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...Retail sales for audio books (which typically cost around $17 for a two- cassette package) reached $1.2 billion in 1993, up 40% from the year before. Titles and celebrity readers are proliferating. Sharon Stone has just been signed to narrate The Scarlet Letter. Gone With the Wind is about to be released on tape for the first time, unabridged on 30 cassettes. "Nine years ago, only 8% of the population had heard a book on tape; now it's close to 25%," says Michael Viner, co-founder of Dove Audio, a nine-year-old Los Angeles company that helped pioneer...
More compelling was a discovery at nearby research lab Lawrence Berkeley, where an outsider apparently slipped into a restricted system, set up a secret file server and loaded it with thousands of dollars' worth of stolen software - like Power Japanese (retail: $395) and the unreleased game Alien Legacy - the L.A. Times found. But if these pirate locations are so secret, how do Net users ever find them? Through Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channels that span the Net and elude all but the most determined federal investigators...
...June 25, the Harvard University Dining Services officially moved their Purchasing, Retail Operations and Director's offices to their new location at 65-67 Winthrop Street...
...move consolidates those three offices under the same roof for the first time. The Director's Office was formerly located at 399 Harvard Street--underneath the rotunda at the Freshman Union-- while Purchasing and Retail Operations was squeezed into offices at 25 Mt. Auburn Street...
...Those seven years also introduced a rash | of previously unheard-of crimes, such as contract assassinations (about 100 last year) and murders by bombing (which the police now call "good-morning murders" because the explosions usually go off around dawn). A presidential study has concluded that virtually every retail trade booth, store, cafe and restaurant in the Russian capital pays protection money of up to 20% of gross receipts to organized crime. Resisters are beaten or killed. "In my 17 years on patrol," says police Lieut. Gennadi Groshikov, "I have never seen so much crime in Moscow; nor have...