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...seemed only a few months ago that the CD player seemed guaranteed to be around for a while. Today industry experts aren't so sure. "There is a fear that MiniDiscs could knock out CDs, which have become a standard," observes Michael Riggs, executive editor of Stereo Review. "I would really prefer that it wouldn't happen because it might upset the investment people have made in CDs." A lot of other people would have that preference too, it seems safe...
...story, first published in TIME, set off what one airline called "a tidal wave" of concern. Can jets really be diverted from their flight paths by something as small as a battery-powered CD player? Or a video-game machine? Or any of a dozen electronic gadgets and computers that passengers regularly carry on board...
...Federal Aviation Administration, pressed by pilots to crack down on the gadgets, issued an advisory late last week that left it up to the airlines to set their own rules. Delta has already expanded its list of forbidden devices to include video playback machines and CD players. With the arrival of new "fly-by-wire" aircraft, which are heavily computerized and even more vulnerable to interference, passengers may have to go back to reading paperbacks and watching the in-flight movie...
SCOTT JOPLIN, JAMES SCOTT AND JOSEPH Lamb may have been the Big Three composers of the ragtime era, but there were a host of others, many of them (yes!) women. Twelve are represented on FLUFFY RUFFLE GIRLS, an irresistible CD by pianist Virginia Eskin (Northeastern). May Aufderheide, probably the best known of the dozen, showed with infectious rags like The Thriller! that she could crack knuckles with the big boys. Also noteworthy are two elegiac rags by the contemporary composer Judith Lang Zaimont, which prove there's life in the old genre yet. Eskin captures all the insouciant charm...
...CD player really send an airliner off course...