Word: cleanly
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...that built its fortune printing CD's full of songs like "American Pie" by Don McLean. That, it seems, is the implication of the huge agreement announced on Halloween by Napster and the German giant of the media world, Bertelsmann Music Group. In a nutshell, Napster has agreed to clean up its act and charge users a subscription to download songs by Bertelsmann artists, in return for sharing profits with the German label and its artists. Forget the presidential election, forget the sequencing of the human genome, forget that space station thing. This announcement is the piece of news from...
...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: Cautious conservation. Require federal facilities to comply with all EPA regulations, continue research into causes and effects of global warming, clean up and redevelop "brownfields" abandoned by old industry. Provide market incentives for clean-living corporations. Restructure the EPA. Reject Kyoto protocol...
...Clark, a senior buyer for Maine retailer L.L. Bean, says the system "frees me" to talk about issues - health care and taxes and sprawl. State senator Susan Longley says "clean" campaigning has refocused her "totally on my constituents" - not contributors. Longley's challenger, former Belfast Sheriff John Ford, says without the new law, he wouldn't be in the race. When friends asked him to run, he says, "I told them I was not going to ask the people of Waldo County to give me $35,000 to $40,000" to campaign...
...Maine's carefully crafted law still faces a practical question: Can clean candidates win, or will they be overwhelmed by those playing by the old rules. But "Eventually one of these people will run for Congress and win," says George Christie, an activist who worked to pass the law. "And there will be more and more from different states who have had experience with public financing." And then maybe, the reformers hope, as Maine goes, so will go the nation...