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Chris Goggin, who heads his own research and engineering company in Wilmington, N.C., is working on a different method of transmission; a radiowave-powered switch that can wirelessly control small devices such as locators or sensors. Goggin, a semi-finalist for the History Channel's annual Modern Marvels Invent Now Challenge this year, says state officials could get data from the sensors directly at the push of a button and a radio signal would act as a transmitter, putting the bridge's sensor information into an e-mail sent straight to their inbox. "You wouldn't need helicopters or lights...
What's on your iPod these days? -Rob Liston in Hamilton, OntarioIt's very, very mixed. There's Bulgarian music, there's songs from Pakistan. I switch from track to track depending on what my particular mood needs. It's very broad. There's music from the Middle East, from the Ottoman Empire, from India and there's some very English stuff as well. There's some of the stuff my sons send me that I put on there. I've got a good musical ear, so I can listen to most things...
Research has also shown, though, that you can at least partially predict how bumpy that path will be. It's simple: calm is usually followed by more calm, and volatility by more volatility. We may have just made the switch from calm days to volatile ones...
...about the war at its annual meeting. Not one of the DLC's 20 issue symposiums was about foreign policy. The emphasis was on state governance, issues like health care and alternative-energy development. The current DLC stars are Governors of crucial states-Arizona, Colorado, Arkansas, Tennessee-that could switch from red to blue in 2008. Any Democratic nominee would want to court them...
...First thing he said when I sat down in his office was, ‘So, tell me, Isa, what I need to do in this meeting to get you to switch to history,’” Chaves wrote. “Fifteen minutes later I dropped my would-have-been government sophomore tutorial like a hot brick...