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...Conflicted about the ethics of unauthorized file sharing? Online music stores--which tend to have wider and more eclectic inventories than their bricks-and-mortar counterparts--allow fans to buy hard-to-find CDs (like, say, the excellent compilation Zimbabwe Frontline 3: Roots Rock Guitar Party) quickly and conveniently, albeit sometimes expensively...
Relocation of schools currently residing in Cambridge is a distinct, albeit distant, possibility. Summers cautioned the schools that further development in Cambridge—such as expansion of the law school— could not proceed without at least consideration of what that development would mean under various scenarios for Allston...
Such preparations assume a constant state of war, or something so close to it that the precise term makes little difference. But to satisfy Israel's remaining doves, Sharon also has to contemplate a sort of peace with the Palestinians, albeit one very different from that bruited at the failed Camp David summit between Arafat and Ehud Barak last year. While Barak wanted to negotiate an end to the conflict, Sharon is looking for what his aides call a "long-term interim settlement." To counter Israel's vulnerability, Sharon's advisers say he intends to insist on buffer zones both...
...thoughts about the safety of new prescription drugs, not just Celebrex and Vioxx, are understandable. Three weeks ago, Baycol, one of the popular group of cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins, was recalled because of an increased risk of rare but potentially fatal muscle problems. The same side effect--albeit at even lower rates--has been seen with the five other statins that remain on the market. But so few doctors and patients seem to know about the risk that last week, the Public Citizen Health Research Group, a consumer-advocacy organization, petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to require...
Compared with the frothy content plays of the era, the Standard stood as a solid foundation, pulling in $158 million in ad revenue in 2000--and actually turning a profit, albeit briefly. How could it fold so suddenly? Could the publication that had adroitly skewered all those bogus dotcom business plans have been brought down by the same shortcomings...