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...that Crazy Frog's Axel F, mixing the theme tune from the Beverly Hills Cop movie with an infuriating mobile-phone ring tone - think two-stroke scooters voiced by an animated frog - outsold Coldplay's single fourfold last week, according to music retailer HMV. Exploiting the Crazy Frog's appeal (the ring tone is sold across Europe, the U.S. and Australia), the track looks set to top the British singles chart this week, a first for a ring tone. That "might be a little embarrassing" for Coldplay, admits HMV spokesman Gennaro Castaldo, but it's a hit with Jamster...
...soon as Scottoline tried her hand at legal thrillers, she sold her first book, Everywhere That Mary Went,and her career took off. By 1995, she had won the Edgar Award, the top prize for mystery writers, for Final Appeal. As of this year, her books have been translated into 23 languages and more than 7 million copies have been sold...
...born warriors like Zielinski, the opportunity to put those lessons into practice can't come soon enough. Yet while West Point has been producing generals for 200 years, not every generation hears the same call. When Major Jason Amerine was attending West Point in the early '90s, the appeal of a career in uniform was fading. The Berlin Wall fell during his freshman year. "We went from the cold war to a thousand points of light," he recalls. "The feeling was, What are we doing?" During the first Gulf War, in 1991, the academy took to playing I'm Proud...
...Security numbers for listed dependents, seven million American children “disappeared.†Who knew that such fun and interesting questions could be solved through incredibly difficult multiple regressions? Or, for that matter, that an economist could write an easy-to-read book with such mass appeal...
...lobbyists for universities and groups who advocate for sufferers of various diseases. Fellow Republican lawmaker Charles Bass of New Hampshire gave her a chapter from Hatch's 2002 memoir Square Peg, in which the Senator explained his own conversion on the stem-cell issue. But the most compelling appeal, Wilson says, has come from a House Democrat--James Langevin of Rhode Island, an abortion foe who is also a quadriplegic as a result of an accidental gunshot wound suffered when he was a teenager. "When Jim Langevin talks to you about this," says Wilson, "he speaks with a certain understanding...