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...postimperial age. Can Hong Kong transform itself again, as it did in the 1950s when it became more than a China gateway by turning itself into a manufacturing powerhouse? Or is it destined to become like Rio de Janeiro? Fifty years ago, the Brazilian city was the priciest place on the planet. But it lost its bearings when the bureaucracy moved to Brasilia, the bankers moved to S?o Paulo, and slums and drugs trumped its topography and iconic beaches...
FIRST ALERT has three different models in its OneLink line firstalert.com $50 to $90 a unit), currently available at Home Depot. The priciest includes smoke and carbon-monoxide detection and talks aloud, announcing throughout the house the specific location where a hazard has been detected...
When the board game Monopoly hit London in 1936, the priciest property sold for a then staggering ?400. That doesn't go far in London today, so a limited-edition 70th anniversary special Monopoly Here & Now brings the game up to date. New hot properties such as Notting Hill and Canary Wharf are selling for mini-money millions, a barrage of London icons - including the London Eye, Tate Modern and the new Wembley Stadium - have appeared and, instead of scooping up $18 in a beauty contest, players who draw the right Chance card receive $183,000 for winning a reality...
...issue in the Scruggs lawsuits and the state probes is soaring hospital charges. You've heard of the $10 aspirin? It's that pricey because hospitals mark up costs an average of 232%--as much as 673% at the 100 priciest institutions, according to a recent study by the Institute for Health and Socio-Economic Policy. Hospitals do this largely because insurers negotiate discounts off the list price, creating incentives to inflate charges. That expensive aspirin also subsidizes other items and services--a widespread practice...
...being drawn by the chance to reach out to global audiences and into deeper U.S. pockets. "In France, we make movies for the art of it," Kassovitz says. "It's only art movies that come out." Not so in the U.S., where the box office rules. France's priciest production ever, Jean-Jacques Annaud's just-released Two Brothers, about two tiger cubs separated at birth, cost about 360 million - a little more than the average U.S. film. Even a quirky, just-off-mainstream U.S. project like Gondry's Eternal Sunshine got a generous budget of about $35 million. Kassovitz...