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...this be, especially for such a non-essential product like video games? A music teacher told me once that in a recession, entertainment is the first thing to go. He was probably right for his line of work, since households will look to cut back on high-price entertainment like concerts...

Author: By Adam R. Gold | Title: No Recession in this Castle | 12/14/2008 | See Source »

...same logic applies to video games. The game Renaissance 2 costs six times the price of seeing the movie Madagascar 2, but games are actually cheaper if you measure their cost by the hour. If we say that movies cost $10, and assume that the typical movie lasts 2 hours, then a moviegoer spends $5 per hour of entertainment. Most games last much longer. A triple-A video game title like Fallout 3, for instance, is priced at $60, but reviews have claimed anywhere between 50 and 100 hours of playtime. Even using the conservative estimate of 20 hours...

Author: By Adam R. Gold | Title: No Recession in this Castle | 12/14/2008 | See Source »

...Gudeon’s pics Jewish holidays, Japanese poetry, and fly illustrations. A picture’s worth a thousand words. That’s 10 times the words in this whole book. The length is perfect for tired parents who need short bedtime stories. Two cultures for the price of one. A great deal! Thank the giving author. “Holiday Princess,” by Meg Cabot In keeping with its “Princess Diaries” subject, this holiday book cover is pink and white instead of red and green. And just in case...

Author: By Elizabeth C. Pezza, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: BY ITS COVER: Ziefert, Cabot, Peterson | 12/12/2008 | See Source »

...personality, Nixon proves a better showman than his interlocutor. An enigmatic Langella resists caricature; each viewer will leave the theater with a different impression of a man who is at once charismatic, boring, conniving, sympathetic, unflappable, and vulnerable. Langella’s Oscar-caliber work alone is worth the price of admission.With this film, director Ron Howard rediscovers his ability to take intellectualism and make it palpable and engaging onscreen. This is the vintage Howard of “A Beautiful Mind” and not the pedantic Howard of “The Da Vinci Code...

Author: By Yair Rosenberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Frost/Nixon | 12/12/2008 | See Source »

...estimate about 400 metric tons of cocaine are moving through the Central American corridor, meaning most of it would go through Guatemala," says U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala, Stephen McFarland. That makes for a business worth over $7 billion, based on the National Drug Intelligence Center's estimated average wholesale price of cocaine in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico Exports Its Drug Wars to Guatemala | 12/12/2008 | See Source »

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