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Before you hit the Submit Order button, take note of the shipping charges. Paying $4.95 is fairly standard, but deals abound, particularly during the holidays. SONYSTYLE.COM, for instance, which carries a full line of Sony electronics, charges customers 1¢ per item for regular UPS ground (three to five business days). AMAZON.COM ships free when you spend $25 or more (with some exceptions). Elsewhere, shipping can get pretty steep. If paying CRATEANDBARREL.COM $8.50 to ship a $40 fruit bowl sounds unreasonable to you, check to see if the Crate & Barrel store at your local mall has it in stock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Click Smart | 11/18/2002 | See Source »

...Sabah stopped carrying his, complaining of its weight. Before you put a Vertu on your Christmas list, check Santa's bank balance: prices go all the way up to €24,000 for the platinum model. In functional terms, that sum gets you one unique feature: a "concierge" button that lets you buy theater tickets or restaurant bookings in any city in the U.S., Europe and Asia by dialing into a 24-hour call center. But of course, many of today's expensive accessories were once seen as purely functional; think of the wristwatch. Still, you don't strap your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vertu Is Its Own Reward | 11/17/2002 | See Source »

...stations around the country, he was secretly plotting a counter-coup against Daschle. That was why the phone call that had just come in Tuesday afternoon was important. It was from Rudy Boschwitz, the Republican senator the late Paul Wellstone had unseated 12 years ago. Lott pushed the mute button on the TV remote so he could hear what Boschwitz had to say. Angry that a Wellstone memorial service last week turned into a partisan political rally, Minnesota's unpredictable Gov. Jesse Ventura last Monday appointed independent Dean Berkley to fill Wellstone's seat until the senator-elect (Republican Norm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trent Lott's Plan to Take Over the Senate | 11/11/2002 | See Source »

...will Bush go on the hot button issues, such as overhauling the tax code or rewiring the judiciary in the event of Supreme Court retirements? To date, the Bush team has kept its conservative political base happy but also known when to compromise on issues such as education and campaign finance. Bush's political advisers say that the president is not a counter-puncher but prefers to lead with a positive agenda. But during this election campaign, the Bush vision often had more to do with responding to security challenges from abroad than with any of his domestic programs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Will Bush Manage his Triumph? | 11/6/2002 | See Source »

BEST DATA MILL multexinvestor.com A trove of company and market data, with a mix of free and paid research reports from some 200 sources. The Advanced Search button lets you specify industry or research provider. The Headlines section provides a summary of the day's news; read one capsule, and you will get a scrolling series of news briefs about the same company going back weeks or months, while the menu bar provides links to other company info. Biggest complaint: too many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Websites | 11/4/2002 | See Source »

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