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'Image' of the faithful

If you're a sucker for strong melodies, Mere Image clocks 11 tracks of accessible music. If you don't like drab pop-rock that plays it safe, “You can't get put on rotation for radio play without being signed.” When Record joined the band with new ...

Early Hanford worker turns 100

One that impressed his neighbor Teri Kessie is a tool he built to grasp and lift down wall clocks, allowing him to change the time without climbing on a step ladder. To help Hanford workers he and a co-worker came up with and built a device that ...

Theater Review: The Radio City Music Hall New York Spring Spectacular Is Not ...

To be fair, the visual technology, involving a 50-foot “flying 3-D LED wall” and a “master clock” to control it “to within a millionth of a second,” is sensational and often delightful, as when, at the Met, several ballerinas sneak out of their Degas ...

Countdown to March: Life and Death with a Small Town Team

If you drive around Valparaiso and stop in at places like Schoop's on Calumet, or Around the Clock on Lincolnway, you'll find faded photographs of these heroes, former basketball and football stars gazing at the camera with the vague awareness that ...

Bruins Bury Hurricanes in Overtime

With just 22 ticks remaining on the clock in the second, the Hurricanes tied it up when Nathan Gerbe buried his 8th goal of the season on a 2-on-1 with Chris Terry. Due to Gerbe's goal, the teams would head to the room tied 1-1 and with the Hurricanes ...

In Portland, Iotas' pre-wired smart apartments let you rent the high-tech life

One reason the system isn't integrated with Nest is that the building's Cadet heaters – kind of like in-wall space heaters – aren't compatible with the smart thermostat. Instead, Pike If you fire up the radio in your bathroom every morning ...

Adventure Touring in Namibia

Adding caffeine and a plate full of refined sugar to a system running close to the redline on adrenaline and endorphins could be a lethal combination, but somehow we all managed to stay controlled as the sun started to sink and we rode for the lodge ...

McDonald's wage plan renews debate on independence of franchisees

"McDonald's is pretty unique in terms of its control over its franchisees. It micromanages, controlling things like when workers clock out and clock in ... restaurant analyst for Bernstein Research, a Wall Street research firm. She said that fast-food ...