Word: cheaping
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...says, dog cells "are more similar to human stem cells." GS&C still wants to capture the Fido-cloning market, though, and company scientists are trying to reduce the inefficiencies. Even if they manage to clone a dog, says Ben Carlson, a company spokesman, it won't be cheap. "We're charging $32,000 for a cat," he says, "and it will be more for dogs...
China revalued its currency last week, allowing it to rise 2.1% against the U.S. dollar. No longer will the yuan exactly track the buck, as it has for nearly a decade--which has kept the yuan's value artificially low and made Chinese goods cheap in the U.S. Here's what it all means...
...China's currency had come to embody the industrialized world's fears of a hypercompetitive mainland staging a hostile takeover of global manufacturing. Led by the U.S., critics accused China of clinging to the dollar peg in order to keep the yuan artificially weak, making its exports extra cheap and fostering a worrisome trade gap with the U.S. that ballooned to a record $162 billion in 2004. Unless Beijing changed its currency policy, a trade war loomed. Still, Beijing wouldn't budge, leaving businessmen and investors across the globe guessing as to when this uneasy status quo might finally change...
Blending the coming-of-age trope with the dark-versus-evil one can introduce stunning problems like that. Unfortunately, it also makes it doubly easy for Rowling to lapse into cheap genre gimmicks...
...program to sell medical coverage directly to consumers. In 34 Southern California stores this month, Costco will begin selling individual and family health insurance to its executive members--those who pay a $100 annual fee. The policies, in partnership with PacifiCare Health Systems, a California-based insurer, aren't cheap: $1,500 to $3,000 a year for a single person or $3,000 to $6,000 for a family. Premiums will vary according to the individual (and coverage can be denied those with certain pre-existing conditions), but the giant retailer says its plans will cost from...