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...during the week, according to ratings firm Arbitron. Viacom recently wrote down the value of its Infinity radio business by $10.9 billion, but terrestrial radio still hauls in around $20 billion a year in revenues, mainly from local advertisers like car dealers and banks, rendering it an important marketing tool and generator of free cash flow. Sirius, in contrast, forecasts revenues of just $210 million this year and an operating loss of $480 million. Moreover, the company is continually playing catch-up to XM, which has leapfrogged Sirius with its technology and consumer electronics and boasts its own compelling programming...
...system installed in a large Ford pickup truck looked more like a family-vacation outfit than a security tool. Each of four passengers had a color video screen and easy access to a small box with knobs and a joystick. Only this wasn't a game: it was part of a remotely operated weapons system. The screens display views from cameras atop the truck with a range, clarity and thermal-imaging capacity that permit operators to see what the human eye cannot. The joystick allows a gunner to aim the cameras and fire a machine gun, also mounted...
...statistics need to be humanized to inspire ordinary consumers to act, says Holdway: "The footprinting tool visualizes an individual's impact. Through the metaphor of soccer fields, any user can immediately understand the impact their lifestyle is having at a global level." Holdway has built a website www.weeeman.org) that allows people to calculate their own e-waste profile by entering the number of mobile phones and computers at their home, school or office. "Take only pictures, leave only footprints" has long been an environmentalist motto. Now, activists are hoping to erase even the footprints...
...know—started his affair with sharp objects at a young age. “In Cub Scouts I learned how to sharpen a knife,” he says. “I’ll never forget the thrill of getting a razor sharp tool.” He used his first chisel as a child in the garage of his rural Florida home. Now the official Woodshop Coordinator for the VES department, Stanulcompares working with a table saw to the fox trot...
...case. Yasukuni is controversial in Japan?some lawmakers say trips to the shrine are counterproductive. But others emphasize that those Japanese politicians who want to go to Yasukuni will never be compelled to stop simply because China asks them to. "China uses Yasukuni as a political tool," says Shingo Nishimura, a right-wing member of the DPJ. "We do not use it as a political tool. For us, it is a domestic and a religious matter. It is not something that is negotiable with the Chinese." As long as that remains the case, the chances of a lasting reconciliation between...