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...labels have only recently embraced fully licensed ringtones that actually sound like music, he says, and Zingy is racing to sign up the most popular hip-hop acts to exclusive ringtone deals. (His roster already includes 50 Cent, Ludacris and Snoop Dogg.) Grinda says the only thing holding the content back is handsets: just some 15% of cell phones in use today support the best-quality ringtones. Of course, Americans typically replace their cell phones every 18 months. "Give me two years, and every handset in the U.S. will be compatible," he says...
...course, the big boys are also jumping into wireless services. Larry Shapiro, who runs Disney's North American mobile business, first realized the potential in cell phones in 2000, in Japan, where high-speed networks allowed cell-phone content to take off long before it did in the U.S. (Disney characters are enormously popular there, particularly with young women in their 20s and 30s--heavy users of cell phones.) In the U.S., Disney's games and wallpaper images of characters like the Incredibles have done well, but the company is still trying to figure out how to translate its movies...
...signed the encyclical Evangelium Vitae, which deemed euthanasia a "crime that no human law can claim to legitimize." "There is no obligation in conscience to obey such laws," the encyclical reads. "Instead, there is a grave and clear obligation to oppose them by conscientious objection." Many Europeans, though, seem content to leave harrowing decisions like those in the Schiavo case to the consciences of families and physicians...
Given her prior successes, Stinetorf had hoped for more but was nevertheless content with her performance...
...motion is worded to be friendly. The first, “The Faculty lacks confidence in the leadership of Lawrence H. Summers,” is loaded with acquiescent response bias—the tendency of people to automatically agree with any statement presented to them, regardless of its content. How different would the results be if a Summers supporter had called the confidence motion—rather than Professor of Anthropology and of African and African American Studies J. Lorand Matory, a self-acknowledged opponent of Summers’ leadership—and asked the Faculty if they...