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Luckily, at around that time, Optoma - a company that makes digital projectors - had just come out with the first high-definition projector to hit the market for less than $1,000. These things used to cost many thousands of dollars and were found in only the highest-end home theaters. But with the Optoma HD20 ($999) and subsequent offerings from competitors, the middle market can now afford super home-theater projection too. In fact, with all these pocket-size microprojectors flooding the lower end of the market, it's practically raining projectors these days...
...projector on a coffee table about 10 ft. from the screen and connected it to my laptop's DVD player. (This required adapter cables that cost about $50.) To round out my ad hoc system, I plugged into my laptop the portable PC speakers and subwoofer ($25 from Logitech) I use with my desktop computer and - voilà! - home theater...
...organizations. "If things continue as they are," says Stubbs, "by 2025, the U.S. will be 45,000 primary-care physicians short." That dearth of first-level preventive care will push even more U.S. patients to costlier secondary care like specialists and emergency rooms, which threatens to nullify any appreciable cost savings that Congress might pull out of its hat this fall. "If we fill the primary-care void," Stubbs estimates, "we could keep annual health-care cost increases to around 4% or less. If not, we'll stay at about 7% a year or more...
...China and Russia also still disagree on how to finance those unbuilt pipelines, which are likely to cost billions of dollars. (As a measure of how expensive these projects are, the BTC oil pipeline linking Azerbaijan's capital, Baku, through Tbilisi, Georgia, to Turkey's Caspian port of Ceyhan cost $4 billion to build in the early 2000s.) "Gazprom has been looking to get into the Chinese market for a considerable time, but the problem has always been over agreeing on the price," says Julian Lee, a senior energy analyst for the Center for Global Energy Studies in London. "There...
...told the Chronicle the information would cost $1,215 and the Chronicle subsequently filed a public records appeal to the Secretary of the Commonwealth...