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...plan to finance the car. Just say, Let's talk about price. Only when you have settled on a number, do you say, I'd like to talk about financing. The dealer will tell you what rates are available. Then use the rate in your back pocket to see if you can finagle a better deal...
...Although there are numerous ways, one that is rarely mentioned is for people to accept responsibility for making lifestyle changes associated with many preventable diseases. If people had to pay out of thier own pocket for an illness caused by thier own poor health habits, it might be an incentive to take better care of ourselves, thus lowering our drug costs. Rosalyn Cordis Oak Park...
...third-party system keeps costs astronomical. People who are covered don't mind paying $600 for a bottle of pills as long as they have their $15 deductible. If insurance companies were eliminated and people paid out of pocket, the market would demand lower costs. The government needs to help fund pharmaceutical research. Military R&D got us cell phones, the Internet, and Teflon. Instead of making life-saving drugs a lucrative business venture, the government should be the one funding in the first place so that patents won't be an issue. And people take way too many drugs...
...both to calibrate its instruments and get the data flow streaming back to Earth. The Apollo astronauts used to do something similar, spending their first moments on the moon collecting what they called a contingency sample--a clump of lunar soil and rock they would tuck into a spacesuit pocket so they would have something to show for the trip if a sudden emergency forced them to turn around and come straight home. Spirit, of course, is never coming home. It will spend its entire useful life on the Martian surface and die there sometime before the end of spring...
...Player with Dell Jukebox powered by Musicmatch (from $224 for 15 GB; from $279 for 20 GB). First, the bad news: at a hefty 215 g (a comparable iPod weighs 57 g less), the Dell DJ is a little too big - it barely fits in a pants pocket. But the player has some nice improvements over Apple's. The large volume buttons are a plus; with the iPod, it's often easier to tear off your headphones than to turn down a song. The home button comes in handy when you're stuck deep in your music library...