Some of the newer digital models have 360-degree scanning, for example, which allows the device to scan automatically for a dominant voice say, the back-seat driver and emphasize the sound coming from there.

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With events like "Silly Olympics, " the camp puts kids back in the driver's seat.

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Google experimented a lot during that decade, and now that Page is back in the driver's seat, he appears to have gotten that out of his system.

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Making full use of the fact that it fields the most powerful army in the country and owing as well to the US's decision to abandon the pro-Western March 14 movement in favor of an approach that makes no distinction between America's friends and foes in Lebanon, Hizbullah strong-armed its way back to the driver's seat in the new Lebanese government.

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The taxi had been stopped at a light with a passenger in the back when the suspect allegedly entered the front seat and struck the driver in the face, the official said.

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Ten minutes later, gunmen attacked a white Honda Pilot coming from the same party, killing its driver, Jorge Salcido, and wounding his two young children in the back seat.

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Though the kids sit in the driver's seat and even steer the car sideways, a hidden rail underneath always guides them back to the middle.

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The taxi driver who finally chauffeured me home was pleasant enough, although a stark notice on the back of the seat reminded me that it would not be wise to push my luck.

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