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That led the Canadian student to quit his summer job at IBM and build Fairtunes fairtunes.com) a website where you can send money to your favorite artists in payment for music downloads. Enter your credit-card details, type in how much you want to send, and Fairtunes will cut checks and track down artists anywhere in the world on your behalf (most artists, like Bjork, cash them; some, like Ani DiFranco, ask for them to be redirected to charity; a few, like U2, ignore the checks altogether...
...meantime, cash-strapped U.S. firms are finding creative ways to meet the demand for power, securing cheaper sources of natural gas (the fuel for many power plants) in Canada and Mexico rather than financing new development domestically. U.S. firms spent more than $27 billion last year buying Canadian oil and gas companies, and the government of Mexico is considering 18 separate U.S. proposals to bring to the Baja peninsula liquefied-natural-gas terminals, which would receive shipments from all over the world and pipe gas to the U.S. European and U.S. energy firms have at least that in common: they...
...mishaps: a U.S. bombing raid mistakenly killed more than 10 civilians, and more than 300 British soldiers were quarantined after 38 were struck down by a contagious gastric illness. CHINA Confusion Says Three North Koreans who sought asylum in a U.S. consulate in Shenyang, and two others at the Canadian embassy in Beijing, were finally allowed to fly to South Korea via Singapore. But confusion surrounded the fate of five other North Korean defectors seized by Chinese police in the grounds of the Japanese consulate in Shenyang. Japan demanded the Chinese hand them back, but talks over their fate stalled...
...volume of "King," (Fantagraphics Books; 72pp.; $11.95) Ho Che Anderson's three-part "interpretive biography" of Dr. Martin Luther King. Now, ten years after volume one we have the penultimate chapter. (Anderson intends to release part three next year.) Historical biography with African-American characters, created by an African-Canadian artist who has kept us waiting a decade for its continuation: if comic prices are truly based on scarcity each copy of this book will be worth thousands...
...Cuban economy has struggled since the collapse of its Soviet patron, and the recent coup attempt on Castro's Venezuelan ally President Hugo Chavez - in which Havana's lifeline to cheap oil was briefly cut - was a reminder of Cuba's continued vulnerability. The growing presence of European, Canadian and Latin American investors and the government's see-sawing policy toward small Cuban entrepreneurs signals the inevitability of capitalist reforms...