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...wrong: Sneed likes animals as much as the next guy. But making provisions for the evacuation of pets, now mandated under state and federal law, adds one more layer of complexity to the already difficult task of getting people out of harm's way if a hurricane threatens Southeast Louisiana this year...
...also aimed to give farmers a fair and consistent price, "was initially done with a good purpose," says Arpita Mukherjee, a senior fellow at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, a New Delhi-based think tank. But over the years it grew into a monster, gaining layer upon layer of intermediaries, none of whom added any value to the fruits and vegetables they traded even as they added on their own margins. The result: a grossly inefficient system in which farmers are divorced from market feedback and often must wait months to be paid. Many farmers routinely...
...Amazon's move was actually a strategic salvo in the great secret war of the $60 billion music industry, the fight over Digital Rights Management, usually known by the spine-tinglingly thrilling abbreviation DRM. What's DRM? An invisible layer of software that bodyguards a computer file and limits what you can and can't do with it. Buy a song from Apple's iTunes Media Store, for example, and you can copy the file to five computers but no more. That's because the song comes with Apple's DRM software, FairPlay, baked in, and FairPlay...
...this is how he still plays). A car crash in his early 20s ("we were road racing and I drove my car into a ravine") gave him the limp that he still walks with at 45; in his head are two drainage holes, covered merely by a thin layer of skin, bored during brain surgery, the legacy of another smash that almost killed him. He will sit and drink Scotch after Scotch with disconcerting ease and tell of a bluesman's life-of scrapes with jealous musicians wanting to cut his fingers off, and of playing to audiences...
...Afraid?” will run through May 5. Large sofas and lounge chairs have replaced the normal audience seating of the theatre, and its normally dull, black walls have become like the inner walls of a house—complete with a large bay window. A layer of hardwood flooring completely covers the ground. The effect is that members of the audience literally walk into the living room of George and Martha, one of the two couples around whom “Who’s Afraid?” revolves. Set in a university town, the intense drama...