Jeff Taylor from the March 2006 issue
French Revolution
Members of the French National Assembly reverse the Culture Ministry's attempt to outlaw sharing music and movies online. Instead, they back a monthly royalty scheme of about $8.50 a month for file swapping.
Veteran Drinkers
State Rep. Jim Splaine (D-Portsmouth) wants to lower New Hampshire's drinking age for military personnel to 18. Splaine figures that if they can handle a weapon, they can handle a beer.
iEconomy
Mobile electronic gadgets fuel a tech boom from Korea to California to Switzerland. NAND flash-memory chips were a $10 billion market in 2005 and will hit $18 billion worldwide by 2008, the IT research firm Gartner Inc. estimates.
Speech Insurance
Officials in Polk County, Florida, eliminate a rule requiring anyone who wants to set up a display--often holiday-themed--outside county government offices to purchase a $500,000 liability insurance policy.
Download Defense
Patricia Santangelo, a single mom in Wappingers Falls, New York, refuses to fold when the recording industry charges that she is a music pirate. A federal judge notes the 43-year-old is "an Internet-illiterate parent, who does not know Kazaa from kazoo, and who can barely retrieve her e-mail."
Beating Diabetes
Researchers at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute find a genetic link between a high-fat diet and the onset of type 2 diabetes. A single gene in a key enzyme seems to disrupt insulin production, which suggests using that enzyme to develop a treatment for the disease.
Tech War
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