Conceptually audacious, elegantly designed, executed with space-age precision, and remarkably compact, Grand Prix Audio's direct-drive Monaco turntable ($19,500) aims to turn the tables on the belt-drive designs that have dominated analog playback for three decades.

Conceptually audacious, elegantly designed, executed with space-age precision, and remarkably compact, Grand Prix Audio's direct-drive Monaco turntable ($19,500) aims to turn the tables on the belt-drive designs that have dominated analog playback for three decades.

Apparently they pay off.

A family in Wales went to the beach last July and discovered an intact P-38 that went down in 1942.

Robert Cialdini's science of persuasion.

Those impressive profilers you see on TV and the movies? In reality, they're not quite as effective as they're portrayed—not by a long shot.

<I>"Rave on down through the corridors,<BR>
"Rave on words on printed page!"</I>&mdash;Van Morrison, "Rave On John Donne"

The Cassini-Huygens probe has been recording the sounds of Saturn. My cats, who are thoroughly bored by everything audio (other than the gear's heat-generating properties), were quite agitated by these sounds. Good to know, <I>hee hee hee</I>.