Word: cheaping
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...fourth in the ratings, and it has started looking outside for help. Earlier this month, it made a production deal with HBO (owned by TIME's parent company, AOL Time Warner). The Monk "experiment," says ABC Entertainment president Susan Lyne, provides ABC with only slightly used programming on the cheap and benefits Disney, ABC's parent, which produces Monk. "Potentially," she says, "this is a great way of doing business." Monk's ABC debut drew more than 7 million viewers--pretty good for a summer rerun and huge by cable standards...
...Linux is still something of an acquired taste. You have to be wary of your peripherals (getting some older printers to work is quite a headache). And tech support can be hard to find in a Windows world. But what you get in return is a very fast, very cheap, crash-free system that can be installed on as many computers as you like. Pay attention to the penguin: he's going places...
There is a simple economic explanation for why many of China's cities 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...
What could be better for the environment than a cheap, simple way for farmers to double or triple their output while using fewer pesticides on less land? According to Rockefeller University environmental scientist Jesse Ausubel, if the world's average farmer achieved the yield of the average American maize grower, the planet could feed 10 billion people on just half the crop land in use today. Of course it's possible that some genetically modified foods may carry health risks to humans (although none have so far been proved in foods that have been brought to market...
...Legitimate massage therapists aren't doing this for sexual kicks. To call the four-handed massage the "menage a trois" of back rubs is innuendo that mistakenly links sex and massage. I hope your readers pay more attention to the educational aspects of your report than the leering cheap shots. TAMARA BRAITHWAITE Memphis, Tenn...