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...peer file sharing, the teenager and her friends don't have to buy music, movies, games and TV shows online. Getting away with illegal downloading to cell phones is so easy that mobile piracy is denting the $4 billion mobile-content business. Ringtone shoplifting is one of the costliest abuses, accounting for an estimated $40 million in lost revenue since 2004. An additional $123 million could be lost by 2007, according to Qpass, a Seattle-based mobile-commerce-services company. Qpass found that, of the 100 websites tested in a study (42 mobile operators and 58 online entertainment stores), more...
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...prices climb faster than ivy, the leaders, not surprisingly, are the prestigious private schools. Tiny (550 students) Bennington College in Vermont and science giant (4,300 undergraduates) M.I.T. are the costliest. Their tabs, says the College Board: just over $17,000. And the schools believe they are worth it. "We offer extraordinary facilities, extraordinary faculty, extraordinary peers and the best talent available," says M.I.T. Admissions Director Michael Behnke. There is another factor too. "You are paying for prestige," says William Park, professor of English at Sarah Lawrence ($16,285) and a graduate of Princeton...
...might be the only way of winning Soviet agreement to deep cuts in the mounting arsenals of offensive weaponry. Indeed, the single most fateful decision of 1986 could be whether or not the U.S. renews its commitment to pursue the space-age project that not only may be the costliest in history but also could change forever--for better or worse--the nature of nuclear deterrence...
...ranks along with the Grand Coulee and Hoover dams as one of the century's costliest and most complex public works projects. It carries a price tag of $1.3 billion and has been a building for twelve years--so far. It will not be fully operational until the early 1990s, probably at the cost of another $2.3 billion. But when Interior Secretary Donald Hodel and Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt switched on the huge pump of the Hassayampa water plant last Friday, dedicating the mammoth Central Arizona Project, they signaled the opening of a new and possibly contentious era throughout much...