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...free journalism is Internet service providers. They get to charge customers $20 to $30 a month for access to the Web's trove of free content and services. As a result, it is not in their interest to facilitate easy ways for media creators to charge for their content. Thus we have a world in which phone companies have accustomed kids to paying up to 20 cents when they send a text message but it seems technologically and psychologically impossible to get people to pay 10 cents for a magazine, newspaper or newscast...
...Barack Obama to sainthood. That he is the first African-American (50%) President is a great historic achievement [Jan. 26]. But beside this, could TIME enlighten readers as to his outstanding legislative achievements in Illinois or the Senate, or the executive experience that qualifies him for the presidency and thus to be some sort of reincarnation of Lincoln? To be an oratorical superstar does not make him a savior. Let's talk about his real record a year from now. Charles G. Kormendy, FRANKFURT, GERMANY...
...argues that the mondo prizes will draw new fans to fishing and thus are a long-term investment in the health of the sport. The strategy might just work. Why wouldn't fans spend hours watching a guy fish if they knew they could catch a cool million...
...Spiegelman said that the troubled economic climate is forcing the University to analyze all capital projects, and that it is unlikely that the University will file an updated IMP as planned in early 2009.Harvard broke ground on the science complex—its only Allston expansion initiative approved thus far—in 2008, following a cooperation agreement with the City of Boston to provide $25 million in community benefits. But the University is now considering alternate locations to house its stem cell research department, previously touted as a cornerstone of this new science center.The possibility that the building...
...that, it is probably more important to watch what happens with the second job that Daschle had been slated to hold - that of head of a new White House Office of Health Reform. Thus far, Administration officials have not been willing to say if that White House job will even exist in the wake of Daschle's decision to end his bid for Health Secretary amid reports that he had failed to pay $128,000 of income taxes on time. But that White House office was where Daschle's expertise and clout would have mattered the most. While his former...