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...TARGET Philippe Starck, who has been on a crusade to keep design cheap, created several baby items for Target that will hit the store in late May. The toilet trainer-potty step stool is $17 and the toy car is $30. Also available: a wearable baby monitor for moms and a sippy cup that looks like a wine goblet...
...LUXURY Even in the low-budget haven that is Southeast Asia, grimy Siem Reap is exceptional in its appeal to backpackers: it's easy to live on the cheap as you explore Angkor Wat. Yet within a five-minute walk from an unpaved alley of $2-a-room guesthouses, the elaborate Grand Hotel d'Angkor offers its top digs for?are you sitting down??$1,900 a night. The hotel has two 400-sq-m villas that come with everything a Hollywood star or head of state might want: two bedrooms with marble bathrooms, linens of Khmer silk...
...little more than three years, Ji, 50, and Hsu, 41, founders of Apex Digital in Ontario, Calif., have sold enough cheap DVD players in North America to steal a 14% share of that market. The firm has machines assembled for a pittance in China and sells them in the U.S. at such bargain stores as Wal-Mart. Now Apex is targeting TVs. It will have 18 models out by June. Not bad for a pair who began by peddling scrap metal to China...
...Mongolian nomads, and the basic structural elements haven't changed much since then. A yurt has a circular lattice wall topped by a round roof that comes to an adorable little point. The simple design belies its many virtues: yurts are tough as a yak, easy to build and cheap to heat. They're also eco-friendly: there's not much in them besides wood and cloth, and they sit lightly on the ground, no foundation required, so their impact on the environment is minimal...
...some point, consumers will realize that their spending subsidizes those who pollute the water, and at some point they will realize that wasting cheap gasoline carries with it costs in the form of respiratory illness, the threat of climate chaos, and pathetic deference to authoritarian and anti-American regimes in the Middle East. When these pennies eventually drop, some consumers may think, "gee, maybe I'll buy a Honda" (Honda was the sole auto company to support an increase in fuel efficiency). If just a tiny percent of consumers decide to choose brands that are friends of the earth, that...