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...roomful of fledgling journalists if they would be willing to die for the truth, and not a hand will be raised. They do not mean no, exactly. They simply give the hypothesis a pocket veto. They think, for one thing, that the question is too darkly phrased and even implies an obscure promise of martyrdom - not normally the journalist's line of work. Ask the young roomful, instead, whether they would be willing to risk their lives to cover extreme situations in faraway places and report the truth, and the best in the room will get a gleam in their...
That's what it feels like to use the three paid digital-music services that are jockeying for your pocket in the wake of the old Napster's demise. They are MusicNet, owned by three of the five big record labels; Pressplay, owned by the other two; and a prelaunch trial version of the newly legal Napster. All three are so restrictive, you would think you were downloading homeland-security documents, not 'N Sync. And because the record labels are still squabbling about Internet licensing, nobody has a complete selection except those street-corner kids: morally dubious services like Morpheus...
...ELVIS TREASURES This coffee-table scrapbook is filled with reproductions of Elvisabilia, from a contract with RCA to an eighth-grade library card, which readers can tuck into the pocket of their best rhinestone-studded jumpsuit...
...degrees of import protection for decades. If tariffs and quotas were a formula for success, U.S. mills should already be world beaters. Instead of investing in new equipment and improving worker efficiency, too many U.S. mills and their unions have used artificially high steel prices as an invitation to pocket more in profits, pay and benefits than their competitors abroad--or their customers at home--have done. "Between 1972 and 1981, when import controls were severe, steel wages rose 179% while productivity declined," Goodrich and Gary Hufbauer, also an economist with the Institute for International Economics, wrote in a policy...
...year), are also the lowest paid: the newcomers are building a collection of supplies they will have throughout their careers. Some relief may be in sight: in his budget proposal President Bush included a tax deduction of up to $400 for teachers paying classroom expenses out of pocket. The measure must still be approved by Congress. Until then, teachers will continue to foot the bill. "This profession attracts a special breed," says Jeanne Hayes, of QED. "Obviously, they're not in it for the money...