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...Google has its supporters. "I think a lot of [the criticism] has been unfair and really ignores the benefits this provides," says Paul Aiken, executive director of the Authors Guild. "We're talking about bringing books to people on the Internet - making sure that books stay relevant in the online age and that people have sources for facts that go beyond what's available on Wikipedia...
...think the publishing industry is under great stress trying to figure out how to operate in a world where it's very easy to make copies of things and to distribute copies of things - which is exactly the problem that the music industry faced," says Paul Courant, dean of libraries at the University of Michigan...
...Buck's HBO debut was marred, however, by a bizarre performance from Artie Lange, a comedian featured on Howard Stern's radio show. During a panel discussion that also featured actor Paul Rudd and Jason Sudeikis of Saturday Night Live, Lange unleashed a string of ribald remarks and quipped that the segment would be Buck's last. HBO said the appearance "bordered on bad taste." Said Buck: "Live is live. Things were said at the end that I am not a fan of, but people can judge what Artie said however they want...
...Africa is even worth it - ignited largely by the best-selling book Dead Aid, written by the Zambian economist Dambisa Moyo, who argues that $1 trillion in Western aid during the past 50 years has left the continent more poor and dependent. Her sentiments were echoed by Rwandan President Paul Kagame, who wrote in the Financial Times last month that "as long as poor nations are focused on receiving aid, they will not work to improve their economies." But others have pointed out that carefully directed aid can play a critical role in removing obstacles to economic development. Gates told...
...those kind of altitudes, the gap between excess speed and stalling narrows, especially when you factor in complications like turbulence," says Paul Hayes, director of the London-based Ascend Worldwide fleet consultancy, which advises global airlines and air-transport companies. Without the black box, Hayes adds, the alerts could provide some answers, but not all of them. "Correctly sequencing the cascade of technical reports the plane sent should give investigators clues into what was going wrong as it flew into difficult weather," he says. "At this point, the limited remains of the plane and its passengers recovered will probably...