Word: underlying
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Napster announced an agreement with German media giant Bertelsmann Tuesday, under which the music-sharing service will begin to charge its online members, funneling some of the profits to record companies and the artists that hold copyrights on the songs.
Though details still have to be worked out, under one proposal, Napster would charge its users a $4.95 monthly fee.
Still, despite the change, graduate students and professors alike say the department is not in an ideal place yet. Students are still under pressure to produce results, knowing that if they don't, both their own future and their advisor's reputation will suffer.
Students say professors realize their students are under pressure, but are still not about to give up getting the best results in order to preserve students' welfare.
Even a brazen attempt to locate a Gen-X or ?Y pulse on the site was crushed: Enter "young voters" in the Bush/Cheney search engine and voilà! A long list of stories appears, ostensibly geared toward young people. Flipping through the results makes you wonder about who's in...