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...possible. But all this raises an interesting question: What if the pirates win? If you play the thought experiment out to its logical extreme, the body count is high. After all, you can't have an information economy in which all information is free. The major music labels would disappear; ditto the record stores that sell their CDs. The age of millionaire rock stars would be over; they would become as much a historical curiosity as the landed aristocracy is today. Instead, musicians would scratch out a living on the touring circuit, since in an age of free music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's All Free! | 5/5/2003 | See Source »

...anywhere. In Hong Kong, clinicians are continuing to use the antiviral drug ribavirin, though tests in the U.S. have shown that it doesn't kill the coronavirus. Several kinds of vaccines are already in the works, but private companies are hesitant to spend money on a virus that could disappear soon. That means most of the research is left to the cash-strapped public sector, and progress is slow. Even the most optimistic researchers believe a vaccine will take two years to develop?assuming the virus doesn't shape-shift as readily as HIV, making it almost impossible to produce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is SARS Getting Deadlier? | 5/5/2003 | See Source »

...infections down to levels that many residents view as acceptable. "Our hope is that we can drive this disease out of the human population and back into nature," says Dr. David Heymann, the WHO's executive director for communicable diseases. "We have a chance of making it disappear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beating Back the Bug | 5/5/2003 | See Source »

...enough to identify, but—as the administration knows well—quite hard to eliminate. They own their own property, and even though they are not Harvard-affiliated on account of their obvious conflict with Title IX, the Development Office doesn’t want them to disappear. Somehow the list of Harvard’s most influential alumni overlaps with final club members to a remarkable degree. Aha! There’s something we forgot to consider when scratching our heads about these clubs’ appeal: they make kids rich, even if they weren?...

Author: By Madeleine S. Elfenbein, | Title: Join the Club | 5/2/2003 | See Source »

...Come Down,” are quiet ballads featuring acoustic guitar and occasionally drums. Typical McCaughan, the lyrics are infused with a poet’s sense for words and at the same time exquisite and emotional. In “Don’t Disappear,” McCaughan sings softly and longingly: “And in this dream we were terribly tall, wobbly and weak / And I was afraid we would fall / Impaled on dull silver mass of antennae / And I wanted to grab you, but you were so skinny...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Music | 4/25/2003 | See Source »

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