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...legal music sites online, up from 50 two years ago. Levy predicts that 25% of industry revenues will come from digital music by 2010, and many industry analysts and executives think he's right. And then, EMI and the industry just got lucky. The unexpected cash cow of the digital era is the ringtone, and its wireless cousins: ringtunes, ringbacks and wallpaper. Last year mobile music sales were more than $400 million globally. EMI's publishing arm - with a catalogue of more than a million songs - is the world's largest, with a market share analysts estimate at around...
...paying off debts of $5,000 incurred by her two sons, both of whom were killed in a Bangkok traffic accident: "I asked him, 'Can you help me repay? Can you help with my grandchildren's schooling?' He said he could." He also said he would give her a cow. A grin spreads across Ouan's weathered face. Thaksin is beautiful, she says. "I want him to be Prime Minister forever...
...made the economy grow, I have made drug offenses drop," he said, "and I will eradicate poverty within the next three years." And if he did call a snap election, Thaksin is assured of at least one vote. Back in At Samart, Grandma Ouan tells a reporter that the cow Thaksin promised still hasn't showed up. As if on cue, a motorcycle roars up to her modest wooden house. On the bike is a young veterinarian from the Ministry of Agriculture with papers for Ouan to sign so he can bring her the cow. She won't actually...
...effective antiviral treatments before human-to-human transmission takes off. In Turkey, meanwhile, the virus may already be endemic: a permanent presence that would constantly threaten to invade Europe in the future. Even if everyone has learned the lessons of previous health and food-safety crises such as mad-cow disease and foot-and-mouth disease, avian flu defies traditional responses. Wild birds don't stop for quarantine controls, and they don't recognize borders...
...huge run on tickets. Herbert Brugger, managing director of the tourism board, says the town began its marketing push three years ago and has since staged press conferences in Japan, in the U.S. and throughout much of Europe to stir up excitement. Tourism is already a big cash cow for the city, which hosted 6.9 million visitors in 2004. Quite how many more will come this year isn't clear, although Brugger expects a 10% jump in total visitors. Salzburg stores are stuffed with Mozart souvenirs - from musical boxes and T shirts to the famous Mozart Kugel chocolates. Josef...