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...generate a tax subsidy. The IRS allows the deduction, even though the manufacturing actually takes place abroad. Software lobbyists sold the change as one that would encourage the creation of high-wage, high-skilled U.S. jobs. It won't, although the company's workers in Ireland, who make CDs and floppy diskettes for sale in Europe, surely are grateful...
...stage in Boston on November 5, one could see from the balcony that singer/percussionist Liz Berlin (the only woman in the group) wore a small, shimmery crown of mylar stars on her head. Cute, yes. Appropriate, sure. But also very symbolic. Earlier that evening, while signing posters and CDs at the Kenmore Square Strawberry's, one particularly enthusiastic fan had presented Liz with the shiny crown. Clearly, Rusted Root is not a band that takes its fans for granted...
...enter the Quincy House bedroom of Kane H. Waller '99, one must first wade through a curtain of bamboo beads strung over the doorway. A huge entertainment system greets the visitor with a 30-inch screen television, VCR, Sony Playstation, CDs and "essential movies" like Friday and The Nutty Professor...
...probably heard about DVD, the digital video format that allows full-length movies to be squeezed onto CDs. But chances are you don't own a DVD player--yet. Only around 700,000 people have bought one in the year since they were introduced. So what hope is there for the even newer (and curiously kludgy) format known as Divx...
First, why would anyone want to get rid of his old reliable videotape player? For the same reasons that music lovers upgraded from record players to audio CDs: superior quality, compact storage and the ability to hop quickly to a precise spot in the programming. I've been trying out a Panasonic DVD A310 ($599), and am surprised that the picture really does look twice as good as those blurry images my half-as-expensive, suddenly depressing VCR has been grinding out. That's because VHS recorders typically display movies at about 240 lines of resolution; digital video paints...