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Riddlin’ Kids are a little different from the typical punk band: they grew up in Austin, a mecca for live music far away from the punk scenes on the East and West coasts. “We don’t have the whole regional sound. You hear some bands and you can tell they are from New Jersey. We’re from Texas, but we don’t have any steel guitars or fiddles or banjos,” said Baker in an interview with...
...Walls Have Ears A recent U.S. law extended Mickey Mouse's copyright for 20 years, but residents of Malta, Austria, now say they've housed him in their church for centuries. Restoration work uncovered a 700-year-old fresco that tourism officials hope will make the town a Mickey Mecca - and perhaps threaten Disney's copyright. Stanford professor Lawrence Lessig notes that a long-standing legal hypothetical asks: "What if two people independently wrote the same play?" The answer, he says: "Both get a copyright. Seems fact is stranger than cartoon." THE BOURSE Give 'Em Credit HSBC has for years...
...ones that can pressure Microsoft to open up - the firm's own clients have clout too, and they may be the most persuasive. BEVERAGES Muslims Sip The 'Real Thing' as soft-drink marketing goes, it's a bit more inflammatory than "the real thing." "Each time someone buys a Mecca-Cola," says the entrepreneur who has taken orders for 1.5 million bottles of the drink in Europe, "they're saying to George Bush, and the war-criminal Sharon, we don't agree with your policies." Responding to calls for a boycott of U.S. products across the Middle East, French Muslim...
...daring to question the Koran. The sages at Al-Azhar University in Egypt had found Taha guilty of apostasy for a thesis he developed in his book, The Second Mission of Islam. Taha argued that the Koran contains two categories of verses: those that the prophet Muhammad recited in Mecca and those recited in Medina. For Taha, the Medina verses, with their emphasis on legal rules, were written in a historical context that no longer exists, so Islam should instead focus on the spiritual and ethical message revealed in Mecca...
...where, you ask, would an academic develop teaching skills? Labs and libraries are not a mecca of social skill and public speaking ability. “They should learn in school,” you say? Yes, they should. But most graduate programs require extra semesters and tuition to complete a college-level teaching certificate, an unlikely choice for a starving graduate student eager to obtain university status with a brilliant dissertation. And we all know how successful required TF positions are for graduate students with no teaching talent whatsoever...