By using tricks such as listening to music, people can continue to feel good even slightly past their ventilatory threshold, Dr. Ekkekakis and his colleagues have found.

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Still, he may take some comfort from the fact that the University of Pathein has finally reopened and is thronged with students, who, on the Saturday evening I was there, crowded the teashops along the road leading to the campus gates, chatting, reading, flirting and listening to noisy music as students do the world over.

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Kirkpatrick also commented on the fact that the music industry is missing the boat completely by failing to notice that iPods and other portable audio players are actually creating a bigger potential market, because people are listening to more music, as they wrap themselves tighter in their white plastic cocoons.

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In the music industry, a generation has grown up acquiring and listening to music through digital downloads and streaming as CD sales rapidly declined.

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We also need to keep in mind what services rank the highest (Email, Search and getting Health information online), as well as the fastest growing (Using social networks, and listening to music online) in our design of future business service offerings.

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"Sony has been committed to high resolution music since its inception, ' noted Charles Speidel, vice president of Sony Electronics Home Audio Video business, "The R-series of loudspeakers are designed to recreate music as faithfully as possible, delivering an unparalleled listening experience for those devotees who truly care about music.

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You can connect two music sources to the transmitter, as well as establish two separate listening zones.

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