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...left behind after Friday's battles. In the rocky terrain of Saturday's exchange I saw eight more slain Ansar fighters. Some had died in their bunkers; others were cut down as they fled over open ground or among relatively exposed rocky outcrops. Their corpses remained where they had fallen throughout the assault...
Nonetheless, NPR, PRI and many large and medium-size stations have surprisingly healthy balance sheets. Though NPR has suffered a 40% drop in corporate underwriting revenues, from a peak of $33 million in 2000, its total revenue has fallen only 6% and is projected to rise in 2003. NPR plugged much of its shortfall by raising carriage fees and wheedling new cash from big charitable donors. (It recently won a $14 million MacArthur Foundation grant.) NPR has also started selling ad space on its headquarters building, and is widening its brand with two channels on Sirius Satellite Radio...
...more formats--different types of music, news, sports and talk. But the chains have increasingly turned the airwaves into McRadio, with little local flavor, brief news breaks and scant noncrisis coverage. The percentage of Americans who listen to radio for at least 15 minutes at any given time has fallen to 14.5%, from 17.5% in 1989, reports Inside Radio. Commercial stations are "losing out on the growth in the U.S. population," says Inside analyst Tony Sanders. NPR's Stern says this trend "has been to the detriment of radio generally but to the benefit of public-radio listeners...
...recovering from what her doctors have identified as atypical pneumonia, a mysterious disease that has plagued southern China for months and is suspected to have erupted into the outside world in late February. In the space of two weeks, at least 10 victims have died and hundreds more have fallen ill in places as far afield as Hong Kong, New York, Rome and Toronto...
...China's secretive officials for keeping quiet so long about an epidemic that appears to have first struck in Guangdong province back in November. After months of media blackout, Beijing now maintains that the worst has passed. Only five patients in China have died, they say, while 305 have fallen ill with atypical pneumonia?a figure that dates back to mid-February. But forays into several hospitals in the provincial capital, Guangzhou, show that at ground zero new victims are still falling ill and dying. One local doctor estimates that the true figure of those afflicted is probably double...