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...free-music model looks like it may end up costing MySpace and other providers more than they had originally bargained: In an agreement announced Sept. 23, the music industry said it planned to adopt a sliding fee scale for free-music-streaming sites; instead of the 9.1 cents per song that is currently paid to songwriters, composers and producers, streaming sites will now owe about 10.5% of their overall profits. For listeners, however, the music will still be 100% free...
...house and is often erratic and haphazard. More residents of the houses must be willing to participate in their HoCos and determine how to best spend this money. Whether this means standardizing the HoCo election process or allowing for more non-officer input, a larger group of students per house should become involved to best spend the cash in HoCos’ deeper pockets...
...Dairy products traditionally have not been an important part of the Chinese diet. But government and industry promotional efforts have boosted consumption. The average annual per capita milk consumption of Chinese has grown from just 2 kg (4.4 pounds) in 1980 to 22 kg (48.5 pounds...
...Obama's Infrastructure Bank illustrates two other principles that could work to the next President's advantage. First, at a cost of $6 billion per year, it is less than 1/100th the size of the proposed financial bailout - a lot of programs that used to sound big seem like peanuts now. Second, it is a program that would create jobs and strengthen the economy. The next President will have to argue that any new policy program will be an investment in economic growth. Given the budgetary realities, it will be easier to get money through Congress for energy programs that...
...group of private insurance plans. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the Wyden proposal would eventually be revenue-neutral (that is, it wouldn't cost any additional money). According to health-insurance experts at the nonpartisan Lewin Group, it would save money for those making less than $150,000 per year. "It sounds good, but it's really hard to pass anything this complicated," Kamarck warns. "You tell people you're going to take their employer-provided health insurance away, and they'll rip your guts out. It would have to be done gradually...