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...English, which won't hit U.S. theaters until July. Just about every song ever released--as well as quite a few that haven't been--is available online for nothing more than the effort it takes to point and click. Record-industry types have a cute nickname for this phenomenon: "the celestial jukebox...
...sense, the future is already here. You can see it in action in Asia. Piracy is a growing phenomenon in the U.S., but in some developing countries, it is a fact of life. There's a marketplace in Karachi, Pakistan, where you can buy a DVD of How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days for 100 rupees (about $1.75) even while it's playing in first-run theaters in the U.S. Karachi boasts five optical-disc factories, just one of which churns out 40 million pirated discs a year. If you think American teenagers are guiltless, file-swapping punks...
...display of bad timing re-elected Cuba to its human rights commission last week, has given Castro little more than a slap on the wrist - as have his Latin American neighbors. But Europe's legions of Castro admirers, from politicians to artists, are increasingly siding with Payá, a phenomenon that could dampen European enthusiasm for travel to Cuba, which is often driven by the island's chic revolutionary cachet. Portugal's Nobel-prizewinning novelist, José Saramago, once a Castro admirer, wrote in a stinging editorial last month that "this is as far as I go" with Cuba...
...start in college, but it’s here that they spread and come to fruition. The boys in the club mutually reinforce these attitudes—they’re institutionalized by initiation rights and the traditions enshrined in club memory. It starts with male privilege, a phenomenon produced and reproduced by men who feel profoundly alienated from women; it spreads through human contact. Boys come in and pick up the mores. Maybe they’re not all bad kids to begin with—I know they’re not, as some of them were friends...
...interest, as a software developer, is the Web as a writing environment. The current state of the art in writing on the Web is the phenomenon of weblogs, which have been written about far and wide, but in many ways are still just getting started...