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Comix' greatest bargain, "SPX 2002" gets you over 300 pages of engrossing comix for only ten bucks. If that doesn't make you feel good, the money you spend goes to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, a non-profit organization with the superheroic mission of defending the First Amendment rights of commix artists. Published in conjunction with the recent Small Press Expo (see TIME.comix coverage), "SPX 2002" has nearly fifty comix artists (most of them unknown) working in a short biographical format. Subjects run wildly from the man in the Godzilla suit to ethnobotonist Richard Evans Schultes...
...Donald H. Rumsfeld has tried to salvage the failure by calling on Congress to give the go-ahead for war regardless of any U.N. resolutions. Without immediate action, Bush will lose the use of the Iraqi invasion as a political weapon in the midterm elections. Bush’s bargain for any semblance of an open-ended U.N. resolution fails now that Iraq, it seems, has audaciously acquiesced...
Leading a pack of bargain hunters and curious passersby on a tour through the bowels of Kirkland, Eddleston peddled oak coat racks, metal tables and muck-marked rugs students had donated for the auction...
...lunar atmosphere, for example, would add thousands of years to the life of data storage. And who knows? With earth-bound economic institutions in turmoil, even if we mess this planet up maybe someday we can still find an IKEA on the moon. THE BOURSE Bear market bargain Hamleys, the British toy-retailing institution, used the economic downturn to go bargain shopping, buying defunct English Teddy Bear Co. for $1.1 million. Disastrous Insurance Europe's ailing insurance industry claimed a few more casualties. Top executives at Italy's Assicurazioni Generali and Britain's Royal & Sun Alliance stepped down, and Sweden...
...cities have become shrouded in gray clouds of dust: it's cheap to pollute. Millions of Chinese drive mopeds and old automobiles that don't have catalytic converters, and much of the nation's electricity comes from coal-fired power plants. Technology from the 1950s, after all, is at bargain-basement prices. But that's because the prices don't reflect the hidden costs of air pollution: deaths from lung illnesses and millions of dollars wasted on health-care bills and lost worker productivity. The situation is the same the world over. The price of goods and services rarely reflects...