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...highly specialized and built on a different technology altogether. Napster-ites need to shift en masse to a single alternative service if they want the same levels of choice. But which one: Splooge? Tripnosis? Filetopia? SongSpy? It's hard to make a decision when you are an anonymous, headless horde with as many different musical tastes as languages. Rather like trying to rebuild the Tower of Babel, only with more Britney Spears bootlegs...
...since the French Revolution have so many executive heads rolled--courtesy of falling profits and stock prices and impatient boards--leaving vacancies strewn all over the FORTUNE 500. Maytag, 3M, Lucent and Gillette are among the headless, and any one of them could rain instant millions on Nardelli or McNerney or similarly qualified executives...
...fabled city could yield even more evidence of early Egyptian culture than divers have retrieved from Menouthis. There they have hauled from the sea a basalt head of a pharaoh, a bust of the curly-haired and bearded god Serapis and a life-size, headless statue of the goddess Isis, as well as gold coins and jewelry...
...cannot survive without the oceans, for example, but they can do just fine without us. One might surmise that the natural world exists to test our capacity to care or to preserve ourselves, but even that little fancy is man-made. Nature goes its own way, headless and heartless, and one either responds to it or does not. The incentive to do one or the other is wholly self-generated: information is gathered, proposals are put forward, solutions are devised, Earth Days come...
...most recent book, The Headless Bust: A Melancholy Meditation on the False Millennium, was published last October by Harcourt Brace...