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...Cuba's record industry is entirely government run, from the recording studios to the record stores. Which means that raperos, like bus drivers, hotel clerks and doctors and lawyers, work for the state. And state bureaucracies never move quickly; Cuban officials were slow to recognize the commercial potential of homegrown hip-hop. Indeed, the members of Orishas became so frustrated that they relocated to Europe when a French producer offered them a contract. Their album A Lo Cubano sold more than 400,000 copies in Europe and spawned countless bootlegs in Cuba. Orisha member Ruzzo says, "Cuba is still...
Still, Brazilians love their homegrown musicians. They resist the onslaught of American acts, the Britney Spears and the 'N Syncs, the Stainds and the Limp Bizkits. Some 70% of CDs sold in Brazil are by Brazilian artists--a higher percentage of local music than is sold in France, Italy, Britain or any other European country...
...users can plug PDAs directly into phone lines for Internet access, a useful feature in a country where less than 2% of the population owns a computer. But the China market is hindered by a lack of common software standards. Each PDA maker has gone its own way, creating homegrown?and incompatible?programs for each device. There is little incentive for the independent software developers that have helped come up with 10,000 applications for Palm and more than 650 for Microsoft's Windows...
Italian authorities expect trouble from homegrown anarchist groups, like Ya Basta! (Enough Already!), a loosely organized network founded in 1996 and inspired by Mexico's Zapatista rebels. Ya Basta!'s members show up at European demos clad in white overalls to symbolize "the invisibility" of marginalized people, and while they claim not to engage in rock-hurling aggression, they don't condemn the use of violence. In 1998 Ya Basta! gave rise to a more expansive anarchist movement that calls itself Tutte Bianche (White Overalls) and draws its members from Italy's 200 "social centers"--communes where young radicals organize...
ICHIRO SUZUKI First ever rookie to top All-Star voting. Another steal for Japan's homegrown hero...