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...produce and sell the music. "The music industry is still much closer to its artists than to its customers," says Paco Underhill of Envirosell Inc., a consumer-behavior research firm in New York City. Record companies, he observes, sell CDs exactly the same way they sold LPs: as one-size-fits-all package deals. Meanwhile, consumers with shrinking leisure hours and attention spans are demanding that their music be portable and personalized or at least varied. Movie sound tracks like the one from Titanic, for example, are scoring big, while such unlikely music retailers as Starbucks...
...MiniDisc format makes compromises in audio quality, using a data-compression method that renders it less accurate than CDs. At $300 to $500, MiniDisc recorders are less costly than full-size CD recorders but far pricier than the portable players they aim to displace...
...habitat that was once the relatively exclusive domain of the cougar. "We're having more encounters because we're moving into their territory," says Lynn Sadler, executive director of the Mountain Lion Foundation, a national pro-cougar lobbying group based in Sacramento, Calif. "We are not only reducing the size of their available range but fragmenting it." She recalls a recent incident in Roseville, Calif., where a lion walked right through a brand-new apartment complex. The site straddled a natural pathway that lions used to travel between neighboring ranges. "There was probably a female in heat in the next...
...course, not every lion sighting is for real. Sometimes people report golden retrievers, big house cats and other similar-size animals as cougars. But Paul Beier, a biologist at Northern Arizona University, believes the recent confrontations between lions and man aren't just flukes. "The attacks aren't likely to go down," he says. "We're not making more land...
...progress made in the decades to follow did not completely wipe out such differences between the genders. When the U.S. invades a tiny country, for instance, women are still more likely to dwell on the disparity in size. Men understand that, regardless of the size of the opponent, combat is combat: you detonate large bombs; you win medals; you could get killed. In that summer house, the men understood that regardless of the origin of the game, you still have to analyze the plays. You still have to keep statistics. You still have to play to win. You still have...