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Eliminate the used digital book market. Instead of buying a digital book, you'll find yourself licensing use of it, with no right to transfer your copy. A store that attempted to sell used copies could be put out of business with an infringement action. Without competition from the used market, prices for new digital books would rise...
...Instead, the Radcliffe heavies completed its most successful dual-meet season in a decade in speedy fashion, obliterating the old course record on the way to its sixth straight Alan DeWolfe...
...city councillors voted to bypass a public hearing on a future salary hike for themselves and members of the school committee, deciding instead to go directly to a second reading of the amendment next month...
...growth of short forms has not, in my observation, been balanced out by a comparable growth in long forms. Instead of subjects shifting nicely into levels of depth--here's the soundbite answer, here's a longer answer, here's the encyclopedia version--only the soundbite survives in circulation. It seems that our tolerance for information of all kinds has shrunk dramatically, demanding constant refresh and rarely holding still for the previously reductive 800-word form. (Have you really read this far in the column without skipping ahead or skimming...
...place new strains on the defense budget. Tamil Tiger rebel forces reportedly broke through government lines near the town of Jaffna Wednesday, two days after President Chandrika Kumaratunga rejected a rebel truce offer allowing her troops safe passage out of the beleaguered Jaffna peninsula, vowing instead to defend the territory to the last man. The secessionist fighters, who regard Jaffna as the capital of their desired homeland of Tamil Eelam, last week delivered a crushing blow to the Sri Lankan military by overrunning its strategic Elephant Base complex at the gateway to the peninsula, killing some 350 government troops...