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...says he'll take what he can get in a tough economy. "If you have a little less kuai in your pocket," he says, using the colloquial word for Chinese currency, "folks look for where do I save that one kuai. Instead of drinking nothing, I can handle that cheaper one. It's just giving them an option...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coke's Recession Boomlet | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

...imminent threat that a nuclear Iran poses, which come mainly from low- to medium-range missiles. Intelligence has reported that Iranians have developed missiles with empty spaces in them that can hold nuclear devices. This new system can protect Israel and Eastern Europe from such Iranian missiles in a cheaper and more efficient manner...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Putting Misguided Missiles Back on Track | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

...cheaper than that, but it comes with a catch. Terraces behind each end zone have been set aside as standing room for $29 a head. The Cowboys call those tickets "party passes," because standees get to mill around, chug beer and do their own sack dances if that's what they're in the mood for - they're the sports-world equivalent of free-range chickens. But knowing that the most affordable tickets don't actually get you a seat does nothing to discourage the suspicion that even fewer than that 7% of all fans will be able...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the New Dallas Cowboys Stadium | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

Conventional wisdom says that if you want to be richer, a useful thing to do is get married. Life is cheaper when there's only one mortgage to pay and someone else can do certain tasks - cooking, say, or car repair - more efficiently than you. Research by Ohio State University's Jay Zagorsky shows that married baby boomers increase their wealth an average 16% a year, while those who are single increase their net worth at half that rate. (Read "Is There Hope for the American Marriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economic Benefits of Marriage: A Closing Gap | 9/19/2009 | See Source »

...ships can sail freely in international waters to meet evolving threats without obtaining consent from host countries (the Czech parliament, for example, had yet to approve the deployment of the now canceled system). What's more, they can perform missions other than missile defense, and they are considerably cheaper. "This system gives us a much more significant and robust capability to adapt to the threat as it actually emerges," Marine General James Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Thursday, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scrapping the Missile Shield: Militarily Sound | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

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