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...Browsing the top shopping sites visited by Internet users in the lowest income groups include sites that trade in exotic cars, expensive apparel brands and high-end electronics. Perhaps these searches are aspirational. But what about what is considered by most to be a necessity today - a simple, basic cell phone...
...site that appears on the list is the Apple iPhone site. The iPhone, an amazing device in its own right, is also one of the most expensive cell phones on the market; its 8GB model topped the scales at $599 when the iPhone was released in June. Yet as of last week, the income segment with the highest percentage of visitors to the iPhone site was 18 to 24 years of age, earning less than $30,000 per year. Could Steve Jobs have been aware of that when he lowered the price of the 8GB iPhone to $399 on Wednesday...
...ethics "swamp" and end partisan arm wrestling. But accomplishing all that is tricky when the opposition party still controls the White House. So far this year, President George W. Bush has vetoed war-funding legislation that included a timeline for withdrawing troops from Iraq and federal funding for stem-cell research--and he has issued veto threats for 77 other bills...
Hoping to duplicate the electoral success of the Contract with America, Democrats ran on a platform of "Six for '06." As of late summer, two of the items--9/11 reforms and an increase in the minimum wage--had become law, while Bush had vetoed funding for stem-cell research. Proposals to reduce subsidies for oil companies and expand Pell grants remain tied up in conference committees; a bill to fix Medicare's prescription-drug problem has stalled in the Senate. Still, the GOP passed only two of the 11 Contract with America items in its first year back...
...honor the convention. "Regardless of what France calls him," says Vagts, "under the Geneva Convention, we are responsible to take POWs home. If I were the French, to avoid difficulty, I would let the Red Cross visit him and if he wants to sit in [a French] cell in his Panamanian uniform, I'd let him." The option of wearing his khaki uniform with the stars on the epaulets is but one of the privileges afforded Noriega as a prisoner of war. At present, Noriega resides in a special cell in the Federal Correctional Institute in Miami. His POW status...