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...major source of funding for scientific research is private money, and private money usually has a profit motive,” Dean said...
...enforcement of minimum drinking age laws should go beyond catching individual offenders and should ensure that establishments do not profit from such sales...
...suits are currently targeting the users who have the largest collections of files, generally 1000 or more. But even these students are not big fish for the industry to fry. These students are not trying to create a mass database of files to bootleg for profit but are simply interested in more songs for their own personal use and should not be targeted. Their only crime is tying up university networks with their high-traffic sharing, and individual universities—not the federal courts—should take action...
...bought in the early 1990s from Hilton Group for a reported $25 million, but by the time it opened in 1995, decorator Jacques Garcia had spent so much on leopard-skin prints and ferns that the Costes were rumored to be in serious trouble. Yet the hotel became a profit machine, churning out about €3.8 million on revenue of about €18.4 million in 1999, the last year it reported figures. The ultimate secret ingredient is stardust, which is why Jean-Louis hired Claude "Coco" Bakonyi as schmoozer in chief. Bakonyi handled meet-and-greet chores for TV station...
...Comic Book Legal Defense Fund; 290 pp.; $9.95) continues the series of SPX anthologies that have become comix' greatest annual bargain. You can even (maybe) write it off on your taxes since it's published by the non-profit CBLDF - an organization that provides legal assistance to comix professionals with First Amendment troubles. The book appears in tandem with the Small Press Expo (SPX), an annual convention for alternative comix publishers that takes place every September. (It's happening this weekend in Bethesda, Maryland. See the SPX website for details...