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Music on the internet.
Have Apple got it right?

Apple's new iTunes online music store is already a big success. More than two million songs have been downloaded in its first 16 days.

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(Article: © BBC,
Dictionary: © Cambridge Learner's Dictionary)
Spam comes under attack in British courts

Microsoft has taken the important step of starting two legal actions in Britain against senders of junk email as part of an attempt to stop the spam problem everywhere in the world.

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(Article: © Media Guardian,
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Last VW Beetle leaves factory

The Volkswagen plant in Puebla, 65 miles southeast of Mexico City, was the last to produce the car.

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(Article: © Ananova,
Dictionary: © Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary)




Adapted by Chris Fry, May, July, August 2003 from articles from the BBC, the Guardian, Ananova