Word: formations
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...format leaves considerable power in the hands of those previously selected by the U.S. to serve in the various councils. Even then, however, it could be a shambolic process: the political differences that paralyzed the Iraqi Governing Council will only be exacerbated now that the IGC's component parts are forced into open competition with one another for seats in the new assembly. Their political survival and prosperity now depends on their ability to stack the provincial nominating conventions with their supporters. For some, like the Kurdish parties that have a strong regional base, it's a relatively easy path...
Despite its changed format, the new SAT seems likely only to reinforce the socio-economic bias of the exam. Consider the new writing section. According to Fitzsimmons, writing skills strongly correlate with personalized education more often received by students from affluent backgrounds. He said, “In the real world I would make one prediction, the writing, the third R, really does require small classes and lots of individual attention. You will see students from poorer backgrounds do quite badly on the writing portion...
...disarmingly simple concept: sell songs in digital format for less than a buck and let buyers play them whenever and wherever they like--as long as it's on an Apple iPod. Jobs had proved the idea back in April when he launched the Music Store for Mac users, who represent only 3% of the computer world but promptly gobbled up a million tracks in the first week of business. By October he was ready to set the Music Store aloft in the 97% of the world that uses Windows PCs, and the prospect of converting millions of music pirates...
Such calculation may also explain why iTunes doesn't support Windows Media Audio files--a Microsoft format that Bill Gates had hoped would become the music-industry standard. If iTunes becomes the player of choice for PC users, it would be a blow for Microsoft's grander audio ambitions--and may well unearth the hatchet that Jobs and Gates buried back...
...York City, also reports an annual increase in graphic novel sales, most particularly in manga. Could graphic novels eventually make the traditional comic book disappear? Frank Miller, author of "The Dark Knight Returns," recently shocked a comics industry crowd at the annual Eisner awards by pronouncing the format to be a goner, declaring, "Our future is not in pamphlets." Nick Purpura disputes this, saying, "the serialized versions pay for the trades. That way publishers get to sell it twice - once to comics fans and again to people who only buy collections." Even so, he says, "books that sold marginally...