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...next day, I met a friend at a bar to watch a Yankees playoff game. When I went to order a beer, I remembered my week of frugality and told the waitress I couldn't have one because of its fixed price. So she gave it to me at the happy-hour price. This was the kind of sale I could handle. You just mumble, "Can you do a little better?" instead of mailing in receipts and filling your key ring with bar codes. Sale mavens are people who like rules and finding loopholes and outsmarting systems, whereas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joel Stein: The Week of Living Cheaply | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

...with his wife seven years ago and fell in love with Indian Village's 19th century manors, built for the city's emerging industrial barons. Footing the bill for private security is almost like paying an extra tax, he acknowledges, but it's worth the cost. The median sale price of homes in Detroit has plunged from $59,700 in August 2005 to $8,000 just two months ago. "You could argue that one reason the homes are less expensive in the city is the level of services isn't as high," he says. "If there's some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detroit: Where Private Security Is Booming | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

Oysters may not be FlyBy's favorite food--they can often be slimy, eel-like, and, well, eel-like. (Yeah. Like Flotsam and Jetsam in The Little Mermaid. Eeeew.) But, given the very reasonable price and a good excuse to enjoy an evening out at somewhere other than Oggi, the Upper Crust, or, God forbid, the Kong, FlyBy is willing to consider and give...

Author: By James K. Mcauley | Title: $1 Oysters at Rialto | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

...some corruption on a very small scale, but the pressing issue of increasing violence in Mexico will not be solved. Profits reaped by the drug cartels will remain high because of the strong demand from the U.S. and Europe and because of remaining prohibitive laws that drive up the price of the drugs. The drug cartels most responsible for the violence are still going to trade within a black market and operate outside the regulatory strictures of government because the sale of drugs is still illegal. Weapons will remain easily accessible to drug cartels because of lax laws...

Author: By Charles A. Lacalle | Title: Drugs Without Borders | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

When FlyBy took a look at the artists considered to be "within the CEB's price range," though, we couldn't help but scratch our heads in puzzlement. Peter Bjorn and John? !!!(Chick Chick Chick)? Del the Funky Homosapien...

Author: By Naveen N. Srivatsa | Title: Yardfest 2010 Poll Released | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

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