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This last point was especially true on “Fuel for Fire,” from Ward’s last album, “Transistor Radio.” The song’s swelling lonesomeness was amplified by Ward’s plaintive harmonica playing; in devoting an entire verse to the instrument, he showed off a formidable instrumental talent that added a fresh layer to Ward’s antiqued radio-sentimentalism. “Helicopter,” from the quieter “Transfiguration of Vincent,” also benefited from some harp...
...there's an emotional appeal, basic research is well beyond the time span of the next election," says Craig Barrett, chairman of Intel. "There is a very emotional attachment to research on cancer or chronic illnesses. It's much more difficult to say, What will the structure of the transistor look like in the next 15 years...
...most important take-home message: survivors of a major emergency will probably need to fend for themselves for the first few days after calamity strikes. The goal is to get as many San Franciscans as possible to assemble--and keep current--a basic emergency kit, including a flashlight, a transistor radio, spare batteries, canned goods and, above all, enough water to last at least three days. "If Hurricane Katrina didn't prove it to you, I don't know what will," says Newsom. "When disaster strikes, we're all going to be on our own for a minimum...
That may sound like a simple enough statement, but it represents a profound revolution in the way the Santa Clara, Calif., chipmaker--long the powerhouse of Silicon Valley--does business. Forty years ago this April, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore predicted that given advances in transistor miniaturization, computer processors should double in speed every 18 months. Not only did Moore's law become the most trustworthy truism in technology, it was also the rock on which all Intel marketing was founded. Why did you need a PC with an Intel Pentium II processor? Because it was four times as fast...
...yard. In one cell in Block 8, 10 inmates sit back on their bunks in brown overalls, staring silently at a wall-mounted television, smoking aromatic cheroots and cheap Israeli cigarettes. The 8-m-by-11-m room is festooned with bath towels and tracksuits. Each man owns a transistor radio and earphones, and little else. The men reel off the dates of their incarcerations. All were jailed before the 1993 signing of the Oslo peace agreement and that, they argue, makes them prisoners of a war that ended by treaty, and they ought to have been freed long...