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Radio's got a problem. Although some 200 million people tune in each week to hear their favorite overcaffeinated DJ or catch those crucial rush-hour traffic updates, it's getting tougher to hold listeners' attention. Facing flat revenues and competition ranging from iPods to music phones, the 87-year-old industry is scrambling to reinvent itself. But not even satellite radio or the new HD format addresses this analog medium's fundamental flaw: it doesn't give people any say in which songs they hear. If you don't like a track or a DJ, your only option...
...Omar threw stones at Israeli tanks and ran away; youngsters of the new generation seek to annihilate themselves as well as their Israeli enemy. In his butcher shop, Omar points outside to a boy brandishing an exact plastic replica of an M-16 assault rifle. "Children today, they're tougher, more aggressive than we are. They have less to believe in, fewer opportunities," he says. Raja Shehadeh, a Palestinian writer and lawyer in Ramallah, later told me, "I'm reminded of that saying 'When you lose a nation, you resort to your church.' That's what's happening to young...
...Even tougher is the one perplexing area in which the fight against global warming conflicts with the U.S.'s goal of greater energy independence: coal. "The U.S. is the Saudi Arabia of coal," Dingell recently declared. We have seemingly endless tons of the stuff, which can be converted into liquid fuel for cars. Coal boosters are pushing legislation through Congress to subsidize the use of coal instead of oil. The only problem: coal is the dirtiest source of greenhouse gases. Representative Rick Boucher, from Virginia's mining country, chairs the subcommittee on energy, but coal's influence goes further than...
...immigrants, what will happen to the economy? -Charles Horton, BEIJINGYou can get a lot of interesting data on each side of this. What does seem to happen is that when there's a reduction in low-wage workers, companies tend to develop technologies to compensate. Tomato farmers genetically engineered tougher skins so tomatoes could be picked by machine, for example. And citrus growers are starting to do the same things...
...aware of the issue--especially when it comes to ticket prices, because I come from a country with a lot of poor people. Of course, I wish everybody had the opportunity to go see games, especially with their children. But some teams' high payroll makes it a little bit tougher for them to have low ticket prices or to make it easier for people to take their family to the baseball field...