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...Group, Sony BMG and EMI (Snocap is still in talks with Warner Music)--as well as many independent ones have agreed to participate in the database, already half a million songs large. Because of copy protection, the tracks aren't iPod compatible. Snocap and providers are hoping restrictions will loosen...
...Muslim. The U.S. has been pushing Mubarak to democratize. But Wayne White, a former top Middle East expert in the State Department, predicts that the Egyptian government will let terrorists goad it into overreacting. In recent years, White says, authoritarian governments in the region became convinced that "if you loosen up, you're in trouble." More worrisome: one of the groups claiming responsibility for the blasts said it has ties to al-Qaeda. "It is part of a bigger project that entails confronting America and Israel and, after that, nonmilitant Arab regimes," says Egyptian political analyst Hala Mustafa...
...United States will loosen visa restrictions for Chinese scholars and students studying in America, the State Department announced last month, giving in to the demands of universities, like Harvard, that have lobbied for years to see the policy change...
Business groups had mixed views about the proposed changes. While companies generally favor efforts to loosen antitrust restrictions, many fear that calls for broad reforms may arouse strong opposition. Some observers were particularly wary of the provision to relax laws to allow mergers of rival firms in distressed industries. Said Joe Sims, a Washington, D.C., antitrust attorney who represents large industrial companies: "It's got to be a real lightning rod. It's going to attract a lot of controversy and criticism...
Melton has often reiterated that he wants the U.S. to loosen restrictions on how federal funds can be distributed—arguing that the ostensible license to conduct stem cell research is useless unless the government backs scientists financially...