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...Napster's heyday, pirated TV shows were a rarity on the Net. But that changed with the advent of broadband home connections, $40 TV tuner cards that snap into your PC and cheap ways to store data. Looking for episodes of Friends? The MPAA counted more than 5,000 locations on the Internet last year where people could download episodes for free. Using custom software to track copyright violations, it also found 4,000 sites for The Simpsons and 2,000 for The Sopranos. Big Pussy is not going to like that...
...cloner beware. Genetically reproducing a pet is not cheap. "The ones we do in the next year are going to cost five figures," says Hawthorne. Only later, when the procedures get streamlined, will costs drop. There are also technical problems. The Texas lab's 1-in-87 success rate is typical of cloning work, which can produce dozens of dead embryos for every living...
...brewing trade war, POSCO's exports to the U.S. could shrivel. Yet in the twisted calculus of steel politics, the company lobbying hardest for tariffs, USX-U.S. Steel, also has a stake in cheap POSCO imports. USS-POSCO, a California-based joint venture between the firms, buys most of the Korean steelmaker's hot-rolled coil imports, which the venture uses to make other products sold in the U.S. A spokesman for U.S. Steel wouldn't comment on the joint venture's viability should tariffs be imposed. But, says POSCO's Lee Chun Hwan, "[The venture] might...
...George W. Bush promised "to end tariffs and break down barriers everywhere, entirely, so the whole world trades in freedom." Now, political reality has settled in. By March 6, President Bush must make one of the thorniest decisions of his presidency: whether or not to erect hefty tariffs on cheap imported steel to protect the withering U.S. steel industry. And the smart money in Washington has him opting for the tariffs...
...privileged to be a VES concentrator and to go to college to study art. But it’s not like my family is pouring out thousands of dollars to support my work,” he says. He has quickly learned that producing photographs is not cheap, and producing top-quality prints can be painfully expensive. “A photograph can cost hundreds of dollars to print,” he says. Sheng says he only uses the best printers in New York because he wants his photography to be perfect. For the Green Street show, Sheng...