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...Well before the Budget, great hopes were held by the urgers. Maverick M.P.s, think tanks, business lobbyists, welfare groups and opinionaters shot out a stream of ideas for things to do with revenues swollen by the resources jackpot. A short list included tax cuts, for companies and individuals; more investment in skills development, education and research; increasing workforce participation and raising national savings; improving child-care arrangements; and modernizing infrastructure, especially broadband, roads, railways and ports. The government certainly delivered in some of these areas, but the programs were scattered and underfunded; they seemed like mere sops to the policy...
...sound version of its service for the living room. Like DVDs, some XM tracks are in 5.1 audio - that is, they contain separate sound for five speakers and a subwoofer. So XM has partnered with Yamaha and others, who have introduced audio receivers that decode XM's surround audio stream. I borrowed Yamaha's new RX-V659 ($550; yamaha.com/yec) and tuned to XM Pops, to test...
With this surgical sojourn, his first trip outside the U.S., Miller joined the swelling ranks of medical tourists. As word has spread about the high-quality care and cut-rate surgery available in such countries as India, Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia, a growing stream of uninsured and underinsured Americans are boarding planes not for the typical face-lift or tummy tuck but for discount hip replacements and sophisticated heart surgeries. Bumrungrad alone, according to CEO Curtis Schroeder, saw its stream of American patients climb to 55,000 last year, a 30% rise. Three-quarters of them flew in from...
...releases an album, I don't want to rent it; I want it paid off and mine to keep.?A subscription is a better way to hook you up with songs you weren't planning to buy. But for this to work, you must be introduced to a steady stream of music you didn't know you wanted...
...says she comes to Cambridge to shop “a lot.” “Now I’ll have to look someplace else for that. It’s kind of disappointing.” Yesterday, during the outdoor May Day Fair, a steady stream of pedestrians walked up to the door trying to enter the store. Instead, the locked door bore a sign that informed them of the store’s closing. Until May 31, Harnett’s will have reduced hours. The store will be closed on Sundays, and it will...