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...digital music business is one of the prime battlefields right now, with new vendors entering all the time. In the week alone leading up to Nokia's announcement, giant retailer Wal-Mart strengthened its downloading service, and MTV, Real Networks and Verizon Wireless joined music forces. They're all chasing a digital download business that the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry says grew to $2.1 billion in 2006, or 11% of all recorded music sales, as more artists embrace it. "Any band that's resistant to it is crazy," says Adam Levine, lead singer of Grammy-winning L.A. group...
...valley of Elah is where the Philistines sent out their Goliath to terrify the Israelites, and where young David felled the giant with his trusty slingshot. Haggis wants you to ask: In Iraq, who is the good guy, who the enemy? And how does one turn into the other...
...went out there and had to come up with a winner," says Ray Neidl, U.S. director of Calyon Securities. "That aircraft would have to be a mainstay in the international, wide-bodied, long-distance competition for years to come." The lesson was kicked off by Airbus' announcement of the giant A380 in 2000, when it was still called the A3XX program. Boeing initially parried with plans for the Sonic Cruiser, to travel nearly the speed of sound, or 20% faster than the Mach 0.85 of conventional jets. "It would have been great for North American, European and Asian markets...
...mountain village of Yole was a bleak place until a giant, broken clipper ship mysteriously appeared in the town's little lake. How it got there and what would happen if the people of Yole rebuilt it are the secrets at the center of the novel Nacky Patcher and the Curse of the Dry-Land Boats, by TIME senior editor Jeffrey Kluger. Author of several other books including the best seller Apollo 13, Kluger is making his first venture into young-adult fiction. Publishers Weekly calls the book "a fully imagined fantasy with a twist of magic...
ANGELO MOZILO, head of struggling mortgage giant Countrywide, on the dim prospects for improving the U.S. housing market...