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...Rolls-Royce offer this kind of luxury at such a relatively cut-rate price? One place the company saved money is in the electrical and safety systems, which Rolls-Royce borrowed from its parent company, BMW. The Ghost also has a steel frame, unlike the Phantom's aluminum skeleton, making it less expensive to manufacture, although also less adaptable to customization. (Read TIME's 2007 story "Rolls-Royce: Rolling in Dough...
...even if Obama continues to apply pressure, the solution to the settlement question will have to come from inside Israel. For many Israelis, the settlements are not a matter of ideology - they simply offer a cheap place to live for a growing population. Still others see no need for settlements at all. Two opinion polls in June had very different results. In one, 56% supported Obama's position; in the other, 56% opposed it. As the settlers build, tacitly assisted by the state, activists often campaign against them. "This is about the borders of morality. Do we want to rape...
...rules meant to keep them and their customers out of trouble. Decades of haphazard and at times heedless deregulation followed, with eventually disastrous results. The CFPA legislation envisions a partial return of the straitjacket. Among its other tasks, the new agency would devise plain-vanilla products that lenders must offer customers - but those customers could still opt for complexity. Most of us need protection, the new reasoning goes. But not quite...
...country where 40% of people live on a dollar a day, mobile phone operator Safaricom recently unveiled a deal that gives average consumers one gigabyte of data (only enough to satisfy the lightest of web surfers) for about $32 - and that was touted as a bargain. Other firms offer unlimited but extremely slow Internet connections, barely capable of making Skype calls, for about $40 per month. "No one can [guarantee] there will be a 90% drop next year, but hopefully there will be," says Christopher Stork, senior researcher at Research ICT Africa, a technology analysis firm based in South Africa...
...statistics don't take into account the fact that people will use the Internet over their mobile phones, which are seemingly ubiquitous even in the poorest African villages. Nor does it measure the myriad ways in which people will take advantage of speedy Internet access to create businesses or offer services that, before Thursday, would have been too costly to fund. "The demand for bandwidth can't be based on current prices and current demands," says Stork. "As soon as prices drop, many more applications come up and create more demand...