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...your earliest and more surprising supporters is Pennsylvania Congressman Mike Doyle, who cited your music during a hearing on copyright law. What did you think when you first heard about that? One of his advisors e-mailed me a YouTube link of him speaking before Congress and I thought it was a spoof at first. I think he went out on a limb there with this relatively progressive idea, probably to a room of people who had no idea what he was even talking about. Sometimes people seem to think me or my record label don't understand...
...Sarkozy called world leaders to join them at a monumental summit meeting in a U.S. city - probably at the United Nations in New York - shortly after the Nov. 4 U.S. presidential election. Following their huddle at Camp David Saturday, the trio issued a statement saying the extraordinary international congress would "review progress being made to address the current crisis and to seek agreement on principles of reform needed to avoid a repetition and assure global prosperity in the future...
...future, clients will be able to apply the technology more broadly—“from the microblog to the data warehouse.” “Every 15 minutes an amount of information appears on the Internet equivalent to all the information in the Library of Congress, and a lot of this is unstructured text,” he wrote. “There would appear to be many potential applications on the horizon...
...historical basis for creating a Read/Write culture: Lessig resurrects the testimony of American composer John Phillip Sousa, who went before Congress in 1906 to discuss copyright reform: "When I was a boy ... in front of every house in the summer evenings you would find young people together singing the songs of the day or the old songs. Today you hear these infernal machines going night and day. We will not have a vocal chord left.'" As Lessig explains, "Sousa was not offering a prediction about the evolution of the human voice box. He was describing how a technology ... would change...
...those with the football paraphernalia were almost twice as likely to vote. "I was very, very surprised," Laband says. Up to this point, most behavioral research has focused on the correlation between the likelihood of voting and displays of political expression - membership in a party, or "Vote Smith for Congress" signs on the porch. "These results show that different kinds of expressive behavior, voting and football fandom, are linked somehow, even if they don't have the common thread of politics," he says...