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Record companies blame file sharing for a 31 percent drop in compact disc sales since mid-2000—a number that may overstate the effect of sharing due to the contracting economy—but they should be finding ways to generate revenue that do not depend on litigation...
...want to know what we will drive and how we will kill one another (ergo Star Wars). We learn this curiosity early. Every year at my elementary school we would watch a movie about how we would live in the far future of the 1990s: the cars would be compact and efficient and would drive themselves; music would involve not just sound but holographic light displays as well. (In retrospect, this was a pungently 1970s view of the future: we would all ride our hyperintelligent Pintos to Laser Floyd shows...
PARIS Classic Parisiennes ("femmes, pas filles," according to a spokeswoman) stick to Chanel, specifically a new compact version of the classic quilted leather bag and a sexy satin pump, above, beaded by Lesage...
...Scary stuff, but there have been few instances since then of such a weapon firing on and downing a commercial airliner. In the past 18 months, alQaeda has twice tried to down planes with shoulder-fired missiles; both times they missed. It turns out that shoulder-fired missiles, while compact enough to fit in a duffel bag, are not particularly reliable weapons. But with an estimated 350,000 of them in government caches around the globe and countless more for sale on the black market, there is an abundance of them available. Even people like Hemant Lakhani think they...
...Somerville resident reported that in the late afternoon, persons unknown gained entry into her car, which was parked on the third floor of the Galleria mall. Three hundred compact discs and a faceplate for a Pioneer car stereo were stolen...