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Published on December 03, 2003

CASSETTES TO CDs

CASSETTES TO CDs?

Jeff West: “Now that you've made me an expert on using iTunes to ‘rip’ and ‘burn’ CDs, any ideas on how I can copy my cassettes to CDs?”


F Not a clue.  But I’ll bet if there’s a way, one of our terrific readers will enlighten us.

 

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WATCH WHAT YOU SAY

You will recall the gentleman our government is prosecuting for holding up a NO WAR FOR OIL sign in a “no-protest zone.”  In a similar vein, there’s this action against Greenpeace.

 

WATCH WHAT YOU BREATHE

Excerpted from Anchorage Daily News, November 26, 2003:

 

HOMER, AK -- A local businessman who had just finished testifying against a proposed smokefree ordinance collapsed with a heart attack in the council chambers and could not be revived.

 

Robert Keys, a former smoker, told a packed city council meeting that he sat at a table of smokers every morning for coffee and conversation at a local restaurant without trouble.  "It hasn't bothered my health any," Keys testified. . . . Keys returned to his seat in the council chambers. Less than five minutes later, gasping noises from Keys interrupted further testimony. . . .  Attempts to resuscitate [him] en route to the hospital were unsuccessful.

 

"It's a shocking, horrible tragedy," said Annette Marley, who attended Monday's meeting for the Homer Alliance for Fresh Air. "We can't make a causal relationship between his being around smokers and his death, but we know you have a 30 percent higher risk of dying of chronic heart disease if you're a nonsmoker exposed to smoke in the workplace."

 

F To support smokefree workplace laws where YOU live, click here.

 

WATCH HOW THEY COUNT THE VOTES
Paul Buddenhagen: “Paul Krugman has written the piece on potential voter machine fraud I had hoped you would write.  Can you point readers to his column?”

F Krugman frequently writes the pieces I had hoped I would write. 

 



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