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...Three years later, Gale's living room is still dominated by an old picture-tube clunker. He routinely stops in Best Buy and Circuit City stores to compare prices, but the model he craves, a 45-in. (114-cm) cutting-edge liquid-crystal display (LCD) TV, has a $7,000 price tag?twice what Gale is willing to spend. "These things are still prohibitively expensive," Gale laments...
...Sound familiar? While it seems as though hordes of couch potatoes are snapping up the latest displays, the wonders of LCD and plasma TV technology are still well out of reach for the average shopper. True, at U.S. retailer Circuit City, sales of flat-TV models have tripled over the past year, prompting CEO W. Alan McCollough to label this Christmas "a flat-panel holiday." But as long as the price tag on a flat-screen TV is four or more times as much as a comparable tube TV, many consumers will drool and dream but not bite. "Prices...
...sits on the highly conservative Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va. Courtly and personable, Wilkinson, 60, is probably confirmable. But naming a white male to the bench wouldn't give Bush a historic first...
Appointed by the first President Bush in 1991, he serves with Wilkinson on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, but he is more independent and hard-line. One advantage: at age 50 he is a decade younger than his colleague...
...thrust so far into the limelight as to lose their private lives. And it’s not as though Death Cab, Ben Gibbard’s day job, has been a young upstart act anyway. These guys are old hands on the circuit, as close to an establishment as indie gets. (In fact, they just announced a new deal with Atlantic, so you can scratch the indie label entirely.) The Postal Service project was hyped from the outset and a prepackaged audience greeted the LP at its release. Some...