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...next year or two. The effort recalls the last time we launched a concerted attempt to resist a mortal threat: World War II's Manhattan Project, which produced the Bomb. This time the enemy is murkier and the battle more diffuse. "There isn't going to be one big breakthrough, one killer app," warns Katrina Heron, former editor of Wired, who along with David Kuhn is co-editing a book for HarperCollins on science and technology in the age of terrorism. "There isn't going to be a Los Alamos...
...needs to be. The brilliance of Napster 1.0 lay in its simplicity and comprehensive catalog of songs. No pay service has been able to sufficiently untangle the copyright mess to allow for a broad range of downloadable music. Apple's iTunes Music Store made a breakthrough in April by letting users download individual songs for 99¢ a pop (as opposed to requiring a monthly subscription plan). RealNetworks' Rhapsody music service scored last week when it added some 500 Rolling Stones tracks to its 350,000-song catalog. Napster 2.0 promises 500,000 songs at launch--but that's still less...
...together was to get married." It took her nearly three years to finish her first drama, a sci-fi adventure, which was bought for less than $500 and turned into a made-for-TV movie that attracted little notice. Her next try, Just the Way You Are, was her breakthrough, capturing 32% of all viewing households. She has since penned Long Vacation, a touchstone for anyone studying Japanese, and Beautiful Life, Japan's most watched TV drama of all time. (It was proving so popular in Malaysia that two of the country's terrestrial stations aired...
...special tennis coach for the top members of the Communist Party, as well as spies and diplomats - "to make contacts and develop sources," Tarpishchev says. Tennis was compulsory as well for the cosmonauts' training program as the only game that fully relaxes one's brain. But the real breakthrough happened in 1990, when Yeltsin was photographed on a tennis court in shorts. His immense popularity at the time helped bring tennis to the masses. "Several factors just fell into place," says Yevgeny Zuyenko, Izvestia's sports editor. The élite followed the leader. The poor saw the money that...
...soccer in the U.S. is having a breakthrough summer, even if American teams aren't a part of it. British club Manchester United, probably the most valuable sports franchise in the world (about $1 billion), has planted its flag in America during a four-city exhibition tour that saw Man U matched against some of Europe's glamour teams, including Glasgow Celtic from Scotland (a 4-0 win), and Juventus from Italy (4-1). According to promoters, it took only one hour for Man U to sell out its Aug. 3 game against Barcelona at Philadelphia's Lincoln Financial Field...