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Three major record labels announced Monday that they would team up with RealNetworks, the Internet audio and video distribution company that markets RealPlayer products, to develop a model for an Internet music subscription service...
...Bush gauged the heat he'd take from the rest of the world wrong, he read the American people more or less right. A new TIME/CNN poll showed that 75% of those surveyed consider global warming a "very serious" or "fairly serious" problem, and 67% said the President should develop a program to address it. But only 48% said they would be willing to pay 25[cents] more for a gallon of gasoline. And while they are concerned about climate change, they are more fearful of seeing their electric bills soar or of losing their jobs...
Instead of asking just one expert to write an essay about the problem we face, Charles came up with the idea of asking 10 influential people to collaborate on a letter to President Bush urging him to develop a plan to combat global warming. Noted conservationists Edward O. Wilson and Jane Goodall signed, but so did leaders from several other fields, including Walter Cronkite, John Glenn, financier George Soros and Craig Venter, who helped map the human genome. And you may not know that Harrison Ford, when he's not busy on movie sets, is an ardent environmentalist...
...debate. But the situation is becoming urgent, and it is time for consensus and action. There are many strategies for curbing greenhouse-gas emissions without slowing economic growth. In fact, the spread of advanced, cleaner technology is more of an economic opportunity than a peril. We urge you to develop a plant to reduce U.S. production of greenhouse gases. The future of our children--and their children--depends on the resolve that you and other world leaders show...
...least of the reasons that NAEP is something of a dirty word among local-control conservatives in the House -is the fact that the first word in its title - National - has a whiff of federal control. But without it, education experts say, it is virtually impossible to develop meaningful performance comparisons among the states. Watering down the NAEP and testing provisions is "disastrous and takes away the heart and spirit of the legislation and the ability to overturn the status quo," says Kelly Amis, program director of the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, a conservative-leaning research group that supports measures...