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...business in the past 18 months because, in a highly competitive industry, they've been unable to raise prices to compensate for higher production costs?the price of polypropylene has soared from $800 per ton last year to $1,200 per ton today. "Consumers expect plastics to be cheap," says Jung, whose own raw-material costs have increased by 50% in the past year without him increasing prices. "Now I lose money on every plastic container I make. Maybe it's about time I retire...
...Katamari (coming Sept. 7 for PlayStation 2), doesn't mess with success. You're still a prince, still rolling up stuff into stars, but now it's, like, different stuff. There's a snow level, a classroom level and--ooooh--an underwater level. Like the original, it will be cheap ($29.99), charming and nicely nonviolent. And it will still make no sense whatsoever. --By Lev Grossman...
...onto a dvd or share it online. At streamload.com you can also store videos - no need to buy an extra hard drive for your video library - and easily e-mail them to family members and friends. The basic service is free, or $100 annually for heavy usage. Short Takes Cheap And Compact At less than half a kilogram, the JVC GR-D250 is 30% smaller than previous models. It has a handy digital battery monitor and is just $300 The Magic Button On top of its Super NightShot feature for low light, Sony's DCR-HC32 (about...
...Choisir (roughly, "what to choose") blasted the wasteful use of water for irrigation, pointing out that some of the areas in southern France worst affected by the drought have seen a big increase in the cultivation of maize, a particularly water-intensive crop. The group also criticized the cheap water rates paid by farmers in some of the worst affected areas. "It's a striking paradox: the greater the risk of drought, the lower the taxes on irrigation," the group said. Farmers reject the criticism, but the crisis could lead to a review of water-allocation policies in the four...
That squalor did not come cheap. The set alone, at Rome's Cinecittà studio lot, cost $13 million and the 12-episode first season, $100 million. Shooting began in March 2004 but was delayed as HBO shuffled producers and reshot chunks of the first three episodes (directed by filmmaker Michael Apted). It also had the largely British cast drop the regional accents they had used to distinguish the classes, deeming them too inscrutable for Americans...