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...order came in at midnight. The soldiers were at their base in Beit Lid, at the edge of the West Bank in northern Israel, preparing to launch an assault against wanted Palestinian militants. As the elite unit reviewed its plans, Israeli intelligence officials phoned the commanders with an updated mission. A suspected terrorist had been tracked to a residential building in Nablus, the densely populated Palestinian city known to Israelis as the West Bank's capital of terror. In the past year Israeli forces claim to have caught or killed 120 Palestinians with plans to head from Nablus to Israel...
...Napster brand; MusicNet, begun by the three other big labels, is now offered by America Online (which, like TIME, is owned by AOL Time Warner). Yet the growing business potential brings ever more newcomers. At least 10 new services plan to go live in coming months. Roxio expects to launch a made-over Napster before the end of the year; CEO Chris Gorog says 1 million potential customers have requested e-mail updates. MusicMatch plans to introduce a pay-per-song music store in weeks...
...doesn't yet compensate. "It's not a way to make a lot of money," acknowledges Jobs. No, it's a way to help sell iPods. Apple says sales of the music-storing, high-profit-margin palm-size gadgets almost quadrupled between the quarters before and after iTunes' launch. Apple's approach borrows from a proven business tactic. "Westinghouse created radio shows to sell radios," notes Lee Black, an analyst with Jupiter Research. AOL Music takes a cut from songs sold through MusicNet, but its ka-ching comes from the 16 million visitors it delivers each month to advertisers like...
...GOOD AND BAD: Made a splash with its July launch as a PC answer to iTunes. But rules and restrictions on downloads that vary by song can leave heads, not tunes, spinning...
...them from riding the baby-boomer nostalgia wave to its lucrative peak, told a news conference last week that they would finally reunite for a 36-city concert tour starting next month in Michigan. After more than two decades of on-and-off estrangement, the pair was inspired to launch Old Friends: The 2003 Concert Tour after reconciling for a warmly received performance of Sound of Silence at the Grammys last February. "It's family, the two of us," Garfunkel said. "Our moms know each other." And they couldn't get you to play nice for 20 years...