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E--" pn tfii 2003 PROUDLY SERVING ST. LOUIS FOR 125 YEARS $1.25 nw rrv (Fa oTAnfT" Downloaded may face the music Internet piracy has cost record companies billions, in a big way. The Recording Industry Association of America has is Music sales plunge Shipments of all recorded music dropped 26 percent from 1999 to 2002. Sales of music CDs have fallen 14 percent since their 2000 peak. ANNUAL COMPACT DISC SHIPMENTS IN MILLIONS 1,000 industry officials say, and they are cracking down on the worst offenders.

Bui some file sharers seem more determined than ever to find free outlets for music. sued thousands of subpoenas to Internet service providers trying to find out who is downloading and sharing music over the Internet. It hauled four students from three different colleges into court for running file sharing networks at their schools, winning settlements of up to $17,500. The RIAA plans thousands of lawsuits against individual users in a sweeping effort to end what they term rampant violations of copyright law. See Music, A7 no s- 600 2002: 803 400 Million 200 1 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i 1984 '88 '32 '96 2000 from the Internet using software similar to the now-defunct Napster.

That means Marchesini didn't pay a penny for many of his tunes. He once claimed to have the largest digital music library in St. Louis, but these days Marchesini is a little shy about saying how many songs and albums he's gotten off the Net. His caution comes with good reason. The recording industry is going after downloaders like Marchesini By Daniel P.

Finney Of the Post-Dispatch John Marchesini loves music. He owns hundreds of albums and thousands of songs in his voluminous CD collection. He's just the kind of guy the recording industry hates. Marchesini, an information technology professional from St. Louis, downloaded a big chunk of his music Boys lose ground to girls in race to finish college The question is why.

Higher-paying trade jobs lead some boys to skip college, experts suggest, and the changing job picture has erased some traditionally male work. By Susan C. Thomson Of the Post-Dispatch The slide of male students to the rear of the college class went largely unnoticed over the past two decades, amid concern about the educational needs of women. Only recently have researchers, authors and teachers begun to sound the alarm about what some see as a social time bomb in the making. Many say boys' second-class graduation rate 42 percent now is the end result of educational neglect.

Questions such as why boys are falling behind in school and what can be done to bring them up to girls' speed are taking on urgency. As education researcher Thomas G. Mortensen reads the college graduation statistics, men are in crisis. "A growing share of men just aren't making it," he said. "Women have won the war in education," says Mortensen, who has been drawing attention to this "gender gap" in higher education since the mid-1990s.

"It's over with." See Boys, A4 Link to a number of music download sites at STLtoday.commusic. Source: Recording Industry Association of America KRT Al Kerth Chapter I He was one of St. Louis' most influential men, yet Al Kerth struggled with manic depression. Looking back nearly a year after his suicide, symptoms of his illness are there even in his many successes. Corps' new plan doesn't alter flow of river Girls leading in graduations Girls are taking the lead in finishing high school and earning college degrees.

A look at the breakdown of high school and college graduates: BOYS GIRLS 49 After a dropout rate of 12.2 for boys and 9.3 for girls, the high school graduating class shrinks to 89.75. Those who graduated: Of the high school graduates, 62 enroll in a two- or four-year college. Of the 62, those who enrolled: 48 52, Agency says wildlife can be protected without controversial changes Of those enrolled, 59 received their 42 bachelor's degrees within six years. 58 Of the 59, those who received degrees: Source: U.S. Department of Education POST-DISPATCH i in -r i ii iii in A WAYNE CROSSLIN POST-DISPATCH Al Kerth answers reporters' questions after a news conference in January 1995 explaining the Personal Seat License plan to help finance a new football stadium.

ublic man. ELECTION 2004 PRESIDEfsT Sen. Edwards pitches "real solutions" in his populist message By Jon Sawyer Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau Chief BERLIN, N.H. Can a millionaire trial lawyer who owns a Georgetown mansion run for the White House as the voice of "real" Americans? John Edwards, the 50-year-old freshman senator private struggle By Bill Lambrecht Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau WASHINGTON The Army Corps of Engineers is proposing a new Missouri River management plan that it says will protect wildlife without controversial changes in the river's flow. Under court order to lower water this summer for endangered species, the corps has drafted a long-term plan that relies on restoring wildlife habitat by means other than dramatic fluctuations in the river's depth.

Among the proposals: Widening the river wherever possible. Reconnecting the river with its flood plain. Cutting holes in dikes from Nebraska to St. Louis in order to improve areas for fish. Missouri officials are pleased by the absence of wildlife-related flow changes, which they say threaten water supplies and navigation.

But they are worried about other parts of the plan that would hold water upstream during persistent drought and cut as much as a month from the barge-navigation season. After learning of the plan last week, Missouri officials complained to the corps. But the Missourians worry that it is too late to make changes because the plan appears to be on a fast track. The corps embodied the plan in a "biological assessment" of the river, which was forwarded to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on July 30.

The service has until the end of this month to pass judgment on the corps plan, which ultimately would become the basis for the long-disputed master manual for Missouri River operations. The Fish and Wildlife Service has been at odds with the corps for more than a decade on Missouri River is-See River, All By Richard H. Weiss of the Post-Dispatch from North Carolina, is testing that proposition on the back roads of New Hampshire, Iowa and South Carolina, the key states where caucuses and primaries early next year will begin the process of choosing which Democrat will take on President George W. Bush. "I'm going to be myself," Edwards says, brashly confident that when voters get to know him they'll like what they see: The son of a textile mill worker.

The first in his family to get to college or law school. A A as the Rams moving to St. Louis, he was the linchpin; for the 2004 effort, the instigator. Alfred H. Kerth III came from a storied St Louis family.

His great-grandfather, Henry Kerth, was a farmer who moved to town in the early 1900s to run Farmers' State Bank in the Chesterfield area. His grandfather, the first Alfred Kerth, is considered the father of modern Clayton and was its mayor in the middle of the last century. His dad, Al Kerth II, graduated from West Point and ran the bank in Chesterfield. And Al Kerth III, for many years, was the See Kerth, A10 Steve StogeFs best friend committed suicide last Sept. 11.

His name was Al Kerth. He was your friend, too, if you root for the Blues or the Rams, if you've taken pleasure in the restoration of Forest Park, if you've enjoyed moments of quiet reflection in a city library, if you can envision the region becoming a center for life sciences, if you feel compassionate toward people who are battling cancer, if you look forward to a grand civic celebration next year. Kerth was associated with all these civic efforts and more. In some instances, such Edwards Millionaire trial lawyer self-styled Washington "outsider" who spent two decades as a personal-injury trial lawyer "fighting for the interests of regular folks." See Edwards, A4 WEATHER One more for the road Sunday Mostly WHWMItW'J FOREVER YOUNG A journey through the past with the constantly sunny. High 84.

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