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...defected from the main house to live in Jordans J and K for a year. We enjoyed our own floor of enormous singles (I had a queen size bed and a couch in my room), and the Masters McCarthy were kind enough to provide a common room in the basement of Jordan...
...patients in Dresden's hospitals, including a day-old, 1-lb. 8-oz. baby, had to be evacuated by car and helicopter. With the Elbe River rising to its highest level in history, rescuers worked frantically to move thousands of paintings, including Raphael's Sistine Madonna, from the flooded basement of the baroque Zwinger Palace...
Lindows, launched by dotcom veteran Michael Robertson with the millions he made selling MP3.com has a few more problems. The bargain-basement $299 Microtel PC comes without a monitor, which will cost you $128 more. If you have a PC, you can pay $99 to download Lindows (at lindows.com) If you have Windows 95 or 98, you can choose to install Lindows without wiping out your original operating system. But here's the catch: Lindows comes into the world pretty much naked. You must download most of the software you'll need through a program called Click...
...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 environmental...
...exchange, he offers reduced rent. His previous housemate, Maureen Salazar, 54, is a single woman who three years ago decided to leave the corporate world to pursue life as an artist. "I had to cut my living expenses," she says, "and what Mike offered, in addition to his whole basement for my studio, was rent that was $350 less than what I had been paying." Salazar was able to save enough money to move into her own place...