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...this spring, the PS3 is supposed to have better graphics and will support up to seven wireless game pads (Xbox 360 allows four). PS3's best advantage: it will play high-definition Blu-ray DVDs. But at an expected retail price of $400 to $500, it won't come cheap. TAPPING INTO THE POWER OF FUEL CELLS Could Medis Technologies turn the Energizer Bunny into roadkill? The company's disposable $19.99 fuel cell batteries will deliver up to 20 hours of cell-phone talk time. Optional adapters allow it to juice up iPods and PDAs as well...
...denies). Since then, despite what critics call Chávez's penchant for authoritarian rule, his popularity has risen--not only in Latin America but also in some parts of U.S. cities like Boston and New York, where the Venezuelan government--owned company Citgo is providing low-income residents with cheap heating oil this winter. Chávez has surpassed his good friend Fidel Castro as the anti-U.S. idol of the Latin American masses--and as a model for other populist leaders in the region, although few have his petroleum resources to use as a cudgel...
...head of M&A, sees no sign of a slowdown anytime soon. "The first half of 2006 has to be the best seller's market for a long time," he says. While companies spent the first half of this decade reducing debt and cleaning up their balance sheets, now cheap money - thanks to low interest rates - has revived the M&A boom. The level of merger activity in Europe is still below the absolute peaks hit in 1999 and 2000, at the height of the Internet bubble, but it has been rising sharply in the past 18 months...
...bault Versailles, France The riots that exploded in the French suburbs are another proof, if needed, that French immigration policy is a total failure. Our demagogues have let thousands of African immigrants settle in our country without showing any concern for their integration. They were housed in huge, cheap unconnected buildings outside the main cities and offered no opportunity to work. The result? Thousands of uneducated people lived in isolation in indecent conditions. Those housing projects turned into lawless cities in which gangs ruled by threat, violence and blackmail. The police, much less firefighters, doctors and nurses, did not dare...
...them, just ask if they are paying $40,000 a year. President Bush is going to let in as many illegals as he can for two reasons: the people who compete with illegals for jobs and wages don't vote Republican, and Bush's friends in business love cheap labor. JOHN MUSTOE Savannah...