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Although the nonalcoholic sector has made merry for the past five years, future growth is far from guaranteed. The recession could force cash-strapped sippers to turn to cheaper soft drinks. (A can of Coke costs about two-thirds of a bottle of alcohol-free beer.) And despite the improvements in taste, it's unlikely that beer connoisseurs like Evans will ever become fans. "You need the roundness and fullness that alcohol brings to a beer to hold [all the flavors] together," he says...
...Price is Right These places are all free, if the owners can find good swapping partners...
Montreal Townhouse This graystone is located in the city's trendy Plateau Mont-Royal district Will swap for: A three-week stay in Argentina Where it's listed: 1stHomeExchange.com, where it's free to list a home but costs $75 a year to contact members...
...hard to beat free access to a washer and dryer and fully equipped kitchen, but swaps entail more planning than simply whipping out a credit card for a vacation package. Exchange seekers often contact dozens of people before they find someone willing and appropriate. For starters, location really matters. Kathleen Dwyer, a retired assistant principal who has been exchanging for six years, says she fielded lots of offers to swap when she posted her apartment in Manhattan. Now that she exchanges only her vacation home--an old sea captain's house in a fishing village in Nova Scotia--swapping inquiries...
...Front (ZANU-PF) lost a general election to Morgan Tsvangirai's opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). Refusing to accept the result, Mugabe turned his security forces on his own people, killing more than 100, arresting thousands and displacing tens of thousands. But this February, with the economy in free fall, Mugabe agreed to share power with Tsvangirai. Mugabe would remain President, Tsvangirai would be Prime Minister, and their parties would split the ministries and Cabinet. (Read TIME's exclusive interview with Tsvangirai...