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...connector into the audio-out jack of my music player and listened to the Beats alongside the 3s. While the bass notes were comparable for both sets of 'phones, it was really the upper ranges where the stylish Beats styled. In fact, the difference was so pronounced that even my wife (who generally identifies music as "that noise" and who sighs dramatically whenever the source of it is shut off) could hear the sweetness. I could hear whole orchestras in the upper frequencies, whereas with the Bose 'phones, the sound was flat and muted. I don't mean...
Changes at the FBI Keeping a promise to increase the diversity in the fbi's upper ranks, Director Louis Freeh promoted a woman, a Hispanic man and an African-American man to assistant directorships at the agency...
Friends also note that ''there is a great deal of sharing at home'' between Oakley and his wife Phyllis, now the second ranking State Department official for refugee programs. When dinner's over, says Murphy, ''he's the fastest washer-upper in the business.'' After last week, it was clear that distinction applies to more than just dirty dishes...
...some battleground states for which new registrations by party are available, there is a comparable shift underway. Iowa, the most important swing state in the upper Midwest, has seen Democratic registration grow by about 68,000 since 2004 while Republican registration has dropped by nearly 27,000. (Bush won the state by about 10,000 votes in 2004.) In New Hampshire, which Kerry won in 2004 by about 9,000 votes, Democratic registration is up by 35,000 while new Republican voters number less than 2000. In Nevada, which Bush won by 21,000, Democrats have enrolled...
Cassel Kroll, 37, waited in line for three hours Friday morning at the AT&T store on Manhattan's Upper East Side to purchase his new high-tech toy. It would be another five hours before he could get it fully working. "I haven't figured out how to use this thing properly," Kroll told TIME at the end of the business day on Friday. Although he was able to make phone calls, when he tried to load applications onto the new phone, he received a perplexing error message stating that applications in his iTunes library could not be installed...