Word: allowed
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...successful in becoming the enabler of the digital jukebox, it will most likely have to abandon the "special sauce" that made it so successful, P2P file sharing. Napster pioneered P2P as a workaround to the objections of the recording industry, which would have rather brought back disco than allow one Metallica track to be downloaded. Now that the industry has (belatedly) jumped on the musical broadband bandwagon, there's no reason for Napster to stay P2P. As users know, MP3's on Napster are often misidentified and of poor quality. If Napster distributed songs off its own servers, which...
IMPACT: Abortion will probably remain legal, but with more limitations. Vouchers for religious schools could be found constitutional, and the court could allow some prayer in schools. Affirmative action may be struck down or further limited, as could many federal laws that encroach upon state power, such as the Clean Air and Water Acts and the Americans with Disabilities...
PLAN: Use about half the Social Security surplus--roughly $1 trillion--to allow young workers to invest one-sixth of their payroll taxes in private accounts...
PLAN: Insure more low- and middle-income children through the Children's Health Insurance Program, and allow CHIP parents to buy subsidized coverage. Pass a patients' bill of rights with the right to sue. Add a prescription benefit to Medicare, and lock away $435 billion to ensure that it stays solvent...
...popularity, the IM world remains frustratingly balkanized. At least a dozen systems are in service in the U.S. alone, many of them incompatible. This confusion adds to the pressure on AOL--which popularized instant messaging and commands a 90% share of the market--to allow rivals like Yahoo and Microsoft access to its IM systems. These cover some 80 million users under the AOL brand and a similar number under ICQ, an Israeli company that AOL bought two years ago. Says MacDonald: "AOL's installed base is the crown jewels of instant messaging...