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...years. Are we alive? Yes. Is a virus alive? Maybe. Still, a half-century after the discovery of the double helix, nobody doubts that it is our DNA that determines what we are - in the same way that lines of code determine software or the digital etchings on a CD determine the music you hear. Etch new signals, and you write a new song. That, in genetic terms, is what Venter has done. Working with only the four basic nucleotides that make up all DNA - adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymine - he has assembled an entirely new chromosome for an entirely...
...could use some help. A lack of big hits - just as CD sales are falling off a cliff - has left its recorded music business out of tune. (Its sister publishing business, which licenses the use of tracks from a bulging back catalogue, is still a massive money-spinner.) Lacklustre sales from artists like the British singer Robbie Williams meant revenues tumbled 16% in the year to last April to $3.4 billion. But is a former Goldman Sachs trader with no experience in the music business the man to make EMI sing...
...firm, and took the radical step of allowing fans to download and name their own price for the band's album In Rainbows. Others let their music do the talking. Robbie Williams, who bagged a $130 million record deal with EMI in 2002, has threatened to withhold his next CD, fearing the firm won't be able to market and promote it. "All we know," Williams' manager Tim Clark told The Times of London this week, "is they are going to decimate their staff...
...artists' albums up with corporate sponsors, as EMI plans to do. That might have some artists turning in their grave - just imagine that, John Lennon - but with music arenas often branded these days, EMI is confident it can sell the idea to some of its talent. Coldplay's next CD, brought to you by ExxonMobil, anyone...
...band or artist printed on the vinyl. "People who are used to CDs see the artwork and the colored vinyl, and they think it's really cool," says Jordan Yates, 15, a Nashville-based vinyl enthusiast. Some LP releases even come with bonus tracks not on the CD version, giving customers added value...