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...reporter Daniel Pearl; a boy, ADAM D. PEARL; in Paris. Pearl's family, in a written statement, said, "The name Adam symbolizes the birth of humankind and the connectedness of civilizations... We are hopeful Adam's generation will see the emergence of an era in which tolerance and understanding reign...
...cold. In fact, it's still not clear that free sites are even bad for business. The industry blamed online piracy for last year's 5% drop in CD sales, but didn't mention that CD sales climbed to record levels in 2000, at the height of Napster's reign. According to Jupiter Media, 84% of music swappers claim to spend more or the same on music now than before they started trading files. That may be disputable, but one thing's certain - lawsuits and subscription sites haven't worked. The relationship between consumers and music has changed...
Beating out national teams was an appropriate way to begin a season in which Harvard won the Rowe Cup for overall heavyweight supremacy at EARC Sprints and extended its reign over the Charles to a fifth year...
...combination of introversion and rigidity came as close as anything has to destroying her reign. The catalyst was the death of Diana, whose publicity-soaked campaign to become Queen of people's hearts resonated on levels Elizabeth had never contemplated. Courtiers could not initially persuade the Queen to fly the royal standard at Buckingham Palace at half-mast (it had not been lowered when her father the King died) or to make any convincingly warm gesture toward the memory of Diana-who had been leaking viciously against the Windsors for years. Angry crowds, furious commentators and smart advisers persuaded Elizabeth...
...Scientists are pretty sure that an asteroid or comet ended the 135-million-year reign of the dinosaurs. A huge chunk of space debris slammed into the earth 65 million years ago, blasting a pall of dust into the air. With the sun blocked, temperatures plunged and light-starved plants at the bottom of the food chain died. Bad news for the dinos, good news for the rodent-like beasts that suddenly had breathing room to begin evolving into...