Word: america
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...course) software program called MP3 (Mpeg1 Layer 3) to receive and send music over the Internet. The pirated tunes have sound quality comparable to that of CDs, and can even be channeled through conventional stereo systems. "The Internet has made music so vulnerable," says Record Industry Association of America (RIAA) general counsel Cary Sherman, "[that] if it were left to go unchecked, you would eventually reach a point where the pirate market would supplant the real market...
...When America Online said last November that it would buy Netscape in a stock swap, rabid online traders drove up Netscape's price beyond what AOL had said it would pay. There was no prospect of a bidding war. The lemmings--too busy to use a calculator--were simply piling...
Covington, as McDonald re-creates him in earthy, economical prose, is a cheerful believer in the biblical doctrines that Darwin's work will so thoroughly overturn. The recipient of a shipboard education in basic Christianity, yet brimming over with animal high spirits, Covington roams the wilds of South America, bringing down exotic birds by day and happily sinning away his nights with a succession of willing women. He's not a student of evolution but evolution's happy product, strong and shrewd and lusty. A nature boy. The irony is that this makes him the perfect tool of a scientific...
...Bill Clinton does it is by utilizing the principle that has successfully guided his life so far: putting himself first [NATION, Feb. 1]. How ironic that the same guideline that led the President into lies and adultery will now, with the help of a too tolerant America, save him. DAVID VAN HOOSER Nashville, Tenn...
...answer to how Clinton does it is evolution. He is a politician who studied America's brand of "political Darwinism" and acclimated himself to the form-over-substance environment of our process. Unfortunately, this is not a criticism of Clinton so much as an indictment of the pathetic U.S. electorate. Character and veracity are "issues" only if the voters make them so. We have chosen to ignore them, and Clinton is the by-product of that decision. CHRIS RENALDO Atlanta...