Penny-pinching vacation ideas

By David BurgeEl Paso TimesWith gas prices setting a new high nearly every day and air fares on the rise, summer vacation travelers will feel the pinch in their wallets this year.
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Never Mind the Years. What Did You Do?

Sitting at your desk plugging away with your head down is not the way to boost your Wow! factor. Getting out and making things happen is
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Gas Prices Expected to get Worse in Coming Months

DENVER (MyFoxColorado.com) - It has never happened before in our country. Drivers are now paying an average of $4 a gallon for gasoline. And some analysts predict it could get significantly worse over the next 6 months to two years.
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GASp! National average price for a gallon tops $4

Prices are expected to keep climbing, meaning consumers and businesses will shoulder higher costs for everything that needs to be transported.
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Improving Drug Design: Chemist Learn To Make Left Or Right Versions Of Synthetic Drug Molecules

A chemist has apparently solved a long-standing frustration in creating certain synthetic molecules that make up drugs, which could lead to better drugs with fewer side effects. Like human hands, many molecules that make up drugs come in two shapes, right and left. But usually only one of the two versions has the desired effect; the other is at best useless and sometimes even harmful. For ...
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Uncertainty as Tribune Prepares to Retrench

To deal with shrinking revenue, Sam Zell, the chairman and chief executive of the Tribune Company, cut staff and is aiming for a 50-50 split between ad and news content.
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Apple hopes to entice customers with cheaper, smaller iPhone

Apple is preparing to slash the price of its iPhone handset in an attempt to convince millions more customers to get on board. The iPod-maker is due to launch an improved version of its much-vaunted touchscreen mobile phone today. Although the announcement is being closely guarded, sources have confirmed a number of details to the Guardian. The handset will offer faster connections to the ...
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GPS can now help you find cheaper gas prices

Many drivers already know a GPS device can save gas by helping them avoid driving around in circles, but now the gadgets can actually help you save directly at the pump.
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Gas prices fuelling change in plans

Mike and Kelly Wolter have been exploring the West Coast in their small live-aboard boat for years, even motoring up to Desolation Sound a few years ago for their summer holidays.
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Tech toys: Smaller, cheaper, more powerful

Jim Barry bears gifts in his gym bag that have been called gizmos, gadgets, boy toys and in a pinch, thingamajigs or doohickeys. ...
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Props, rocks and jets

The river is slowly getting lower, rocks are starting to show that we haven?t seen for a while. Hopefully we will continue to get some rain to keep the river and the trout streams flowing well. Last summer the river level was low for a long time, and many trout streams also suffered.
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Minivan sales slow, hit by gas prices and image

While the rapid decline in pickup and sport utility sales has been grabbing the headlines, minivan sales have also taken a tumble, falling 20 percent in the first five months of this year.
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Motorists switching to cheaper alternatives amid rising pump prices

WITH pump prices heading north, motorists here are switching to cheaper alternatives. Some have given up the car entirely and moved to public transport, others downgraded to smaller cars or two-wheelers; while a growing number have opted for hybrid engines.
From: www.straitstimes.com

Whole Milk Cheaper, Effective Contrast Agent for GI Scans

FRIDAY, June 6 (HealthDay News) -- Whole milk does as good a job as a diluted barium solution when used as an oral contrast agent in patients getting a gastrointestinal CT scan, and it is cheaper and more agreeable with the patient, a new study finds.
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Update) Cheaper medicines bill signed into law

STA. CRUZ, LAGUNA, Philippines - A measure intended to enhance access to generic drugs finally became law Friday, with President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo calling it the completion of government efforts to provide cheaper medicines to Filipinos.
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Cheaper meds bill now law effective Sept.

MANILA, Philippines--With the signing into law of the cheaper medicines bill Friday, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said that her administration had completed the legislative reforms needed to bring affordable medicine to the people.
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Cheaper patented drugs may now be imported

STA. CRUZ, Laguna ? President Arroyo yesterday signed into law the cheaper medicine bill, a measure that seeks to lower the cost of drugs by encouraging more competition.
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GMA signs Cheaper Medicine Law

The long wait is over. Filipinos can now expect more low-cost medicine in the market with the signing into law of the Universally Accessible, Cheaper and Quality Medicine Act of 2008.
From: www.philstar.com

E-85 is cheaper than gas

In some places, ethanol is now nearly a dollar a gallon cheaper than gas
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Headline: Cheaper medicines bill signed into law

STA. CRUZ, LAGUNA â?" A measure intended to enhance access to generic drugs finally became law yesterday, with President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo calling it the completion of government efforts to provide cheaper medicines to Filipinos.
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?Signing of law not end of fight for cheaper drugs? -- solon

MANILA, Philippines -- The fight for cheaper medicines did not end with the signing of Republic Act 9502, or the "Universally Accessible Cheaper and Quality Medicines Act of 2008," by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, an administration lawmaker said Friday.
From: newsinfo.inquirer.net

Cheaper medicines act signed into law

The law on cheaper and quality medicines was signed today at the Laguna Provincial Hospital in Sta. Cruz, Laguna with the principal authors of the bill from the House of Representatives and the Senate joining President Arroyo.
From: www.philstar.com

Cheaper medicines bill now a law

President Arroyo yesterday signed into law the congressional bill entitled the ?Universally Accessible Cheaper and Quality Medicines Act of 2008,? giving ordinary Filipinos increased access to affordable, but quality medicines.
From: www.tribune.net.ph

Disney World comes to Google Earth in 3D

Finally, there?s a cheaper way to visit Walt Disney World and you won?t need to worry about plane tickets or fueling up your car. You don?t even need to buy tickets to enter the park. Now I?m not talking about smuggling yourself on to a plane or a bus and then sneaking into one of [...]
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UPDATE 2) Arroyo signs cheaper medicines law

STA. CRUZ, Laguna -- President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo signed here on Friday a new law that aims to bring down the price of medicines by encouraging more competition in the local market through parallel importation of cheaper but quality drugs.
From: newsinfo.inquirer.net

The bank of family and friends: A new student-loan wrinkle

The credit crunch has driven dozens of lenders out of the student loan market. But a number of new Web sites are trying to sidestep the traditional players, facilitating loans between students and anonymous investors or even friends and family members.
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Phone, fax and VOIP all subject to 911 surcharge

Next month, all billing for landline and cellular phones, Voice Over Internet Protocol and fax usage sent to Calhoun County addresses will include a 60-cent surcharge that will help fund a consolidated countywide dispatch center.
From: www.battlecreekenquirer.com

Smaller, cheaper laptops take trade fair by storm

TAIPEI, June 5 - When 17-year old Yuna Hua bought a new notebook computer for school, she chose a smaller, lighter and cheaper one to replace her bulky and expensive laptop.
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Cell Phone Study Suggests People Are Losing Their Wanderlust

Copyright © 2008 ScoutNews LLC. All rights reserved. WEDNESDAY, June 4 (HealthDay News) -- Using cell phone records to track movement, a new study suggests that people are creatures of habit, spending most of their time going to -- and remaining at -- a few key locations, such as work and home.
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Renegades find recipe for cheaper fuel in ethanol-gas blends

MINNEAPOLIS -- Wally Lutz believes in ethanol, not least because his western Minnesota neighbors grow the corn that goes into the biofuel. So for three years, Lutz has done his best to put at least half ethanol in his family cars, which aren?t meant to be powered by anything but standard gasoline. | Teens forced to choose between gas, other spending | Find the best local gas prices
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With uncertain economy, parents struggle with money spent on children

Parents in all income brackets have the shaky economy on their minds, but in this spendy era of the $900 baby stroller and the ultra-birthday party, are they resisting the urge to splurge on their kids?
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Cebu urged to produce biodiesel

IF farmers will be receptive to planting jatropha or intercropping it in their sites and will learn how to take care of the crops while the government expands jatropha plantations, Cebu may get its own supply of biodiesel.
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Lending tree growth stunted

The credit crunch has driven dozens of lenders out of the student loan market. But a number of new Web sites are trying to sidestep the traditional players, facilitating loans between students and anonymous investors or even friends and family members.
From: www.nwitimes.com

Violence erupts in Brussels amid fuel price protest

BRUSSELS, Belgium ? Riot police armed with shields and batons charged hundreds of protesting fishermen outside European Union headquarters today after a demonstration over high fuel prices turned violent.
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Testing the theory of Welsh holidays being cheaper

Holiday costs Majorca versus Pembrokeshire.
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Home or away? Is it cheaper to take a Welsh holiday this year?

With one euro now costing almost 90p, reports suggest ever-greater numbers of British holidaymakers are opting for a domestic break. Is the British holiday market about to experience a bumper year thanks to the soaring euro and how much cheaper is it to take a break in Wales? Darren Devine reports
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11:08 a.m.)

MANILA -- President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is set to sign the cheaper medicine?s bill or the "Universally Accessible Cheaper and Quality Medicines Act of 2008," on Friday, June 6, at the Laguna provincial Hospital in Sta. Cruz in Laguna.
From: www.sunstar.com.ph

Car insurance gets cheaper by 30%

Ever since the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (Irda) allowed motor insurance companies to decide premiums in December 2007, car insurance premiums have fallen sharply. The focus, it seems, is clearly on garnering more retail customers.For instance, in March 2007, the premium for a Honda City was Rs 20,760 in Mumbai. But this year it has fallen to Rs 15,770 - a difference of Rs ...
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NPPA says no to unilateral price hike

The drug industry has argued that the reasons that warranted a price cut -- steady appreciation of the rupee against the dollar and cheaper raw material costs -- were no longer applicable as the rupee is falling and cost of imported raw material is shooting up. Industry wants the NPPA to reverse the price reduction.
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The bank of family and friends: new student-loan wrinkle

-- The credit crunch has driven dozens of lenders out of the student loan market. But a number of new Web sites are trying to sidestep the traditional players, facilitating loans between students and anonymous investors or even friends and family members.
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Euthanasia tourists snap up pet shop drug in Mexico

Elderly foreign tourists are tapping Mexican pet shops for a drug used by veterinarians to put cats and dogs to sleep that has become the sedative of choice for euthanasia campaigners.
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Initiatives to try and stem the sale of tobacco should be applied in a similar way to unhealthy foods, a health watchdog says.
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Sun Jumps Into Flash

The server maker says consumer demand for solid-state storage is also making the technology cheaper for big businesses.
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Zainul Arifin: Take the bus, switch off those lights

ONE cannot help having this edge-of-the-cliff feeling that another hike in fuel prices, and the customarily attendant rises in cost of other goods and services, is inevitable. Facts are getting in the way of our hopes.
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Parents waiting for action

Ten months after sending a dossier to the KZN Education Department containing allegations of corruption and mismanagement ? with documentary evidence ? against the principal of a midlands school, a group of concerned parents are furious that no action has been taken.
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Manufacturing, construction, founder; prices rise

By ELLEN SIMON NEW YORK (AP) -- Dark clouds continue to hang over the economy: The manufacturing sector shrank for the fourth consecutive month, construction spending has been falling for more than two years, future orders are down and prices are skyrocketing.
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Botswana: Food for the Soul - Soaring Food Prices: The Negative Impact On Nutrition

In the last few weeks, months and even years in fact, the world has been experiencing sky rocketing increases in price of most foodstuffs. Sad to say some countries even had riots over this.
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Variety of resources available for baby boomers as they face rising health care costs

As with gas and food prices, so goes the cost of prescription drugs.
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Manufacturing and construction shrink, but exports and government spending keep economy afloat

NEW YORK - Dark clouds continue to hang over the economy: The manufacturing sector shrank for the fourth consecutive month, construction spending has been falling for more than two years, future orders are down and prices are skyrocketing.
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Cameroon: Confusing Statistics

Well, we are told that telephone tariffs dropped by between 10 and 90 per cent beginning yesterday. What a wide range! The question many people are asking now is what to do to benefit from the 90 per cent reduction.
From: allafrica.com

End for cheaper holidays as surcharges increase and euro powers ahead

Northern Ireland families hoping to escape the credit crunch by taking a hard-earned summer break face double trouble as a combination of fuel surcharges and a strong euro pushed the cost of the annual holiday up dramatically.
From: www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Bedford businessman Malott loved a good barbecue

BEDFORD ? For fans of Margaret Mitchell?s ?Gone with the Wind,? the coming of June excites the taste buds. Summer was a time for barbecues, picnics and parties. Although summer barbecues are associated with the South, these gatherings were also popular north of the Mason-Dixon Line.
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Rising Cost of Food Is Dependent on More Than Demand, Supply

All over the world, prices for basic foods -barley for beer, milk for cheese, corn for tortillas, and the rice that serves as a staple for more than half the world?s population -are soaring. But farmers aren?t rushing to cash in on the boom by planting more of the crops.
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Gold futures rebound on weaker dollar, crude rise

NEW YORK 05/30/08 - Gold prices rebounded Friday after the dollar weakened and crude oil rose modestly - inflationary moves that pointed investors to the relative safety of precious metals.
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Md. Church Offers Gas For 50 Cents Less Than Average

In an effort to curb the pain at the pump, many business, such as hotels and car dealers, have begun offering cheap or free gas. But, even churches have begun to capitalize on the approach, pairing gas with the word of God.
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Scooter sales zoom as drivers look for cheaper ways to get around

LYNNWOOD -- When fuel prices get tough, the tough get scooting. Woody Robinett has a Toyota Tacoma pickup truck, which is useful for hauling everything from groceries to furniture. But the Tacoma gets about 22 miles per gallon, which hurts with gasoline prices well above $4 a gallon.
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The Spending Trap Fancy baby stroller, $900; family outings, priceless

Parents in all income brackets have the shaky economy on their minds, but in this spendy era of the $900 baby stroller and the ultra-birthday party, are they resisting the urge to splurge on their kids?
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In Brazil, sugar-cane ethanol is booming

BY JACK CHANG Just a decade ago, the giant Moema ethanol and sugar mill in this corner of southeastern Brazil covered less than half of its current 173,000 acres. It produced mainly sugar.
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Feeling at home: Extended-stay suites just right for some guests

NORMAL -- Dave and Lisa Davis make themselves comfortable around the kitchen, work space and living room.
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Prep before you paint

You?ve found the perfect color for your house. The paint, brushes and rollers are loaded in your car. Even the weather is cooperating. A day of painting beckons.
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County to go shopping for a cheaper 911 provider

When 911 emergency telephone service first came to Tippecanoe County in January 1992, GTE -- now called Verizon Communications -- was the sole provider available.
From: www.jconline.com