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...99¢, to be exact. When Apple introduced its pay-per-song service last spring, many doubted the computer maker could succeed where so many had failed. But the straightforward concept and uncomplicated design of iTunes immediately hit a chord with consumers, who downloaded 1 million songs in its debut week. The service's popularity underscored Jobs' argument: free file sharing can be a pain in the neck. Once you square yourself with breaking the law, there's also the virus-ridden software, the porn links, the cumbersome downloads. "We're all about competing with piracy," says Jobs. The record industry...
...filming of the HBO show, which mixes actors with real politicians in unscripted scenes, violates rules against using Capitol space for commercial purposes. A never-aired test episode relied on impromptu dialogue in Senate halls with politicos like Hillary Clinton and John McCain. Days before the program's debut this week, K Street co-producer and G.O.P. admaker Stuart Stevens said he wasn't worried: "We'll just shoot somewhere else." Now if only the real lobbyists would follow them...
World Wide Web The Internet had been around since the 1970s but wasn't ready for prime time. Only after software engineer Tim Berners-Lee created HTML code, URLs and the first browser did the Web debut in 1991. Before long, surfing was something you did indoors while basking in electroluminescent light. The Web changed the way we did everything--shop, date, invest, check the weather, get porn--and gave us control over the flow of information while compromising our privacy. For a time, an IPO craze minted millionaires--and brought us a very funny sock puppet...
Parents battling skyrocketing college costs get an extra weapon this week as the first prepaid tuition plan designed for private colleges and universities makes its debut. Like the prepaid plans many states run for residents, the Independent 529 Plan is a tax-advantaged way to lock in tuition at today's rates, thus hedging against cost increases like last year's 6% average jump. The plan sells discounted tuition credits good at more than 220 private schools, from Amherst to Princeton. Contributing $10,000, for example, buys a full year at a like-priced college or half a year...
...Violent Cop (1989): Dirty Harry does Tokyo in Kitano's directorial debut, an exercise in anger mismanagement that features Kitano as an avenging officer fighting corruption inside the police force...