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...slumping record industry's best hope? Glue. To combat online piracy, Epic Records has started shipping music critics personal cd players that are glued shut. Sealed inside the Walkmans, to prevent any unauthorized copying, are upcoming releases by Tori Amos, Pearl Jam AND audioslave (The remnants of Rage Against The Machine and Soundgarden). "It's a low-tech response to a high-tech problem," says Epic spokeswoman Lisa Markowitz. "A walkman costs $50, and we could be saving hundreds of thousands of dollars by preventing this music from getting out." Critics are asked to return the cd player...
...Bosporus. The Old City, or Sultanahmet, to the south of the Golden Horn, is where you'll find all the main sights, including the Topkapi Palace, the Blue Mosque, Hagia Sofia, the Hippodrome and the Grand Bazaar, a maze of some 4,000 shops. This small area is jam-packed with wonders and best explored on foot. Until recently, many treasures were locked away or poorly exhibited. But the city's museums are improving. Topkapi Palace contains carpets, jewels, ceramics and other imperial items. The Archaeology Museum next door houses important Roman and Byzantine artifacts. Also not to be missed...
...even a sign at the cemetery pointing the way to the museum. "This whole thing got out of hand," he says. "This is my mother's resting place, not Graceland." The sons also objected to the sale of "Audrey Hepburn" chocolates, lavender from her garden, pots of homemade jam from local fruit and paintings of the house. Françoise Meier, whose daughter went to the village elementary school with Ferrer, says the charges of commercialization "are ridiculous. There's nothing trashy about what we sell at the museum. And nobody profits from tourism. We have no shops...
What explains this remarkable record? Part of the answer is that U.S. aircraft generally fly above 20,000 ft., beyond the reach of Iraqi guns. At the same time, electronic-warfare planes jam the guidance systems of any Iraqi missiles threatening U.S. planes. The pilots believe that only a "golden BB"--a lucky shot--can force them down inside Iraq. They say the Iraqis are generally firing blindly, scared to turn on anything that emits radiation and might trigger a U.S. missile strike. "They're so petrified, they won't even turn on their microwave ovens," says Captain "Blade" Wilkins...
DIED. MICHAEL HOUSER, 40, singer-guitarist for the rock group Widespread Panic, among the most popular of the jam bands influenced by the Grateful Dead; of pancreatic cancer; in Athens...