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Innovation like that could also help to strangle music piracy; some 20 billion files were downloaded illegally in 2006. The music business has called on Internet Service Providers (ISPs), which host that traffic, to do more to choke it off, and an agreement was reached in France late last year requiring ISPs to stop large-scale copyright infringers. But to shake off its blues, the record business must itself continue to break old habits. Saying yes to rehab is a start, but returning to health is going to take a sustained dose of discipline and imagination...
...downtown Modesto, Calif., used to be someone's dream home. But it stands out in a row of similarly hued homes where many have a "For Sale" sign planted in their front yards. The two-story appears battered: its address has been scratched on a front panel and weeds choke what may once have been a manicured lawn. And then there is the overwhelming stench of human waste and stale beer. There has been no electricity and no running water since the bank repossessed it months ago. Still, at least three young men have been squatting here since January...
...sound. It doesn’t require the reams of old-growth wood consumed by hundreds of redundant posters. Chalk—mere calcium carbonate and pigment—eventually washes away into the wastewater system harmless to the environment, whereas posters liberated by the wind clog drains and choke urban wastewater systems. In New York City, a subway safety study even found that stray posters and newspapers were a leading cause of track flooding...
...appropriate that our sidewalks should be clogged with decadent decorations advertising those wares. It would be exciting to see an opinion war fought in chalk, and it would be inspiring to see the fabric of Harvard life spread itself out across the ground. It’s senseless to choke the channel of communication for the entire Yard to a few square feet of approved poster space. We live in a country inspired by ideas that were shared on public greens and commons. Harvard Yard ought to be the preeminent forum for communication in America, and its pathways ought...
...fact, be unstoppable. In 1979, the oil company Shell set off a similar eruption while drilling off the shore of Brunei. That mudflow took 20 years and 20 relief wells to halt, according to Mark Tingay, a geologist at the University of Adelaide in Australia. Lusi may eventually choke itself as mud clogs its interior plumbing. But if left to die on its own, Davies estimates that it could continue to erupt for years, and perhaps even decades. Hardi Prasetyo, deputy head of the new government team in charge of Lusi, says that his workers are now focusing on containing...