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What will that new, post-Napster music industry look like? In some ways, it will be comfortingly familiar. There will still be CDs and music stores for some time; not all consumers are going to leap onto the Internet to meet their musical needs. As BMG Entertainment CEO Strauss Zelnick puts it, "People like packaged goods...
...Internet. The project is expected to take up to 15 years and cost in the neighborhood of $400 million. For all that, it won't be the first: the entire New Testament is already online in MP3 format at www.audiotreasure.com C'EST CHIC, LE GEEK Strange bedfellows Levi Strauss & Co. and Philips Electronics have teamed up to produce a line of high-tech, high-fashion clothes that come with electronic devices sewn right into them. The new threads, which Levi's has dubbed ICD+, were created by Massimo Osti, and will debut next month in Europe. So far the line...
...shell, the fledgling is only partly visible--a beak here, a claw there--but already it has begun to reveal a dynamic, high-tech nation in which the old state-controlled system will give way to a more decentralized, privatized and entrepreneurial society. Says former Socialist Finance Minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn: "We're becoming a country like any other...
After a dozen years of island life on Maui, Tama Starr decided to return to New York City in 1982 to join the family business, which her grandfather had founded: Artkraft Strauss, known for its innovative Times Square signs--and the giant ball it lowered each New Year's Eve. She hoped to help her father, who had suffered a heart attack shortly after inheriting the business, to develop the company so it could thrive in the coming century. She knew it wouldn't be easy: her dad was irascible, and the place was "crawling with relatives...
...most winning--and moving--chapters of Eng's tale involve the love that blooms, reciprocally, between the brothers and Adelaide and Sarah Yates. Readers curious about the conjugal gymnastics required during the marriages that ensue will not be disappointed, but Strauss, an impressively skilled and subtle first novelist, devotes a minimum of space to prurient concerns. The double wedding is the novel's high point, with the words of the preacher--"Eternal Jesus, that joinest them together that were separate"--gaining new meaning in the context. Eng looks at his bride and wonders, "How did I believe I could...