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This is what Gore aides call the "economic disqualifier" for Bush--the notion that when voters focus on the race, they'll choose Gore's policies and track record over Bush's. Pointing to gaudy new estimates of the ballooning budget surplus, Gore proposes to spend the money in "disciplined" ways to keep the prosperity going while Bush would "squander" it and "put prosperity beyond our reach." In an interview with TIME last Friday, Gore warmed to this theme: "The new estimates really bring into sharp focus not only the success of the past eight years, but also...
...Just another Gen Y geek pirating music on the Net. Napster--the file-sharing system that lets people download free music--and its close kin Gnutella seem so 10 minutes ago. The recording industry has Napster on the run, with a federal lawsuit pending to shut it down for copyright violations. And now MP3.com another music-sharing service, has settled with two record companies (including Warner Music Group, a unit of this magazine's parent, Time Warner) on terms favorable to the industry (see following story...
...find a way to charge for it. "Generating content is a valuable service," says Eric Scheirer, a media and Internet analyst at Forrester Research. "And as long as it is, there will always be ways to monetize it." What's more, anonymous systems like Freenet are inherently vulnerable. "The record companies could flood Freenet with a million copies of static," Scheirer suggests, "and title them The New Britney Spears Song...
...placed upon the earth these tools--movie studios, television networks, telephone companies, record labels, cable companies, Internet providers--and then stood back and waited for silly mortals to figure out how they all fit together. Last week's talk of a $35 billion purchase of Canada's Seagram by France's Vivendi represents the latest human attempt to make some of these pieces click into a seamless, revenue-generating new-economy Tinkertoy. The toy boys in this deal, Vivendi CEO Jean-Marie Messier, 43, and Seagram CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr., 45, can't resist the urge to merge Vivendi...
...number of runs that opposing teams score against him, without help from errors, for every nine innings that he pitches. In this ERA of a lively baseball, when an era of 4 a game is considered good, Pedro's ERA is an astonishing 0.99. The modern-day full-season record is Bob Gibson's 1.12, posted in 1968 and considered untouchable--until...