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...dinners and pre-packaged lunches come in handy. But consumers looking for quick nutrition should probably look elsewhere, according to Amy Lanou, a nutritionist at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. "People think of turkey as a lighter meat, less fatty," she says. "But when you take a low-cost frozen dinner, they tend to be the cheaper, fattier cuts of meat." One product with surprising nutritional content is Swanson's Hungry Man XXL Roasted Carved Turkey, which clocks in at 5,410 mg of sodium per package. "Turkey may seem a quick meal, but between sodium...
...after a few months. The networks are hoping to find in the telenovela a new format, like reality TV, that will reclaim viewers who have soured on sitcoms, police procedurals and, well, reality TV. "The reality-TV genre is growing stale, and networks are looking for a new, low-cost format to fill that gap," says Monica Gadsby, a Hispanic-media expert and the CEO of Tapestry, a marketing firm in Chicago. If the shows connect with viewers, the U.S. will soon have a taste of the melodramatic highs and campy lows that virtually every other country in the world...
...that his invention, one of some 4,300 submissions in a contest run by TIME, the History Channel and the National Inventors Hall of Fame, was named the 2006 Modern Marvel of the Year. Ward's Strawjet takes a renewable and universally available resource - straw - and turns it into low-cost building material that will provide farmers with extra income and eliminate the need for deforestation. Another eco-friendly detail: instead of using plastic resin, the tractor-size farming implement binds straw together using paper pulp, clay and cement...
...Fakewatch When a team at China's Shanghai Jiaotong University announced in 2003 that it had developed a sophisticated microprocessor for mobile phones and MP3 players, it was hailed as a major step forward for a nation eager to move beyond low-cost manufacturing and piracy. But following an investigation, the school announced last week that the capabilities of the Hanxin-or "China chip"-were exaggerated, and that it relied on copied technology. The university dismissed Chen Jin, above, the project's head and dean of its microelectronics school, accusing him of "serious falsification." The technology may have been...
...India has seen the launch of a wave of new airlines in recent years. Kingfisher has set impressive service standards, but the biggest social impact has been made by three low-cost carriers: Air Deccan, SpiceJet and GoAir. A ticket on one of these is often cheaper than a good seat on a train?something that has made flying, once the preserve of the rich, an affordable reality, even for lower-middle-class Indians. Their discovery of air travel puts India's aviation sector among the world's fastest growing. The fledgling budget airlines still contend with a few teething...