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...serious enforcement will be is another matter, of course. Laws in China have, in the past, been selectively enforced - copying and distributing CDs and DVDs may be technically illegal, but piracy is a thriving business. And the lucrative revenues offered by tobacco taxes - nearly 9 percent of the state's tax income in 2003 - are a tough habit for any government to kick. Public health experts, however, praised the ratification as an important step in lowering China's rising rates of lung cancer and tobacco-related disease. About 1.2 million Chinese die of smoking-related deaths annually and the World...
...finally returned--193 years overdue. The library waived the $10,000-plus late fee. But many libraries aren't as forgiving these days, squeezing delinquent borrowers by jacking up fines, hiring collection agents, threatening jail and even sending the sheriff to knock on doors and reclaim overdue books, CDs and DVDs...
...Larchmont Boulevard in Los Angeles' leafy Hancock Park neighborhood, and small clusters of girls gathered in front of Jamba Juice are sweeping the sidewalk with their floor-length skirts. Their T shirts are oversize and piled on in layers. And their sunglasses, with lenses nearly the size of CDs, cover their teenage faces. On the next block, boys with shaggy hair below their ears, wearing rock T shirts from bands that were performing before most of their parents could drive, practice tricks on skateboards...
...from Nicaragua signed by four former Sandinista cabinet members, there was a flavor of the past, but this was not your father's protest movement. Both sides boasted bloggers and internet radio show hosts, caterers, shuttle buses, tee shirt and bumper sticker production on a major scale, instant music CDs-patriotic or folk-and the hit of the day, saddammagnets.com, a set of refrigerator magnets featuring Saddam Hussein in his underwear...
...patriotism ("If we retreat, our country will fall") but sung to a beat 50 Cent would dig. A traditional marching song, Real Men, is sung by rising female singer Jinjoo?the only performer on the recording who isn't a soldier. The ministry says recruits will be given the CDs "to enjoy during leisure time." Barracks culture may still have a whiff of the 19th century, but its background music will be 21st...