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Apple recently announced that by April, all music purchased on iTunes store will be DRM-free. Digital Rights Management (DRM) first came as a response to the colossal intellectual property theft using the ubiquitous internet. It is simply an amendment to media formats that sets the rules of who can
By Wael Eskandar
First published: 1/23/2009
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MP3 players are leading to more and more hearing problems in young people, with damage to the inner ear now registered in one in five 16 to 20-year-olds, German doctors warned on Tuesday.Hearing problems usually associated with old age are now being noticed in people as young as 20, the German assoc
By AFP
First published: 1/23/2009
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During my two weeks in Farafra oasis, this was a recurring conversation:“Who are you?We are group of international volunteersDo you get paid?It wouldn’t be volunteerism if we did. Egypt needs more people like you.” Volunteerism, a concept that has recently resurfaced despite it being rooted in
By Heba El-Sherif
First published: 1/23/2009
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A hint of hard times hit the Paris catwalks as men’s fashion week opened Thursday with designers going for the dark side, opting for austerity over extravagance.The exception among the first of 46 shows to run over four days was France’s Jean Paul Gaultier, the wild “bad boy” of fashion, who wowed t
By Claire Rosemberg
First published: 1/23/2009
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Take two of the world’s top men’s designers and ask what is special about their trade and the answer is “millimeters and microscopic detail”.Yet at the very high-end Paris couture houses of Hermes and Ungaro, neither Veronique Nichanian nor Franck Boclet would ever trade the nano craft of male sarto
By Claire Rosemberg
First published: 1/23/2009
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It is getting cool during the day and downright freezing at night. The Sinai mountains are at an altitude of over 2,400 m, with peaks covered with snow during the winter. Snow is good because it means water for the Bedouin gardens, but it also means less customers because nobody wants to spend a chi
By Bedouin Paths
First published: 1/23/2009
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