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Rather than charging customers for plastic bags, Capers Community Market, a whole-food grocery store throughout greater Vancouver, has a wonderful policy. If you don't need a grocery bag, you are given a discount. You can either receive 5 cents off your purchases or direct your savings to local charities. What a great idea: shoppers can save the environment and support local groups at the same time. Joanne Wannan, VANCOUVER...
...Search term data provides more insight into where affluent users are looking for savings. Their searches (those containing "cheap," "discount," or "bargain") are dominated by travel-related terms such as "cheap airline tickets," "cheap hotels," "cheap cruises" and car rentals. Searches for electronics, autos and other expensive items are less likely to be preceded by a deal "qualifier." This focus on travel may be due to the fact that consumers expect the greatest room for price fluctuations when booking flights, hotels and rental cars...
...tempting to discount this show after its admittedly terrible sixth season. But think back to how new and bracing the format that's now routine once was. Created before Sept. 11 and debuting just weeks after, 24 captured the country's edgy mood, and not just because it was about terrorism. With its breathless real-time format and multiscreens, 24 reflects the same information-overload media culture that gave us the zipper and screens within screens on cable news. The computers work a little too well, the Los Angeles traffic is suspiciously light, and Jack Bauer never has to take...
...acres of restricted military base on a low-lying, depopulated atoll 1,000 miles from the nearest continent. Back in 1966, the U.S. signed a secret agreement with Great Britain allowing the Pentagon to use the Indian Ocean territory as an airbase in exchange for a big discount on Polaris nuclear missiles. Three years later, hundreds of Navy seabees arrived by ship and began pouring out the 12,000-foot runway that would become a bulwark of American Cold War strategy in the region, and a key launching pad for the first and second Gulf wars, the 1998 bombing...
This rating is based on a combination of three factors: the ratio of quality to price with quality defined by the other set of rankings, the percentage of students receiving need-based scholarships, and the average discount given to students. In the spring of last year, Harvard announced that families earning less than $60,000 a year would no longer be expected to pay for their children to attend Harvard, and that the contributions of families with annual incomes between $60,000 and $80,000 would be reduced...