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Companies from Amazon to Microsoft are mulling plans to enter the business. The reason: Jupiter Research estimates that revenue from online music will zoom from $80 million this year to $1.5 billion in 2008. That's just a sliver of today's $12 billion CD market, but it's a real business...
...last several years, students applying to Harvard’s non-binding early action program have been able to simultaneously apply to other universities under similar non-binding programs. But now, in what can only seem a petty move to lessen paperwork and ratchet up admissions yield by a sliver of a percent, Harvard will not allow its early-action applicants to apply elsewhere on the early schedule. While not entirely destroying the immense benefits of a non-binding early admissions program, Harvard is acting entirely counter to its spirit of flexibility and choice...
What distinguishes the Reverend from the rest, though, is what brought him back four years ago. He is a slim priest with enthusiastic eyebrows and a cool sliver of a smile, and he is no longer here simply to study...
...both the vehicle and a victim of a suicide bombing in Northern Iraq, today - an attack that served as a reminder that there are no rules in the campaign by the Qaeda-linked Ansar al-Islam against the local Kurdish authorities. The fight for control of a tiny sliver of northern Iraq pitches fighters loyal to the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, which rules the eastern part of the territory liberated from Saddam Hussein in 1991, against Ansar, a small cadre of homegrown Islamic militants supported, trained and reinforced by Osama bin Laden's organization. And today, as a Bush administration...
...hard to gauge what these dramatic developments portend, for despite scientists' best efforts, Antarctica--the highest, dryest, coldest continent on the planet--remains a climatological cipher. For example, while it is clear that the Antarctic Peninsula--a thin sliver of land that juts above the Antarctic Circle--has been rapidly warming, the vast empty spaces of East Antarctica, repository of the greatest ice sheet on earth, appear to be doing the opposite. "Here we have a continent that is so important to our future," says earth scientist Peter Doran of the University of Illinois at Chicago...