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Fortune: Fans help rock stars write music

One of the bright spots in the troubled record industry has been licensing songs to videogames like "Guitar Hero" that enable users to play along with the classics. Now music-networking sites are looking to jump on the trend by letting fans contribute to rock stars' albums.

People.com: Edward Kennedy's Life & Public Service Commemorated

President Obama called him "The Big Cheese," while his son recalled his loving embrace

Will China have DNA prodigies?

For years, doctors and patients have been using DNA analysis to diagnose anything from paternity to predisposition to inherited disease. Now, Chinese scientists say genetic testing can identify inherent "talents" as well.

Commentary: For Obama's poet, poetry 'is the human voice'

When Barack Obama is sworn in as president January 20, there will be music -- by, among others, Aretha Franklin, Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman and the U.S. Marine Band. There will be prayers and speeches -- including Obama's inaugural address. And for the fourth time in the nation's 56 inauguration ceremonies, there will be poetry -- by someone far less well-known.

Every day is a holiday for Yo-Yo Ma

When Yo-Yo Ma enters a room, everything changes.

People.com: George Clooney to U.N.: Can You Hear Me Now?

When George Clooney was nearly kept by the assembled countries from delivering his message on Darfur Thursday, the United Nations' recently appointed messenger of peace chose a more receptive audience: the press.

People.com: George Clooney Appointed U.N. Messenger of Peace

George Clooney had gotten a lot of honors over career – from an Oscar to the title PEOPLE's Sexiest Man Alive – but now he is being honored for his humanitarian work.

People.com: 30th Annual Kennedy Center Honorees Sparkle

This year's recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors, which were handed out in a glittering ceremony last night in the nation's capitol, is quite the list of luminaries. Making up the talented quintet are: Beach Boy Brian Wilson, Academy award-winning director Martin Scorsese, singer supreme Diana Ross, actor-comedian Steve Martin and pianist-conductor Leon Fleisher, whose story of losing the use of his right hand was told in the 2007 Academy Award-nominated short subject documentary, "Two Hands."

Violinist Bell wins $75,000 Fisher Prize

However up and down the temperatures may be, it's springtime for violinist Joshua Bell.

Fortune: A kinder, gentler Lehman Brothers

As a managing director in charge of software-equity research at CIBC, Melissa Eisenstat worked 70-hour weeks, spent 70 percent of her time on the road, and, she recalls, "when Bill Gates sneezed, I...

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