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ALANIS MORISSETTE'S 1995 album, Jagged Little Pill, provided an anthem for a generation of breakups and, to the delight of music retailers, sold 30 million copies. Ten years later, Morissette is getting dumped by those stores, who resent the Ottawa-born singer's hawking an acoustic version of Jagged exclusively at Starbucks for the first six weeks of its release. HMV Canada and indie U.S. music stores are removing Morissette's old CDs from their shelves in protest. "Anytime there's a paradigm shift like this, people are going to be resistant," the singer says. "It happened with...
Open mouth, insert red pill. The world you know isn't the real world. It's not the Matrix, either. Beneath the surface of our pedestrian daily life a war is being waged. In one corner is a secret alliance of powerful mystics (called Travelers) and badass sword-wielding ninjas (known as Harlequins) who protect the Travelers; in the other is that shadowy organization the Tabula. At stake? The fate of civilization. Of course, this is all completely nuts--but it's also the stuff that first-rate high-tech paranoid-schizophrenic thrillers are made...
...which sold nearly a third of its 3 million copies at barista stations. That success has lent Starbucks new clout with music companies. Madonna's Maverick label gave Starbucks an exclusive six-week window to sell Alanis Morissette's all-acoustic version of her first hit album, Jagged Little Pill, and the coffee company is launching a new girl group, Antigone Rising, whose debut CD (from Lava Records) is available only through Starbucks. "With file-sharing being as rampant as it is, the industry is competing with free," says Jim Donio, head of the National Association of Recording Merchandisers. "Getting...
...someone 65 or older, keeping track of bottles of pills can be a challenge. A study presented to the American Heart Association found elderly patients taking high-blood-pressure medication were more likely to have prescriptions refilled on time if their drugs came in a blister pack. Unlike bottles, blister packs act as pill calendars--making it easier to determine when a pill has been taken...
Former Iranian president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani decided to "swallow the bitter pill," as he put it, and become a candidate in Iran's presidential vote scheduled for June 17. "The Commander of Construction," as supporters call him because his policies kick-started the devastated Iranian economy after the Iran-Iraq war, ended months of speculation by publishing a manifesto; it promises to rein in extremism within the country, attract international confidence, support gender equality and spur economic growth. The wily Rafsanjani, 70, is seen as a consensus builder, giving him an advantage over other top candidates such as former...