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...high cost of textbooks and coursepacks can be blamed on a number of factors. Textbooks include more and more extras every year, like CD-ROMs and accompanying websites, which raise their cost. Fully 80 percent of the textbook market is controlled by just five publishers, limiting competition and driving prices up as high as students can bear. Furthermore, the very people who choose textbooks, namely professors, don’t bear their cost, providing them with little incentive to consider price as part of the academic equation. Though bells and whistles aren’t an issue, coursepack prices...
...Kanye West on the cover. While I don't profess to be an expert on opera and hip-hop is far from my typical genre, I do know what I like--music that awakens a deeply emotional chord in my being. West's The College Dropout rotates in my CD player between operas by Puccini and Bizet. His lyrics and music are soul baring and thought provoking, and they speak to the human spirit the way great opera does...
...SPECIAL EDITION L2000 This full-featured, feel-good laptop includes a 1.6-GHz AMD Turion processor, a 60-GB hard drive, 512 MB of RAM, a recordable CD drive with DVD playback and built-in wi-fi. For $50 you can add a DVD burner. Bonus for your social conscience: for every sale, HP is donating $50 to the Lance Armstrong Foundation...
...lighten things up, the Ministry of National Defense said last week that it's recruited pop stars currently in uniform to cut a CD of new military anthems geared to the MTV generation. Love You, Love Me is an ode to the bonding that occurs among soldiers. Let's Go, Let's Go and My Comrades, are long on patriotism ("If we retreat, our country will fall") but sung to a beat 50 Cent would dig. A traditional marching song, Real Men, is sung by rising female singer Jinjoo?the only performer on the recording who isn't a soldier...
Contradictions abound on the CD, but what you notice most is the music. West is a master of samples and drum loops, and co-producer Brion can play anything with strings. Together they make one of the better-sounding rap records in history. Diamonds from Sierra Leone features the Bassey sample, keyboards stolen from a Vegas lounge act and a horn section fit for a coronation. Gone opens with an Otis Redding sample (from It's Too Late) and a two-note piano melody. Then there's a thwack of percussion and what seems like eight different string sections playing...