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...more summons. In late February, RIAA president Cary Sherman invoked the law in a letter to the presidents of 2,000 of America’s colleges and universities, lamenting the “extensive and unacceptable” problem of piracy on campuses. His letter goes on to insist that college administrators fulfill their “reasonable role” by setting up technological barriers on networks and alerting its students of impending lawsuits. The pressure on universities has spread to the federal government as well. Congressman Howard L. Berman (D-Calif), whose district includes much of Hollywood...
...McCain veterans insist their candidate hasn't changed, just his prospects. "The key difference is, hopefully, this is a winning campaign," says his chief strategist John Weaver. Trying to rekindle the old magic, they rearranged his schedule to put him back on the Straight Talk Express bus this month. But that could distract him from another goal in this critical period: building up his campaign coffers so that he has the financial muscle of a front-runner when the tallies are released for the first reporting period, which ends March...
...Some sustainable supporters even insist making a green Allston wouldn’t cost much more than building it the traditional...
...milk enthusiasts have a different perspective. They insist that along with the bad pathogens, heat-treating milk destroys beneficial bacteria, proteins and enzymes that aid in digestion. Some people with a history of digestive-tract problems, such as Crohn's disease, swear by the curative powers of unpasteurized milk. Others praise its nutritional value and its ability to strengthen the immune system. "I have seen so many of my patients recover their health with raw milk that I perceive this as one of the most profoundly healthy foods you can consume," says Dr. Joseph Mercola, an osteopathic physician and author...
...regional health-care training center and a fund to underwrite home mortgages. Advocates in the region hope those sorts of new approaches will be just the start. In Mexico, advocates for the rural poor - hundreds of thousands of whom migrate illegally to the U.S. each year to work - insist there are myriad efforts the U.S. could aid to curtail the flow at its source, inside Mexico, instead of throwing billions at building walls along the border. One is the growing number of microcredit banks that help remote rural towns finance businesses. "If I could sit down with Presidents Bush...