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...prefab wall systems--enameled-steel panels that not only were easy to clean but also allowed you to attach paintings to your walls with magnets. The Jetsons would have loved it. All the same, by the 1950s prefab was in decline. Mobile homes had emerged as the more popular low-cost alternative to stick-built housing. There are still dozens of modular-housing manufacturers in the U.S., but last year they produced just 36,000 of the more than 1.8 million new housing starts nationwide...
...been easy. Faced with large deficits, state officials have had to make tough choices about important programs. Yet there are some state services too vital to fall victim to budget politics. The Children’s Medical Security Plan (CMSP) and the MassHealth program, which provide low-cost health insurance to poor and middle-income working families, deserve to be spared...
...intends to fly from New York City to the Dominican Republic. Fares are expected to be as low as $268 round trip, vs. $423 currently on American Airlines. Low-fare carrier America West said last week it is adding more routes to cities in Canada and Mexico. Fares on flights from Las Vegas to Calgary start at $242 round trip. AirTran Airways, which is aggressively challenging Delta Airlines, starts fares from Atlanta and Baltimore to the Bahamas at $99 one way. Low-cost Frontier Airlines has become so successful flying to five cities in Mexico that it flies more passengers...
...Window Of Opportunity Hewlett-Packard will begin selling low-cost Linux-based PCs in Asia, making it the first major computer maker to launch large-scale marketing of PCs running the free, open-source operating system...
...people used dial-up modems, which don't have enough bandwidth to transmit video well. But now that more than a third of all Internet users have DSL or cable-modem connections, online video quality is finally up to snuff, if not exactly Emmy worthy. There's also a low-cost program that makes video chatting simpler than ever...