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...boasts chairman Rupert, son James and three other News Corp. executives. A starker question is whether James, the youngest of Murdoch's four adult children, is really the right man for the job. He was a reluctant entrant into the family empire, having started his own independent hip-hop label after dropping out of Harvard. He had a hand in one of Murdoch's early Internet ventures, Delphi, which was a costly disaster. He then took over the entire new-media sector for News Corp., which lost hundreds of millions of dollars and never created a leading web-site...
...safety issue first arose in the '60s, when cyclamates were banned as likely carcinogens. Saccharin, which is found in Sweet'n Low, was labeled a possible carcinogen in the early '70s and had to carry a warning until 2000. Products with aspartame (NutraSweet) have always been labeled dangerous for people with phenylketonuria, a relatively rare condition. And sucralose (marketed as Splenda) bears no warning label...
...from Guitar Center's sales floor, "becoming a musician is all about dreaming. The longer we can extend the dream phase, the better." In the past several years, the dream phase got a boost from advances in digital recording technology. Artists like Geonetta who don't have a record-label contract used to have to pay tens of thousands of dollars for studio time plus distribution costs. But now amateurs can produce CDs with their home PCs and cheap recording and mixing gear--there's even a free version of the industry-standard music-editing software called Pro Tools available...
...check. Best-selling thriller--also check. What is there left for Neal Stephenson--author of Snow Crash, Zodiac and Cryptonomicon, among other novels--to write? The answer is The Baroque Cycle, a stunning 3,000-page trilogy about 17th century scientists that will defy any category, genre, precedent or label--except for genius. (That's right, I'm using the g-word...
...know: Spoon was once a band teetering toward failure. It was the late '90s, and Spoon was playing competent post-punk in the tradition of Wire and the Pixies. And in the post-punk tradition, the group was widely ignored. After a two-month affiliation with a major label, Spoon had its contract revoked. The band was deemed not only hopelessly uncommercial but also hopelessly uninteresting...