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...Dynegy got into the Enron deal for three reasons. The first - that Enron stock was dirt cheap - went sour when Enron's stock continued to slide even faster than Dynegy's, but the renegotiations looked likely to rectify that. The other two were about structure - Dynegy wanted to take over as the energy-trading honcho by folding its own trading operation into Enron's powerhouse, and it wanted to beef up its real energy-production assets by acquiring Enron subsidiary Northern Natural Gas, a pipeline network that runs from the upper Midwest down to Texas...
...travel is on discounters. His round-trip fare cost $47 on Ryanair, and would have cost at least four times as much on British Airways, British Midland or Lufthansa. But he's found out that reduced flexibility is part of the price business travelers pay to get a cheap fair on the discounters. "When your ticket is completely nonrefundable, you have to make your flight," he says ruefully. "That can be a major problem when meetings run late...
Tokyo has long been one of the world's most expensive cities, especially for business travelers, who regale colleagues back home with tales of the $38 room-service breakfast. But for locals and savvy expats, many of the best things in the Japanese capital are, if not free, surprisingly cheap...
Drones have some obvious advantages over manned aircraft: they don't put pilots' lives at risk, and they're relatively cheap. For the price of one F-22 ($180 million) you could buy 60 Predators. Today about a dozen Predators--which are flown by the CIA as well as the Air Force--are loitering in the skies over Afghanistan, largely invisible from the ground but able to spot objects 4-in. across from 16 miles away. Their prey is what the Pentagon calls "high-value mobile" targets--like SUVs suspected of ferrying bin Laden from one hiding place to another...
...CHEAP $10 PRINCETON TEC PULSAR FLASHLIGHT What? You think key chains are just for holding the keys to your SUV? Princeton Tec's tiny terror of a flashlight is the size of a large grape, but it puts out 12 hr. of brilliant white light on just two watch batteries. You won't even remember it's there--until you lose a contact in your tent in the middle of the night. www.princetontec.com...