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...Blood on the Tracks” — Dylan’s heart-wrenching 1975 post-divorce album. I only knew a few of the songs, but my leader—bearded, wild and anti-intellectual—kept urging me to buy it. He borrowed my walkman to listen to “tangled up in blue” on Mollie’s mix tape over and over, smacking his hands on the dashboard in time to the music. And at the end of the trip we made memory sheets for each other...
...tech, should be an obvious opportunity for online-music sales. A survey by Japan's Nikkei Business Daily found that 47% of respondents would buy music from iTunes if they could. But Sony, the obvious candidate for market leadership (after all, Sony invented the portable music market with the Walkman), has been cautious. The company recently introduced a pair of updated hard drive portable players, the Network Walkman and Vaio Pocket, and earlier this year Sony Music Entertainment relaunched the Mora online store it runs with other labels, which currently offers 70,000 songs for about $1.44 each (iTunes sells...
...likes to have his boss looking over his shoulder. But Shigeki Ishizuka, head of Sony's digital-camera division, says he is unfazed whenever Shizuo Takashino--Sony's executive deputy president and one of the legendary team that created the Walkman--drops by. "I look forward to seeing him," Ishizuka says with a laugh, adding that he is always prepared for Takashino's frequent suggestion to "make it smaller...
...today, but chic competitors are just around the corner. The Rio Carbon, available in late August for $249, looks like a silver cigarette lighter with curved edges and has 5 GB of memory--1 GB more than the iPod mini for the same price. And Sony's Network Walkman, a 20-GB device with a squared-off design, goes on sale this month for $399. That's $100 more than a new 20-GB iPod, but the Sony is lighter and smaller. Sony claims that the battery lasts for up to 30 hours between charges, vs. about...
...Martin, who heads the VA's Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Outpatient Services team for the greater Los Angeles area. Avoidance is a classic symptom of PTSD, she says. "They are 21 years old, and they say, 'All I want to do is play my Walkman and go to school.'" Or they act dutifully: "It's 'Yes, ma'am; no, ma'am; thank you, ma'am; see you around." It's not unusual for veterans suffering from PTSD to wait a year before seeking help--like a 24-year-old Marine corporal Martin knows who was discharged after finishing...