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...compared with the $21 billion of the terrestrial-radio industry, more than 4 million people in the U.S. visit Pandora and Last.fm each month, according to comScore Media Metrix. That makes them the fifth and sixth most popular Web radio stations in the country. "It's the ideal middle ground between having an intact experience and being in control of what you receive," says Last.fm co-founder Martin Stiksel...
...Israeli fighters appeared in the skies, strafing Jordanian posts along the Samarian hills, and the family decided to flee. They were not alone; the roads were clogged with thousands of panicked families as more than 350,000 refugees left for Jordan. Within a few hours, Nazmeia fell to the ground, groaning, giving birth. The family pulled out of the stream of people, and as the bombs fell, she crept into the thornbushes and delivered a baby boy, Omar al-Nakhla...
...advantage Dingell will have in crossing party lines is his record in defending the U.S.'s industrial interests. He stands squarely on the only common ground Congress has found concerning global warming. In 1997 the Senate voted unanimously to condemn Kyoto-treaty provisions that would exempt China and other developing nations from mandatory carbon reductions...
Since taking office last December, Mexican President Felipe Calderón has deployed almost 25,000 army troops to battle the cartels. So far, the bloodshed has only escalated. And now, there are fewer people left to honestly report what's happening on the ground...
...Army Human Resources Command have detected an increasing shortfall in the number of junior officers, particularly captains, who are willing to stay in the service. Captains are to combat units what quarterbacks are to football teams: they lead, direct and decide the details of nearly every operation on the ground. By the time they approach re-enlistment, most captains have about eight years in uniform and are the most experienced officers who still work directly with new recruits. "If you start losing company-grade officers, that has a long-term, deleterious impact," said Senator Jack Reed, a Rhode Island Democrat...