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...often, it doesn't produce money-spinning discs, either. More mature music fans might still pay up for a CD; some 2 million people outside North America bought last fall's Long Road out of Eden, for instance, the first studio album from the Eagles in decades. But supermarket muscle has driven down the retail price of compact discs. The only U.S. store selling that Eagles CD was Wal-Mart, for the bargain price of $11.88. The average price of a CD in Europe dropped by 4% between 2003 and 2006, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers. One way to maintain price levels...
Precious Hope In the real Botswana, Minghella already had a good approximation of McCall Smith's red-dust Eden. This country of 1.8 million is one of Africa's success stories. Since independence in 1966, it has maintained a robust growth rate, and per-capita gdp reached a comparatively healthy $11,000 in 2006. Botswana's diamond wealth has fomented no coups or conflict, and the last assassination was in the 1960s when a tribal chief's brother shot his older sibling. Population growth is under control, and the country's schools, and its green tourism in the Okavango Delta...
...life - but for the most part, we want to live. ... In my book I show in many different settings how beautiful things could get, and how quickly, if we weren't around - how things revert to wilderness, almost like the Garden of Eden...
...intentionally not apocalyptic," says Weisman, who teaches journalism at the University of Arizona. "Apocalypse means destruction, and the whole world ends. In my book, I show how beautiful things could get?and how quickly?if we weren't around. How things revert to wilderness, almost like the Garden of Eden." (The History Channel's Life After People, which airs Jan. 21, has essentially the same premise...