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...Wish started enlisting other teachers who were music hobbyists to help him take his program to more schools. Little Kids Rock has grown steadily since then, thanks to grants, gifts from instrument manufacturers--including $120,000 in drum kits this year and proceeds from sales of student CDs. Next year Wish, who operated on a modest $150,000 budget this year, plans to launch classes in Los Angeles, Chicago and Boston. He's also recruiting musicians for Little Kids, Big Fans, a CD of real rock stars playing his students' songs...
...argument for sticking with regular music classes. Except that in most cases, there are no regular music classes. Sixty percent of students in grades K through 12 in the U.S. get no music at all in school, according to the Music Education Coalition, a group made up of instrument makers and music teachers. There are several for-profit programs that give lessons in rock music, including one that claims to have inspired the Jack Black movie. But Little Kids Rock's national scope and nonprofit status make it unique. Wish, more pedagogue than punk when class is out, makes...
...already got digital music files like MP3s and digital music players like the iPod, so why not create music with a digital instrument in the first place? In January, Gibson will be the first musical-instrument maker to release an electric guitar with a digitizing microprocessor and circuit board built right in. When a player strums the guitar, the analog signal from each of the six strings is converted into a digital file and then pushed out of the guitar through an Ethernet connection attached to the instrument. The resulting sound is much clearer and less susceptible to all sorts...
...Ugandan prison service has recently released a report that cites human urine as the key instrument used by 15 inmates to secure their escape from a prison outside of Kampala last April...
...person IGC is certainly an unwieldy instrument of power. It was handpicked by Bremer with a view to representing Iraq's ethnic diversity, but its inclusiveness may actually preclude it from taking decisive action. Its presidency, for example, is rotated on a month by month basis among seven different leaders, each with his own distinct agenda. The IGC's problems, however, are not simply rooted in its cumbersome structure. They reflect an absence of consensus among Iraqis over a post-Saddam order. The Kurds favor a federation that would give them maximum autonomy in northern Iraq, but the Sunnis...