Word: bettering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...illegally. Now Spotify wants to make streaming mobile. The new application won't be available to everyone, only those who opt for the premium service, which costs $15 a month for unlimited streams (the same amount buys you about 15 songs from the iTunes Store), access to prereleases and better audio quality than the free service, which forces users to listen to ads after every few songs. Spotify says it can't reveal exactly how many of its members are currently using the premium service, but spokesman Jim Butcher says recent developments, such as the CD-quality streaming, are driving...
...better understand how this bug might move through the U.S. in coming months, officials have spent part of this summer monitoring the way H1N1 has been behaving during the southern hemisphere's winter months. It has been spreading fast, attendance has dropped at Patagonian ski resorts, and flu fears have crippled the Buenos Aires theater business. Across the region, countries are reporting that H1N1 has become the dominant strain of the flu season. But the most positive development is that the virus has so far not mutated - a fact that makes it possible for scientists to create a vaccine...
...estimated 1 million infected. With the exception of certain populations - including pregnant women, children with chronic diseases and people with respiratory ailments - H1N1 tends to be no worse than the seasonal flu. A few days in bed and lots of liquids, and most patients get better. The bad news is that H1N1 is highly contagious and, unlike many other flus, is particularly hard on children and teens...
...success of Clinton's mission does more than resolve one difficult problem (among many) between the U.S. and North Korea. It also reminds his hosts that there used to be better days between the two countries. In 1994, during Clinton's first term in office, the two sides entered into the Agreed Framework, the first time Pyongyang agreed to abandon its nuclear-weapons program in return for a range of economic benefits, including the construction of two light water nuclear reactors to generate electricity for the impoverished country. In fact, it was pursuit of that agreement that set the precedent...
...First and most obviously, photos from the meeting show a grinning Kim, the ailing dictator, looking much better physically - surprisingly so, in fact - than he has since suffering a stroke last August. The South Korean press had reported earlier this summer that Kim might be suffering form pancreatic cancer, and recent photos showed him looking haggard and not well. In recent weeks, intelligence agencies had been scrambling to nail down reports that a succession struggle was under way in Pyongyang and that Kim might not be long for the world. Foreign Ministries and intelligence agencies in East Asia - Japanese, South...