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SEARCH FOR SONGS ONLINE If you've heard of CD-quality music on the Web but aren't sure where to find it, a new search feature on Lycos lycos.com can get you started. Simply enter the name of a song or music group, then let the search engine scour some 1,000 sites with more than half a million songs stored in the MP3 format. One warning: some songs available online are pirated, and downloading them is illegal...
...Florida passed a law penalizing minors under 18 caught buying, smoking or possessing tobacco. Funded by money from an earlier $11.3 billion state settlement with the tobacco industry, special police patrols now scour public parks, malls and other places where teens light up. A first offense carries a fine of $53 or eight hours of community service. Kids caught smoking a third time automatically lose their driver's license. Some 800 young smokers have been ticketed...
...punks in his video court ("Don't call the court 'Dude,'" he tells one youth). Brown, 51, grew up in South Central Los Angeles and has the fervor of a missionary, spouting buzz words like "com-mun-i-ty." His producers, like those for the other shows, scour court filings in search of camera-worthy cases with strong narratives, but Brown achieves extra conflict by pursuing civil actions that spring from criminal cases. "We're not really just small claims," he says. "We will be dealing with some very deep-level raw material." That does help make his show more...
Since the college market is a two-way business, with admissions officers trying to buy the best students and students trying to get the best deal, it's important that you scour the landscape for all possibilities. In some cases, you may find a better bargain far from home, on a campus that values geographic diversity; in others, you may find a steal right under your nose...
...times Lamberth has been flinching at Klayman's scour-every-corner approach. Three weeks ago, he quashed a Klayman subpoena to New Yorker writer Mayer. Klayman was hoping to depose Mayer and obtain all her notes and source materials from the past six years, a give-me-every-word-you-ever-heard demand that sent alarms among journalists. Lamberth forbade the subpoena, saying the old material had no bearing on the heart of Klayman's lawsuit. "That's when Filegate began," is how Klayman explains it. "We wanted to see if she knew anything about Filegate...