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...more intricately entwined with programming. Viewers could, potentially, interactively access information on any product or service seen during a program - a chair on the Big Brother set, a piece of art on Frasier's wall, Calista Flockhart's microskirt. Or, if you like the song on a chart show, you could purchase music immediately and directly. This would make, say, a pick-of-the-charts show, sponsored by a major music retailer, a commercially attractive proposition for the sponsor, the performers and the broadcaster - all of whom would earn a share of associated revenue...
...music" is the phrase du jour for exotic sounds from Africa, Asia, South America - what used to be called the Third World. Today world music is available everywhere; type the words into your Google search line and get about 3,070,000 websites. World music has its own Billboard chart, its own radio shows, if mostly on college stations. But it's a specialized, affirmative-action genre. Even if the definition is enlarged to include pop music from the Old World (from France, Italy, etc.), world music rarely catches the notice of the kids who dote on Destiny's Child...
...this part of the world, as common here as the Internet entrepreneur seemed to be in the U.S. two years ago. Theirs is a growth business. Everyone seems to be on one side of the game or the other--except those unfortunate enough to be caught in the middle. Charts of coca production and the violence that goes along with it--kidnappings, massacres, executions--look like a NASDAQ chart from 1998. The jungles of Colombia and Peru and Bolivia are dotted with the paraphernalia buttressing a shadowy and bloody war: American radar systems, air bases and special-operations training units...
Fisher suggests that PSLM draw up a chart from the administration's perspective to try to find a way that each side can emerge from the controversy politically "okay" with their constituencies. The PSLM could map the pluses and minuses from Harvard's point of view, Fisher says, both if Harvard gives in and if they stand firm so that PSLM can develop a greater understanding of the opposition's view...
...philological equivalent of genetic research to work back from modern languages to common roots, thus reconstructing Proto-Indo-European, a purely theoretical tongue. But as Renfrew points out, if the difficulties of dating genetic change are vexing, the ones for dating linguistic change are even harder: though linguists can chart the rate of change from, say, late Latin to early Spanish, they can't prove the same rate applies for other languages before the advent of writing...