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DISC THROWING So did you finally go out and buy a DVD player? Well, now a consortium of electronics makers is working on a new, incompatible DVD standard. The platform will play only so-called Blu-ray discs, which are encoded using short-wavelength blue-violet lasers to burn extra-narrow tracks of data. The new discs will hold roughly 27 gigabytes--about five times standard capacity, or enough room for 13 hours of TV shows. Look for new Blu-ray players in late 2003, if you have any room left on your component shelf...
...biology concentrator from Arlington, Texas, Carter plays the role of Violet Sarbloo in the current Hasty Pudding Show “Snow Place Like Home” and is a secretary on the Leverett House Committee...
...conscious are you about how you look, how you present yourself? To do my job well those things certainly help. For instance, how will investors have confidence in the Philippines if they see the President in blue jeans all the time, or with violet hair, or unkempt. I see it as part of my job. I'm not a fashion victim. I'm not someone who follows fashion and who spends two hours in front of the mirror to look good. I dress well to present a good and crisp face to the world while representing my country...
...spite of this sophisticated structure, Clowes keeps the focus on characterization. The various inhabitants include Random Wilder, the eccentric would-be poet laureate; Violet Van der Platz, the insecure, love-lorn teenage girl; Charles, the hyper-articulate and aware sixth-grader; and Mr. Ames, the mono-maniacal private investigator. Each has their own story to tell, along with half a dozen other characters, including "Rocky" the town's inhabitant in 100,000 B.C. "There goes Ogg," he thinks, "'Mr. Sunshine' - what's his secret? I'll kill him." Between them all Clowes builds another of his hilariously slightly off-center...
...noises of jackhammers, traffic, spinning pan covers and locomotives. Edgar Varse combined visual art with musique concrete for his “Pome electronique,” which was commissioned for the Brussels World Fair in 1958 and combined electronic voice manipulation and pulse generation with film projectors, ultra-violet lights and hundreds of fluorescent lamps in various colors. John Cage’s “prepared piano” (which involved the insertion of nails, bolts, nuts, screws and bits of rubber, leather and wood in the strings of an ordinary grand piano to create innovative percussive sounds...