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...IBMis just one component. Each family also has an Icebox FlipScreen (a TV with a DVD-CD player and Internet access that hangs from a kitchen cabinet) and a Whirlpool refrigerator equipped with a wireless Web tablet. Everything is networked to the family PC and uses the household's high-speed Internet connection to go online. For the Yacobians of Needham, Mass., this means more fat cables running up from the home office in the basement and a bunch of new network devices around an already cluttered desk. But it also means more home-cooked meals on Dory's "crazy...
Along the way, he becomes embroiled in an internecine squabble within the household of Ampliatus, one of Pompeii's plutocrats, which brings him into contact with Ampliatus' sexy daughter and leads him to the mystery of his predecessor's sudden disappearance. Harris has a field day with the debauched goings-on at Ampliatus'--the menu includes honeyed mice, parrot tongues, a sow's udder stuffed with kidneys (with the sow's vulva on the side) and a moray eel fattened on human flesh...
...Then came the hangover. Household savings rates, as high as 23% of disposable annual income in 1998, plummeted to less than 10% last year while household debt, which includes personal loans and credit cards, soared by 30% last year to $365 billion. South Korea lapsed into recession in the first half of 2003, which made it harder for consumers to pay their bills on time. Unlike most credit-card markets, Korean lenders do not offer revolving credit, which allows borrowers to pay off their debt over months or even years. Instead, balances must usually be paid in full after just...
...Bill Clinton, who engineered the passage of NAFTA, the ratio of CEO wages to those of the average U.S. worker skyrocketed from 113 to 1 in 1991 to 449 to 1 at the end of his presidency. According to the Congressional Budget Office, from 1979 to 1997, the average household in the lowest quintile declined significantly, while the average household in the top 1 percent soared from $256,400 to $644,300. Households in the middle quintile barely rose. Yes, someone is cleaning up from the Washington Consensus, and it is clearly not Joseph and Josephine Six-Pack...
...deficits a little lighter? A 2001 study by the California Energy Commission showed that observing Daylight Saving Time year round would cut winter electricity use at peak times by 3.4 percent—a really impressive statistic because it is limited by fixed electricity uses such as running household appliances. The modest amounts of energy conserved by setting clocks forward add up in the long...