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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...
...customers and predatory middlemen. Most sales take place in developing countries, where a kidney can often be purchased for the price of a high-end TV. In Iran - the only country in the world where organ sales are legal - a healthy kidney retails for about $6,000. The going rate is less than half that amount in India, which has an abundance of doctors capable of performing the procedure and destitute masses often unable to raise cash any other way. In January 2008, police busted an organ racket outside New Delhi that allegedly conned or forced poor laborers to relinquish...
...performance in the island's history. The government forecasts the economy will shrink by 4.25% in 2009. Even before the downturn, Taiwan's tech-dependent, export-dependent model was struggling. Between 2000 and 2007, Taiwan's GDP grew on average 4.1% a year, down sharply from the average annual rate of 6.5% from 1990 to 1999. Read "China's Panda Diplomacy With Taiwan...
...Africa, however, that the battle for the hearts, minds and lungs of new smokers is being waged most aggressively - and Nigeria offers a telling look at how the fight is unfolding. For all the woes that beset the continent, Africa still enjoys the lowest smoking rates in the world, largely because most people just can't afford it. In Ghana, the male smoking rate (which in most places in the world is higher than the female rate) is only 8%; in the Democratic Republic of Congo, it's 14%; in Nigeria, it's 12%. Compare that with 31% in India...
...California, medical-marijuana sales are already taxed, and one community recently grabbed for a bigger slice of the pot pie. Residents in Oakland on July 21 overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure that would make the city the first in the country to establish a new tax rate for medical-marijuana businesses. The measure, which a preliminary count shows passed with 80% support, considerably hikes the tax Oakland marijuana dispensaries pay on sales, from $1.20 per $1,000 in receipts...