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PAUL HACKETT, Iraq veteran and Democrat who lost a House seat by only 3,573 votes in a heavily Republican district in Ohio, in a special election viewed by both parties as a prelude to the 2006 midterm elections...
...every weight-loss veteran knows -- and too many parents of overweight kids are learning--the most fattening foods are often the most comforting, conjuring up memories of sweet treats and celebrations. That's why there was so much interest last week in a report out of the University of California, Irvine that suggests a new approach to thinking about food: brainwashing...
...sells songs, Snocap is really a digital middleman, monitoring audio files as they are downloaded over music services that use Snocap's system. Its main tool is a registry that stores music and acts as a global clearinghouse to identify tracks. Snocap is working with Mashboxx, headed by another veteran of the file-sharing wars, former Grokster president and outspoken recording industry critic Wayne Rosso; his company offers users legal file-sharing software. When a music fan locates a song on another computer in the network, Snocap checks to see if it is registered in its database...
Four Tet's electronic maestro Kieran Hebden loops and layers a series of joyous chirps and cymbal crashes until an honest-to-goodness tune emerges, then he moves it around with the dexterity of a veteran shell gamer...
...Other journalists at the Herald have pointed out that at least one other reporter surreptitiously taped but didn't get fired. ?This has happened before,? says one long-time veteran of the Herald newsroom. ?There's been no policy on this. The couple of instances that it has happened before it was between you and your editor. You get slapped on the hand and nobody needs to know about it.? Peter Wallsten, a former Miami Herald political correspondent who now reports on the White House for the Los Angeles Times has created a website for journalists to sign a petition...