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...cause trouble has become part of Washington?s playbook since a 1994 deal that dismantled Pyongyang?s weapons-grade nuclear energy program in exchange for substantial energy and food aid from Japan, South Korea and the U.S. "We may be buying them off, but that?s the cheapest thing we can do at the moment," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "Even if we were to send troops and threaten them, that would be unlikely to ease tensions. And the money does influence them." In these wacky post-Cold War times, it seems, one way for states short of funds...
...Because the country's costliest cup of coffee just got costlier. The company upped prices on everything from decaf lattes to frappuccinos by a dime--7% to 8%. Prices for beans won't change. Starbucks cites rising real estate and labor costs. But with coffee beans trading at their cheapest in two years, at just over $1 per lb., a $1.25 cup of joe may be a bit harder to swallow...
...this finding, the Undergraduate Council has proposed implementing an internet-based program that facilitates online book ordering. Such a program would have two components--first, students would be able to select the courses that they plan to take and have the program generate a report showing them the cheapest possible combination through which to order their textbooks online--including links to the booksellers, complete with pre-generated "shopping baskets" to speed up the ordering process. Second, the Undergraduate Council would establish "affiliations" with a variety of online booksellers that enable it to receive commissions of up to 15% on each...
REAL CHEAP PCS It doesn't seem that long ago that a good deal on a computer meant a new PC that sold for under a grand. Now the cheapest PC practically pays for itself. The $299 Webzter Jr. desktop from Microworkz Computer Corp. packs a surprisingly powerful punch with its 300-MHz Cyrix processor, 32 megabytes of memory and 3.2-gigabyte hard drive. Like every other sub-$1,000 PC, it comes without a monitor, but it does give you one year of free Internet service from Earthlink, a $240 value...
Blind submission to the doctrine of finding the cheapest oil possible has led, quite directly, to the auto industry's unfortunate adherence to the traditional internal combustion engine even in an era when major auto makers are making significant progress in higher efficiency automobiles...