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...slower this year than in years past, and one of course can't help notice that many companies from all different industries and regions are laying off employees. The thing is, a dot-com firing 200 employees, an auto maker closing one plant and a newly-merged company like AOL Time Warner eliminating 1,200 redundant accountants and secretaries does not add up to a job market like that of the early '90s, when millions of jobs were lost every year. As it stands, the economy is currently adding 150,000 jobs a month, which is a slower pace than...
...Chat on AOL with TIME's Robert Sullivan about NASCAR at 7 p.m. E.T. on Wednesday. Keyword: LIVE
...cover story three weeks ago on the AIDS epidemic in Africa has drawn hundreds of letters from readers, many of whom have donated money to Netaid.org an arm of the U.N. So far, more than $200,000 has been collected. If you would like to help, simply visit Netaid.org AOL members can go to Keyword: Breaking the Silence. And for those who want to drop a check in the mail, the address is Netaid.org Foundation, 336 East 45th Street, New York...
...Napster's ultimate dream is to be a kind of AOL, to use its brand name and market penetration to be a legitimate pay-for-play community sometime in June, with the blessing of the record companies. But the RIAA wouldn't budge; they wouldn't wait until then because they knew they didn't have to. So Napster is going to try to just limp along until summer, and hope their users are still around when they've actually got a revenue model that passes muster with the RIAA...
...There's even been talk of AOL-Time Warner buying Aimster, which would really break this thing open. Because nobody's going to take on AOL. [Note: As the parent of TIME.com, AOL Time Warner owns this article.] Realistically, technology is going to find a way to stay ahead - the RIAA is never going to be able to stop this from their end. You can't encrypt sound...