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...coherent. Bono lobbied Bush to increase money to fight AIDS in Africa and assist impoverished countries. Later that day Bush pledged $5 billion in foreign aid to poor nations that improve their records on human rights and create open markets. Bono later admitted proudly, "I'm not a cheap date...
...Like a lot of Samsung's new devices, these combine cutting-edge technology with award-winning design - at premium prices. That's something new for a company that only a few years ago was known as a mass marketer of cheap TVs and VCRs - the kind you bought if you couldn't afford a Sony or Mitsubishi. Since 1997, however, Samsung has begun rubbing shoulders with the market leaders in high-end cell phones, DVD players, elegant flat plasma TVs and a wide range of other consumer products. These gadgets are sometimes less expensive than those of Japanese or Finnish...
Emerging into painful consciousness the next afternoon, I decide to salve my pounding head with a shopping spree (and half a bottle of aspirin). I skip the overpriced stores of Shangxiajiu and go to Dongshan district for cheap, brand-name Western garments. I then proceed to go mad, spending $106 on clothes, including a $7 leather "Gucci" wallet the clerk assures me was made in Italy?which must be what they're calling Shenzhen...
...police station, stroll straight to the office that contains its most sensitive information, and walk out again with highly classified documents. But that's just what happened last week at Castlereagh Police Station in Belfast. The perpetrators of this audacious crime did more than just provide the authors of cheap fiction with a new plot twist - they managed to spook the real-life spooks...
Private aviation flights aren't cheap, but compared to first- or business-class tickets - especially those bought at the last minute - they're sometimes a bargain. World Air Pass can fly a 14-passenger jet non-stop from New York to London at $3,000 a seat, one way. Considering that a round-trip, first-class commercial ticket could cost about $11,500 (and business class up to $7,400), a private jet can still be cost-efficient. Even when the private fare is higher, time savings can more than compensate. Savile says that for $29,000, Air Partner...