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...blizzard-bound residents of the mid-Atlantic region get ready to dig themselves out of the third major storm of the season, they may stop to wonder two things: Why haven't we bothered to invest in a snow blower, and what happened to climate change? After all, it stands to reason that if the world is getting warmer - and the past decade was the hottest on record - major snowstorms should become a thing of the past, like PalmPilots and majority rule in the Senate. Certainly that's what the Virginia state Republican Party thinks: the GOP aired...
Meanwhile, one possible buyer lurks on the sidelines: Warner Music, the third largest record company in the world. CEO Edgar Bronfman has long coveted EMI, but mutual intransigence has thus far prevented a merger. Some Terra Firma officials fear that Citigroup simply wants to "flip" EMI by making a quick sale to Warner - a plan Citigroup denies. In its present state, however, EMI's future as an independent company is far from certain. "The trouble is that the future of EMI would look quite good if it wasn't for all the debt," Dyson says. "But it doesn't look...
...notion of unfettered access to communications is so uncontroversial as to seem almost trite, but it is a revolutionary demand in countries such as Iran and China where it threatens the regimes' hold on power. That's the reason that one third of the world that has any access to internet sees a version censored by their governments. Declaring a kind of soft war on this new information curtain being drawn across the "new iconic infrastructure of our age", the U.S. is now committing itself to actively undermining censorship. In China, that means going up against some 50,000 government...
...course, Clay realizes that even world-class track and field athletes don’t make enough to lounge around, and it is not difficult to guess what will happen, whether or not he earns his third trip to the Olympic podium...
...Harvard’s homepage, the University’s Web site is a pretty hot link, according to one recently released set of rankings. In fact, the Web site 4 International Colleges and Universities lists Harvard’s as the third most-visited college or university Web site in the world...