...nt of a visit to the mechanic’s shop. 10 Some might remember global retailer Radio Shack’s “75-in-1 Electronic Project Kit,” which was a piece of card... ...o one another, reconfiguring the board to imi- tate any number of appliances: radio, doorbell, lie detector, 12 or metronome. The all-important instruc... ...nnovations. During the 1940s, inventor Tom Carter sold and installed two-way radios for com- panies with workers out in the field. As his business caug... ... a cer- tain measure of trust: trust that at least some third-party software writers will write good and useful code, and trust that users of the devi... ... accounted for an estimated 80 percent of the world’s total e-mail. 59 North American PCs led the world in De- cember 2006, producing approximately 46... ...demics, social analysts, and industry leaders surveyed by the Pew Internet & American Life Project in 2004 predicted serious attacks on network infras... ...amateurs and running on Internet servers has enabled amateur journalists and writers to prepare and cus- tomize chronological accounts of their work—“... ...o tinkering PC owners in their homes, had grown to include 20 percent of all Americans. Id. at 9. Among adult Internet users, meanwhile, 65 percent co... ...s monopoly for far less restrictive be- havior that gave its own application writers an advantage against independent software producers. See United S...

...rend. Consider music for instance. Streaming audio on the internet ("soft radio"), or downloadable MP3 files may render the CD obsolete - but they w... ...loadable MP3 files may render the CD obsolete - but they were preceded by radio music broadcasts. But the novelty is that the Internet provides a ve... ...rs between the types of intermediaries are blurred. Barnes and Noble (the American bookstores chain) has, in effect, become a publisher. Many publis... ...ur lives. A century before the internet, the telegraph, the railways, the radio and the telephone have been similarly heralded as "global" and trans... ... The result was a globe encompassing network of academic institutions. The American Pentagon established the network of all networks, the ARPANET. Ot... ...lterior motives of members of the ruling political echelons (the infamous American Paranoia), a lack of variety and of catering to the tastes and in... ...ialog. For low volumes of messages, this is a good thing. But top-selling writers could not handle email from thousands of dedicated fans. Even in ... ...mediate feedback and for flowing, almost real-time, communication between writers and readers. The electronic version, therefore, acquires a gyroscop... ...mediate feedback and for flowing, almost real-time, communication between writers and readers. The electronic version, therefore, acquires a gyrosco...

...products in this book. Under the rubric "characteristics of innovations," several writers have isolated and discussed attributes possessed by ideas... ...to The New State of the Economy (Allvine and Tarpley 1977), Philip Kotler wrote: Americans will have to pay more attention to resource conservation... ...lives. (p. xiii) In the book the authors succinctly speak of reformulation of the American Dream such that our society will have “to expect less in... ...ng a seedbed of altruism upon which social marketing is nourished. For example, a radio spot quotes scripture, admonishing that whales were intende... ...intended to be fruitful and multiply ("Save the Whales" 1979): The materialistic American dream, while dominant, is not universal. Young adults sh... ... marketing seems to have earned for itself two different definitions (Luck 1974). Writers have applied the expression in one sense to mean the socia... ...sing on environmental conservation factors is that of Perry (1976). However, most writers agree with Takas (1974) who applies the expression societa... ... little to rely on other than rumored information. Newspapers, the telegraph, the radio are late inventions. Before their advent the public had to... ...luation of the use of propaganda depends on whose side the observer is on, as with Radio Free Europe, Voice of America and Radio Liberty broadcasts, ...

...s? Even the ones they claim to have been dictated by gods or aliens? Even if American copyright law requires “an author,” presumably a human one? 9 Ca... ...an being, for example? Or stuff that is collectively owned—would that be the radio spectrum or a public park? Or stuff that is owned by no one, such a... ...d iconoclastic cultural ferment in which independent artists, musicians, and writers can take their unique visions, histories, poems, or songs to the ... ...r the films of the Second World War, or footage on the daily lives of African-Americans during segregation, or the music of the Great Depression, or th... ...It is important to note, though, that the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century writers I have quoted were not against intellectual property. All of them... ... is not against using a lengthened copyright term to give an extra reward to writers, even if this would dramatically raise the price of books. What h... ...hey were successful. 36 As Yochai Benkler puts it, Alice Randall, an African American woman, was ordered by a government official not to publish her cr... ...could even argue that Napster users would have access to most songs over the radio for free. But lawyers’ quibbling about which way the rule cuts in t... ...tors, you can quickly reach the same num- ber of ears that the payola-soaked radio waves allow the record companies to reach. One need not cheer Groks...

...Action 126 4.5 Searching for Fresh Options 134 5. AL QAEDA AIMS AT THE AMERICAN HOMELAND 145 5.1 Terrorist Entrepreneurs 145 5.2 The “Planes O... ...79 The World Trade Center Complex as of 9/11 p. 284 The World Trade Center radio repeater system p. 288 The World Trade Center North T ower stairwell ... ...r stairwell with deviations p. 312 The Twin Towers following the impact of American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Penta... ...1 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Pentagon after being struck by American Airlines Flight 77 p. 313 American Airlines Flight 93 crash site, ... ...Ong did not.The hijackers probably did not know how to operate the cockpit radio communication system correctly, and thus inadvertently broad- cast th... ...ervice would have begun. At 8:51, American 77 transmitted its last routine radio com- munication.The hijacking began between 8:51 and 8:54.As on Ameri... ...ndisputably in charge of what remained of the MAK and al Qaeda. 27 Through writers like Qutb, and the presence of Egyptian Islamist teachers in the Sa...

...ent the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation?s capital at a time of great partisan division--have come together to present this repo...

...specially by the teenagers who find joy in murder. This also puts blame on American society because we are the ones who promote these types of movies ... ...we change our own lives. We don’t have to go to the theater or turn on the radio to hear about violence. All we have to do is tune into the news or pi... ...hem is reality. But more and more, the violence in the theaters and on the radio, is turning into that reality. We might be lucky enough not VIOLENCE ... ...rt hand method, and the “and that” words might have been left out. Student writers must be aware that spoken language and written language, especially... ...qually important to read in order to understand how to convey information. Writers need to read in order to learn how to write. As writers we need to ... ...ad in order to learn how to write. As writers we need to examine how other writers, successful writers, achieve their success. Even when we do not par...