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...almost goes without saying that MySpace will also happily sell you songs and albums its new service doesn't cover; the site has partnered with Amazon, which handles the transactions and sends you unlocked MP3s. Indeed, when you set up MyMusic, you can add an Amazon applet and install a music downloader (Mac and Windows are supported, I'm told) that will drop the purchased music wherever you want, including into iTunes, so you can transfer the songs to your iPod. (Songs range from 79 cents to 99 cents each...
...record video. One big drawback for music lovers may be the G1's lack of iTunes; without it, you can't play copy-protected songs purchased from Apple's music store unless you convert them to MP3s first. There is an unbranded music player built by Google, however, and Amazon is the default music merchant...
...Lula enters the homestretch of his presidency - it ends in 2011 - many of Brazil's oldest problems remain unsolved. Chief among them is its education system, which despite increased funding remains a dysfunctional shame. There's also rampant corruption, exorbitant taxes, Amazon deforestation and one of the world's most wasteful public bureaucracies. Lula, who many Brazilians hoped would tackle those plagues more forcefully, blames "a [political] structure that has been there for centuries" but which "we are trying to dismantle." To do that in the two years he has left, however, may require more divine intervention...
...claim that industrialized food "is the only way to economically feed a global population." There is nothing economical about a system contributing a big chunk of our greenhouse-gas emissions. The drivers of deforestation are large-scale agribusinesses pushing into wetlands in Indonesia and rain forests in the Amazon - not Sunshine heirloom-tomato farmers from Sonoma. Anna Lappé, Brooklyn, New York...
...with the same quality of education as we get in America." But just as the Internet has enabled illegal access to music and movies, so too has it opened the international book market - especially to the hands of college students. International textbooks are available on major bookselling websites including Amazon, eBay and Half.com. It's legal for students to buy them for personal use, but illegal for anyone to resell them outside of their intended country. "It's a copyright infringement not for the person buying but for the person selling," says Jane Ginsburg, a professor of literary and artistic...