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Vana is taking six classes this semester, including Arabic, Persian, Classic Armenian, a sophomore tutorial, a junior tutorial and a Near Eastern studies class. Yet Vana thinks this semester will be pretty easy. “Language classes are great because you don’t have to worry about a curve or being in the top percentile. You either learn the language or you don?...
...fashionable and impressionable youth of the world, introducing the fragrance Burberry Touch a couple of years ago. If dressing oneself in the old check pattern is not enough to satisfy diehard fans, Burberry Barbie—who sports a plaid kilt, scarf and bag and is “classic in every sense of the word”—is available for $88 from www.dollsanddarlings.com. A pattern once appropriate only on Grandfather’s coat has quickly become a popular bikini design over the past several years. “Getting our bikini on Kate Moss...
...strategy of “classic, face-to-face lobbying” with Congress and their...
...long been ready, but receivers have been scarce and expensive as electronics firms hesitated. "Manufacturers were not ready to make the radios until they had proof of a huge market," says Quentin Howard, ceo of Digital One, the U.K.'s first commercial digital network. "It's been a classic catch-22 situation." But with cheaper receivers and growing content, the British market is set to explode. While the U.K. is digital radio's first big test, much of the rest of Europe isn't far behind. The Swiss consultancy Prognos forecast that once receivers are widely available the Western European...
...waves free from interference. The result is a CD-like broadcast unmarred by the hiss, static and drift that bedevil analog stations. And because digital uses little bandwidth, it allows for the transmission of many more channels. Niche stations already available in Britain range from all-film music to classic rock to One Word, a station that features audio books. Advertisers are keen to embrace digital radio because its increased market segmentation will let them target specific audiences. Text and pictures can be transmitted with the audio signal as well, which should provide additional advertising and e-commerce revenues...