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...November 10 staff editorial (“Selling Legal Downloading”), the Crimson Staff was harshly critical of the film industry’s recent announcement that it will begin to sue those who steal movies online. I write today to briefly explain why we have chosen to take this action...
...ability to use the existing pool of creative work to new ends—to publish documentaries that include stock footage and write songs that include samples of other songs, for example—is in grave peril. And if you were to ask Mr. Glickman, he would surely explain that the movie industry and all the wonderful creative engines behind it are on the verge of being overrun by pirates who are robbing honest workers of the money they need to feed their families. If no one will pay for movies because they can get them for free online...
...participants could be given the combo drug treatment, called BiDil. But the study couldn't answer whether BiDil might benefit other patients and, more broadly, what genetic variations really matter in shaping the course of disease. What we do know is that superficial differences like skin color explain far less than was once thought...
...surprises are all good: it has revised the level of reserves upward, production growth is well above the expected 7% annual increase, and the firm has decided to double its capital spending to make more of the opportunities it is finding. In the Soviet era, BP officials explain, oil wells were developed in a cookie-cutter approach that didn't customize extraction techniques to the needs of individual fields. By tailoring solutions to each reservoir and well, the officials say, it's possible to exploit them far more productively...
...political rituals are so honored as overreading the results of an election. In the rush to explain this one, at least six myths have taken root...