Word: tapings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Roger McNamee, founder of the high-tech investment firm Integral Partners. "It has been difficult for its partners to work with, and for AOL itself to maintain." How can the company possibly hope to compete in the corporate networking market if its own network is held together with Scotch tape and baling wire...
...just such an invention. Morita watched as his children and their friends played music from morning until night. He noticed people listening to music in their cars and carrying large stereos to the beach and the park. Sony's engineering department was generally opposed to the concept of a tape player without a recording function (it would be added later), but Morita would not be denied. He insisted on a product that sounded like a high-quality car stereo yet was portable and allowed the user to listen while doing something else--thus the name Walkman...
What's behind the sudden revival of thousand-year-old remedies? At root, it's the fears and desires of 80 million aging baby boomers who are eager to seize control of their medical destinies. The perceived coldness and remoteness of conventional medicine and red-tape-tangled managed care make readily available herbs and other supplements seem particularly appealing. Consumers value them as preventive measures, as something distinct from potent pharmaceutical drugs that are prescribed only after disease strikes. "Doctors are getting more and more inaccessible," says Leda Jean Van Stedum, 45, a Denver secretary who was shopping...
...kills another on national television. What do the authorities do next? Answer: Very little. Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the retired pathologist who has admitted helping over 130 terminally ill patients end their lives, threw down the gauntlet to prosecutors Sunday after CBS's "60 Minutes" aired a tape in which Kevorkian commits the act himself. "Either they go," he said, "or I go." Kevorkian has been tried and acquitted three times on assisted suicide charges; his lawyer says he now wants to force a "high noon" confrontation with the police. If convicted, the self-styled Dr. Death says he will starve...
...closer one gets to Cambridge, the harder it is to escape bagel chains and venues of cashmere sweater sets. Stereo Jacks is a slight hike down Mass Ave from Porter, but the CD, record and tape collection is a refreshing change from the hum-drum top-40 adult contemporary hits of Tower records and even the ultra-trendy underground of In Your Ear. Jack Woker, the proud founder of this establishment, has been providing eccentric music-listeners with old favorites like "Fabulous Harmonica played by the Yama Yama Man" and "Serenades for Sex Kittens." In particular, the shop specializes...