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...Siegel and Zaccagnino decided to pursue music full-time after Harvard, and they have since founded Indaba Music, a Web-based service that connects musicians around the world and allows them to record music online. The site now boasts more than 100,000 members and is growing rapidly.“We enjoyed bringing opportunities to Harvard musicians and I think this gave us the opportunity to do that on a much greater scale,” Siegel said.Meanwhile, the label established a recording studio in the Student Organization Center at Hilles. Current chief Spaniola took over last December.THE EVOLUTIONUnder...
...Cuba’s social security law should have been changed years ago. Long ago, Cuba’s excellent demographers had identified this demographic transition. Cuba’s population actually fell in 2006 and again in 2007 (while slightly rising in 2008) but the forecasts about the rapid aging predate these years. Why, then, was there no change sooner? Fidel Castro had the power to enact such a change but proved allergic to this and other reforms. It fell to Raúl Castro to have the guts to enact this change during his first year as president...
...year high against the U.S. dollar last month. While the Japanese currency has weakened somewhat recently, Bank of Japan governor Masaaki Shirakawa said Sunday that currency-market intervention was possible if the yen's rise resumes. "The strong yen at a time of rapid decline in the global economy has a big negative impact on our economy in the short term," Shirakawa said. (See pictures of Japan and the world...
...health impacts of this regulatory void go further. Factory farmers give their animals mountains of antibiotics to spur rapid growth, such that the Union of Concerned Scientists estimates that 70 percent of America’s antibiotics are now used on animals, not humans (the USDA doesn’t even bother recording their use, so no exact figures exist...
...those hoping for a rapid warming of relations - and that photo op! - Cyril, 63, might be the best candidate to succeed Alexy. Heading the powerful external-affairs department of the Patriarchate, he has been a leading Orthodox figure abroad and has long championed improved interfaith dialogue. He played a backroom role in reuniting the Moscow-based church with followers of the Russian Orthodox Church outside of Russia, though he has been criticized for allegedly profiting from the church's stake in the alcohol and tobacco trade in the 1990s...