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  • The image of a potential moviegoer downloading full-length movies from the Internet and burning them to a DVD is one that gives many Hollywood studio chiefs fits. But for executives in the adult-movie industry, the process is the key to a new business model.
  • KT Tunstall is a one-woman band, literally. She plays and sings the multiple parts of her songs while using a machine to loop them in real time, making for a performance style that lends her songs an extra rawness.
  • Thousands have ordered Acu-Gen's Baby Gender Mentor, which claims to give conclusive proof of the sex of a fetus earlier than a sonogram. But some mothers and scientists say the small biotech company can't deliver on its promises.
  • In 2005, Nashville singer and songwriter Darrell Scott inspired his father to record his own album of original songs. The elder Scott was 71 when his debut album, This Weary Way, was released.
  • Washington Post film critic Stephen Hunter's novel Point of Impact has been made into Shooter, a film starring Mark Wahlberg. Hunter talks about what it's like to endure reviews.
  • Singer Mari Anne Jayme and trumpeters Marlon Winder and Matt White are among a group of promising young musicians invited to Betty Carter's Jazz Ahead program at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Started by the late jazz singer in 1993, the annual event offers workshops and coaching for emerging artists. NPR's Cheryl Corley reports.
  • We think of television as entertainment, delivering programs to us. The TV business, however, is about delivering us to advertisers. As the Internet becomes increasingly intertwined with TV, viewer engagement is ever more crucial.
  • Homemade political ads submitted to a MoveOn.org contest compared President Bush to Adolph Hitler. The liberal group removed the ads from its site. Now the Bush-Cheney campaign is citing them in its own commercial in which it tries to portray supporters of John Kerry as the "Coalition of the Wild-Eyed." NPR's Ari Shapiro reports.
  • Lynn Neary muses on the dilemma facing parents now that fresh spinach has been taken off the shelves. After all, Neary says, spinach was never an easy sell to kids.
  • A South Coast university student is using artificial intelligence to develop an app to help people determine whether they have a deadly skin…
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