Word: allowed
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...will allow postering for candidates. Both the College Democrats and Republicans will set up tables with literature. Students will also be able to register to vote in the forum during the debates...
...believed in it because his idea was so simple: a program that would allow computer users to swap music files with one another directly, without going through a centralized file server or middleman. He'd heard all the complaints about how frustrating it was to try to find good music on the Net, how so many of the pointers on websites offering current (which is to say copyrighted) music seem to lead only to dead ends. But Fanning figured out that if he combined a music-search function with a file-sharing system and, to facilitate communication, instant messaging...
Perhaps. But peer-to-peer file sharing, it's now clear, is here to stay. Even if Napster is driven out of business, there are new, even more intractable sharing systems--notably Gnutella and Freenet--that allow files to be traded directly from PC to PC, without going through a single website like Napster's. These renegade services would be harder to shut down because they have no centralized plugs to pull, no company officers to sue. Former Public Enemy rapper Chuck D got it right: trying to stop file sharing over the Internet, he says, "is like trying...
Bryant is not your typical home buyer. She is very poor, and previously lived in a decrepit shack with openings large enough to allow animals to walk through. But Mockbee, 55, is not your average architect. A recent recipient of a "genius" grant from the MacArthur Foundation and an architecture professor at nearby Auburn University, he is a man with a mission. Rural Studio finds people and communities in need of buildings and, using inexpensive and unusual materials, designs structures that are practical and affordable, but at the same time unconventionally beautiful...
KILLING RISK Bucking an 18-year ban on trading stock futures, the SEC and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission have agreed to allow such trading--pending congressional approval. Futures allow stock traders to purchase the option of buying or selling a stock at a specific price on a future date, regardless of market price. The allure of these options is that they help neutralize the risk of trading. Given the markets' gyrations lately, any hedge against the unexpected is probably worth looking into...