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...play tunes that sound similar, regardless of artist or genre. It's a laborious process, but the potential rewards are tremendous. Give it an hour of your time, and you'll feel like Radio Me is on the air, free of cookie cutters and rankings. If they'd only fix the sound quality, its pitch would be perfect...
OPEC wants to play Alan Greenspan to the world's oil economy, but rogue member Iraq and the U.S. economic slowdown could foil the oil cartel's best efforts. The cartel - which meets out in the open to fix prices, despite the fact that half its members are also members of the World Trade Organization, whose rules forbid such practices - is due to convene in Vienna next week, and is expected to agree to reduce the world's oil supply by 1.5 million barrels...
...Lividoti, interim director of vocational education, says not all of the violations the state found were as serious as D'Alessandro suggested. Some violations, like the lack of advisory committees for each vocational program, were "cosmetic," he says. He adds that teachers have already begun to fix many of the problems...
Most students taking auto mechanics, for instance, want to learn how to fix their own cars, not train to be auto mechanics, Lividoti says...
...CRITICS LOVE IT This is elevated soap opera filmed with patience and subtlety. A Taipei family tiptoes individually and together to the precipice of crisis: a father whose business needs a new-media fix from a Japanese swami (the marvelous Issey Ogata), a mother who seeks emotional solace in a Buddhist retreat, plus other hearts breaking from romantic despair or breaking down from old age. Opening with a wedding fracas and closing with a funeral, Yi Yi puts the trials of three generations delicately on view...