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Apple chairman Steve Jobs just may have found the magic formula for getting people to pay for songs they download. Apple's new iTunes Music Store is the first paid music service to eliminate monthly fees and let people burn songs to an unlimited number of CDs. You can even copy songs to the iPod portable music player. In the first 18 hours after the Music Store went live on April 28, buyers paid for an estimated 275,000 songs (for 99¢ a track or about $10 an album) according to Billboard magazine's daily news service...
...plan. "They didn't work members on the front end," complains a senior Republican Senate aide. "They only started talking to them after senators had taken their positions. That won't do." They also complain that the administration relied too heavily on the president's war popularity as the magic element that would push the plan through. Several Republicans took note of an ABC poll last week that says that 57 percent of those asked said that the president's plan favors the rich...
...will figure out nutrition before the dietitians do") and got a recent validation when short-term studies showed a lack of negative effects from the diet. (A long-term study is in the works.) Atkins never wavered from his insistence that his low-carb approach was the dieter's "magic breakthrough." --By Harriet Barovick...
...things. There are the mysterious moving boulders on the Racetrack's remote dry lake bed, for example, or the beehive-shaped charcoal kilns of Wildrose Canyon. Just the other day Woodruff came across a scenic Depression-era back road that runs between Furnace Creek Ranch and Stovepipe Wells. "The magic of this place," he says, "makes me hunger for Death Valley more each year...
...Like Aurora's grandmother, Rhodes understands the subversive power of the simple tale, well told. And it's the tradition of European fairy and folktales that his stories evoke - where fixed notions of place and time evaporate, plots and passions hinge on chance encounters, and deform-ity and magic are the stuff of life. Despite his low profile to date in Britain, Rhodes' fabulist books have been translated into nine languages. And Timoleon Vieta is a very un-British novel. Not that it matters. It is funny, beguiling and sentimental, with a dark undertow that will tug at the memory...