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...launching these days. With more families and seniors forgoing cruises, Celebrity was smart to give its Solstice a more contemporary design for younger travelers, including a special bar for vodka-and-caviar tastings. That Russian delicacy might be out of synch with the economic times - but at fares this cheap, nostrovya...
...Tata Motor's strategy was to push further into international markets by attacking the potentially vast, low-budget car market in the developing world. That effort was to be led with innovative models like the Nano. Through numerous innovative manufacturing strategies - and cheap Indian labor - the Nano was supposed to debut last year with a sticker price of about $2,500. Meanwhile, the company was dipping its toes into the luxury segment through the acquisition of struggling...
...Cheap Latin Flair. Lan Airlines, a Oneworld partner, is offering low fares to South America. If you've always wanted to climb to Machu Picchu, you can now fly to Peru from Miami for as little as $298 round-trip. For a more urbane getaway, fly from Los Angeles to Chile ($749 round-trip) to sample some Malbec vintages, or head to Argentina from New York City ($599 round-trip) to perfect your tango. Purchase tickets before Feb. 28 for travel before June...
...Cheap Seats. You don't have to trawl the Great White Way for good theater. Take in an off-Broadway show (also useful for impressing a first date or a client, on a budget) with two-for-one tickets to off-Broadway shows - see Cynthia Nixon in Distracted or Kathleen Turner in The Third Story - during the last two weeks of Feb. Check out the On the House deal here...
...definition of capitalism is somewhat unorthodox: the system that allows poorer people to have the comforts only rich people once had. In the not-so-distant future, parents will be able to buy their children an education produced under the same competitive stresses that gave us cheap LCD televisions, the iPhone, Lipitor, and Phillips Exeter Academy. Block-heads paint the public schools as a sacred cow, vouchers as undemocratic, and unionized public school teachers as modern heroes. Were trains so holy that today there are no planes? Was cotton so consecrated that we lack polyester? Likewise, the monopoly local middle...