Online music stores reshape how we buy songs
A nostalgic look at CDNow Amazon and Blockbuster shifting from brick and mortar to online retailers. The piece notes easy previews, user reviews, and lower per song costs with MP3 downloads and Napster legal battles, predicting future custom CD design online. It discusses formats Real Audio MPEG AU and compatibility with browsers, and warns about piracy and copyright lawsuits including Metallica and Dr Dre.
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Clannad
Amazon
Cdnow
Blockbuster
Blockbuster.com
Real.com
Sions
Netscape
Internet Explorer
Napster
Metallica
Dr. Dre
Rain lifts Texas High Plains cotton hopes as plantings press on
Rainfall across the Texas High Plains aids irrigated and dryland cotton growers in early June. Many acres already dry planted before June planting dates, with 3.75 to 4 million acres expected to be planted. Programs cover cottonseed assistance payments to gins, new cottonseed futures contracts, and boll weevil monitoring guidance. Details include application deadlines and contacts for gin participation and resources for pest management.
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Shawn Wade
Texas High Plains
High Plains
U.S
USDA
Farm Service Agency
Gene Rosera
Minneapolis Grain Exchange
DTN
Roger Haldenby
IPM
Brant Baugh
Lubbock
Phillip Kidd
Crosby- Floyd
Kerry Siders
Cochran-Hockley
PCG
Plainscotton.org
Letter to the Editor Urges parents to curb teens wandering streets
A reader criticizes teens walking in street without sidewalks since school let out, risking traffic as drivers struggle to see them at night. The letter calls for parental guidance, discipline, and respect, warning of possible pedestrian-vehicle injuries. Nickie Smith expresses anger and fears for future harm.
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Nickie Smith
Ceremonies of Possession in Early Texas Land Titles
Talk of Texas surveys land grants from 1519 to 1836 under Spanish or Mexican rule. New owners performed rituals before taking title, including weeds, markers, water rites, and improvements to defend property. Public land only. petitions by military, royalty, or church were denied. Texas rail routes linked El Paso to Mexico and restoration costs loom for historic courthouses. St Pauls Hospital opened in 1898 with dollar-a-day care.
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Jack Maguire
Texas
Spain
Mexico
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