It was the music of rebellion and youth. Artists traded witty improvisations onstage chronicling the pain and the promise of being black in America, inspiring inner-city and rural Southern audiences alike in nightclubs and on street corners.
I launched SysOpt.com as a hobby business back when I was in high school. It was a community for tech-savvy people looking for tips to make their computers run faster.
Everyone experiences mood variations -- while you may feel cheerful and optimistic most of the time, you might occasionally feel grumpy, anxious, or dejected.
The complaint that won't die -- my quickie evaluation of Brett Favre's career, as something that could have been even greater. No rehash of the old ideas here, just an attempt to address the new complaints.
Management guru Jim Collins once called Steve Jobs the "Beethoven of business." He was marveling at the Apple founder's ability, time and again, to conjure digital objects of desire from esoteric blends of chips, disks, plastic, and software, and then promote them with his own alluring brand of performance art. But Jobs might also be called its Machiavelli, a man who can bend suppliers, partners, and even industries to his will.
Did someone kill Beethoven? A Viennese pathologist claims the composer's physician did -- inadvertently overdosing him with lead in a case of a cure that went wrong.
It was the music of rebellion and youth. Artists traded witty improvisations onstage chronicling the pain and the promise of being black in America, inspiring inner-city and rural Southern audiences alike in nightclubs and on street corners.
I launched SysOpt.com as a hobby business back when I was in high school. It was a community for tech-savvy people looking for tips to make their computers run faster.
Everyone experiences mood variations -- while you may feel cheerful and optimistic most of the time, you might occasionally feel grumpy, anxious, or dejected.
The complaint that won't die -- my quickie evaluation of Brett Favre's career, as something that could have been even greater. No rehash of the old ideas here, just an attempt to address the new complaints.
Management guru Jim Collins once called Steve Jobs the "Beethoven of business." He was marveling at the Apple founder's ability, time and again, to conjure digital objects of desire from esoteric blends of chips, disks, plastic, and software, and then promote them with his own alluring brand of performance art. But Jobs might also be called its Machiavelli, a man who can bend suppliers, partners, and even industries to his will.
Did someone kill Beethoven? A Viennese pathologist claims the composer's physician did -- inadvertently overdosing him with lead in a case of a cure that went wrong.
You might not understand the appeal when you first launch "Peggle," a computer game from PopCap Games, but give it 20 minutes and you won't be able to put your mouse down.
As we look back on 2006, one question: Where did all the good teams go? What an ordinary bunch of pseudo-winners. Never mind even a wannabe dynasty. Oh, what I would give for another bully of a team, a juggernaut, a steamroller. Where are the monsters of yesteryear?
Starting a business from scratch is the ultimate gamble, so before you throw in all of your chips, take some advice from a former airline executive who built a small business out of helping others build theirs.
Children's books don't always engage the audience they're intended for, which is why we asked 6-year-old Andrew Oglesby, son of CNN.com staffer Christy Oglesby, to review a selection of books for young readers.
It was the same room I'd waited in for Ibrahim al-Jaafari shortly before he was announced interim prime minister a little over a year ago. It was a large semicircular book-lined office set out with sumptuous gold covered armchairs and settees.
A donor has given Juilliard his collection of 139 handwritten manuscripts, including works by Mozart, Debussy, Beethoven, Brahms, Copland, Schubert and Sibelius.
A San Francisco antiques dealer dies under suspicious circumstances days before she is scheduled to lead a group of rich American tourists through Southeast Asia.
With the new U750P, Sony has made "portable" computing into something more than a euphemism—but just barely. Weighing in at a bit over one pound, three ounces, the U750P is about the size of a 350-...
1. Turkey. Most of the time you eat it sliced up in a sandwich, but once a year you get to tear into a mound of meat the size of a poodle. That takes us back to the days when a person's cave was hi...
The Beatles arrived in America with wits blazing. Here are some excerpts from the group's press conference at New York's Kennedy Airport, February 7, 1964:
It's a tried and trusted technique in the world of pop music these days. Take a young classically trained female musician; add a healthy dose of makeup, some club couture and you've got a star in the making.
I am often asked what it's like to be a full-blown, highly functioning narcissist. Well, it has its moments. On one hand, there's the pleasure of being the center of the universe, second only to Go...
There's no commandment that says thou shalt not pose nude!" says Garrett Morris over a dinner of crab cakes and pineapple juice at the tony Sugar Hill Bistro on 145th Street in Harlem. All around h...
I was seated with a group of fellow executives recently, immediately after breakfast, trying to listen to nonsense at that very early hour without falling asleep. This, of course, is our destiny, p...
Beethoven didn't take morphine, but poet John Keats used opiates. We know because new tests using people's hair--even the hair of people long dead--reveal a great deal about their health and person...
With dozens of recordings of Beethoven's string quartets already on the market, even the most ardent classical music fan has to wonder: Do we really need another collection of these works? Well, we...
Imagine a traditional acoustic piano that can, at the push of a button, play Rhapsody in Blue with the same flair and feeling of Gershwin himself. It can also record the exact way your child's pian...
The shimmering silver compact disks look just like those that play music; their player-machine, like another black box for your stereo rack. But this gear gets hooked up to your television set. And...
In the fall of 1993, an unusual group of youngsters will enter kindergarten at Beethoven Elementary School on Chicago's South Side. They will come, as most South Side kids do, from wretched urban p...
Roll over, Beethoven, and tell Mick Jagger the news. Just about anyone can sound symphonic with the remarkable device shown below. And if your favorite opening bars are not to the master's Fifth bu...
''WHAT DO YOU expect for 300 calories?'' asks the narrator of a new set of commercials running on television screens across the country. With Beethoven's ''Ode to Joy'' providing background flavor,...
THIS WINTER Ford Motor Co. will offer a windshield that clears itself of crusted ice in a matter of minutes. A layer of silver in the glass so thin it's invisible carries an electric current that h...
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