truck Volume ready to go. "This s___ should come with some Tylenol...
...field of developmental psychology almost since she began her career. During graduate school at Cornell in the 1970s, Spelke answered a long-standing question about what babies perceive by looking at “simple, naturally occurring behavior.” Using two television screens and a stereo, she proved that babies could connect their senses and tell that a person who was talking was the same as the person at whom they were looking...
...guess the first time I noticed that boys are different from girls was shortly after I married. My wife had gone with me on what I thought would be a happy chore: buying a new stereo. We went to one of those electronics stores, the kind that has rack after rack of receivers attached to an infinite array of speakers. The men, heads cocked in concentration like prairie dogs before an approaching storm, stood in front of the speakers, which were turned up really, really loud. The women, including my wife, stood behind us, looking as if their teeth were...
...hands-free options for business-minded motorists. Nokia offers an "earbud" headphone with hanging mike ($29.95) and car kits ($119-$199) that let drivers chat hands-free once they've dialed. The Cellport 3000 with Voice Command from Cellport Systems ($249) connects most cell phones to a car's stereo speakers and provides voice-activated phone and e-mail access. Plantronics' boom mike and earbud headphones ($29.95-$64.95) boast superior acoustic seals between your ear and the headphone. By April 2002, Plantronics promises that its Bluetooth M1000 ($149.95; pictured), a wireless earset, will let drivers operate compatible devices, from cell...