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...that In Rainbows is priced to generate a windfall. While a deluxe boxed-set version for superfans is available for $80, the downloadable album's 10 songs have no price. Drop them into the online checkout basket, and the register says it's up to you. Click again, and the words it's really up to you appear-and really, it is. In Rainbows is the first major release whose price is set by you. And it's perfectly acceptable to pay zero...
...Rainbows will be released as a digital download available only via the band's web site, Radiohead.com. There's no label or distribution partner to cut into the band's profits - but then there may not be any profits. Drop In Rainbows' 15 songs into the online checkout basket and a question mark pops up where the price would normally be. Click it, and the prompt "It's Up To You" appears. Click again and it refreshes with the words "It's Really Up To You" - and really, it is. It's the first major album whose price is determined...
...many ordinary Chinese, the Games mark the ability of their nation to shrug off two centuries of humiliation by foreigners. "In the 19th century, China used to be called the sick man of Asia," says Li Weiling, 51, a checkout clerk at a Beijing supermarket. "The Olympics will totally change that. Hundreds of thousands of athletes, reporters and visitors will see China with their own eyes and realize China is not a backward country anymore." Among China's dissidents and democrats, meanwhile, there has been hope that the attention paid to their nation as the Games approach would lead...
...News That Was Fit to Fake I am happy to see that such a highbrow publication deigned to write about the passing of the Weekly World News, a tabloid that will truly be missed by individuals stuck in the checkout line [Aug. 27]. But I disagree with Joel Stein's claim that it's "a sign of progress for a society to go from inventing gods and monsters to seeking catharsis in the real life of Paris Hilton." That's as laughable as Bat Boy running for President. The Weekly World News lost readers because people turned to the Internet...
...News That Was Fit to Fake I am happy to see that such a highbrow publication deigned to write about the passing of the Weekly World News, a tabloid that will truly be missed by Americans stuck in the checkout line [Aug. 27]. But I disagree with Joel Stein's claim that it's "a sign of progress for a society to go from inventing gods and monsters to seeking catharsis in the real life of Paris Hilton." That's as laughable as Bat Boy running for President. The Weekly World News lost readers because people turned to the Internet...