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...bands can expect to score sneaker ads or globe-trotting tours. Record companies still need the music to make them money. But some 30% of the artists on EMI's books have yet to come back with a recording, and sliding CD sales mean that overall, only 3% of the label's artists are profitable. "The actual economic power of new music is declining at an extraordinary rate," says EMI's Hands. Keen to keep it alive, he is mulling changes to the way EMI's artists are rewarded. Out could go generous advances for some artists - "an excuse...
...expect that winning two Grammies would mean you could give up the day job. But when I meet the Soweto Gospel Choir's co-founder, David Mulovhedzi, at his home outside Johannesburg - two weeks after the choir won Best Traditional World Music Album for the second year running - he apologizes for rushing me. "I have to get back to work," he explains. Work, it turns out, is a job as a finance clerk in a cement wholesale business. "There are 10 people in my family," says Mulovhedzi, 60. "If I don't go to work, they'll starve...
...unfortunate incident with a squirrel that lived on my street. But he was only in a coma, and made a full recovery. I’m sure of it.I worked the blinkers like a pro, knew all the different speed settings of the windshield wipers, could make a mean three-point turn, and had even conquered the dreaded parallel-park maneuver. But apparently, the State of New York Department of Motor Vehicles just wasn’t impressed.Permit in hand and Driver’s Ed certificate by my side, I made my first driver’s test appointment...
Those two examples indicate Beijing is beginning to realize that it needs to be a good global citizen. But China's increasing willingness to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries does not mean the country isn't tending its own interests. Case in point: China's southern neighbor Nepal. Nepal has long looked to India as its natural ally in the region. But in the past few years successive governments in Kathmandu, perhaps sensing that Beijing and not New Delhi will be the real power in coming decades, have grown closer to China. Just how close...
...Stonehenge on his first day in England. "It's surprising there is traffic so close to such an historic site." The situation may soon get even worse: Last month, supermarket chain Tesco revealed plans to build a 280,000-square-foot warehouse 20 miles to east, which could mean scores more trucks a day rumbling past...