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This trend has Big Music running scared, at a speed that makes its fight against Napster look like a stroll through the easy-listening section of Sam Goody. Hilary Rosen, the tough-talking president of the Recording Industry Association of America (R.I.A.A.) who led the legal charge against Napster, feels almost nostalgic about 2000, when file sharing was the sole problem. After all, only 11% of Napster users ever transferred their stash of tunes onto a CD; the rest kept them on a computer. Since piracy has gone portable--and local--it is perceived as more of a threat...
...Take a stroll on the north side of Hollywood Blvd. At no. 6721, in front of Joe's Diner, across from the Ripley's Believe It Or Not emporium, stop to glance down at the pavement. There you will see three consecutive stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: for Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte and Oscar Micheaux. You recognize two of the names. The tan tantalizer Dandridge was the first black to be nominated for a Best Actress Oscar ("Carmen Jones," 1955); Belafonte was and is the cool, sexy actor-singer with a half-century's radiance. But Micheaux? Considering...
...except trees. But the Tourism Authority of Thailand envisions a 600-hectare-plus zone spanning the three countries, featuring resort towns, handicrafts, botanical gardens, a war museum, a Khmer cultural center and the piece de r?sistance?a golf course where playing 18 holes would add up to a stroll across three frontiers...
...stroll through the library’s stacks just outside her open door reveal books ranging from feminism to motherhood to widowhood. Here, like in most libraries, the Dewey Decimal system reigns supreme. Jewish women and Muslim women share a shelf in the section marked 296 to 297. Aviatrixes reside in 629.1, with an entire section devoted to books about Amelia Earhart. Just across the aisle, lesbians occupy the 306.76 section...
...afternoons are spent dipping in the pool, the only activity possible once the temperature reaches a scorching 45?C. But valuable sightseeing time is not wasted?from the deck chairs, guests can gaze up at the magnificent whitewashed silhouette of the 900-year-old Gawdawpalin Pagoda, or between dips stroll through the garden to visit a pair of 11th century temples, one of which houses a well-tended golden Buddha. It's a place to get away from it all, literally. "It would be easier to take tea with the Queen," says Voss, "than to get a phone call through...