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...Born and raised on the sunbaked Caribbean island of St. Croix, where his smiling visage now adorns a giant billboard at the airport, Duncan's first sport was swimming, not hoops. Like his older sister Tricia, who swam backstroke in the 1988 Olympics, he was a high ranked amateur in the 400 meter freestyle. But after Hurricane Hugo destroyed the island's only Olympic pool in the fall of 1989 - and his mother Ione died of breast cancer several months later - Duncan never again competed in the water. He only started playing organized basketball in high school...
...since then his many disciples in the DJ world have occasionally paid dual tribute to Levan and Ono with their own Ice mixes. Now an album-length collection of 10 of those tributes has deposed Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott and risen to the No. 1 spot on Billboard's club play chart, giving Yoko Ono, at age 70, her long-awaited hit. "Isn't that weird?" she asks giddily...
...Jets, he segued smoothly into subsequent careers in financial planning and software sales. During the tech boom, Grant co-founded two sports-related Internet-based companies. "I was a shark," he says. "You eat what you kill." But after the tech bubble vaporized, he found himself staring at a billboard advertising a teaching fellowship in Los Angeles. A year later, he's teaching honors English to eighth-graders in the tough Watts neighborhood. He makes $36,000; in tech his base salary alone was $60,000. "My lifestyle has taken a change, but I touch kids nobody else could touch...
...unlimited number of CDs. You can even copy songs to the iPod portable music player. In the first 18 hours after the Music Store went live on April 28, buyers paid for an estimated 275,000 songs (for 99¢ a track or about $10 an album) according to Billboard magazine's daily news service...
...think that just because you drive your own car, advertisers won't be able to find you. On 10 billboards, mostly in California, Alaris Media Network, a Sacramento-based company, has installed "smart signs." Although they have the dimensions of traditional billboards, they are electronic and therefore able to change their advertising according to who is driving by. The signs are equipped with sensors that can tap into the radio stations that drivers are listening to as they pass. The company then determines the most popular radio station for certain blocks of time. From the radio stations, Alaris learns...