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Coronavirus And The Problem With Cheap Sausages

Advertising has us convinced that cheap meat is something we can’t live without. But the meat industry is based on exploiting both people and animals.

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Economy Society

In Germany, My Big Fat Second-Hand Wedding

A crafty entrepreneur is bringing the canceled wedding market to Germany, where brides and grooms are embracing new ways to save tons of cash off the leftovers of altar breakups.

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Cheap And Chic: A Boom In Designer Budget Hotels

The hotel’s location is practical, in one of the most sought-after areas of Edinburgh: just steps away from the railroad station, with the Old Town and Princes Street shopping only close by. Old and imposing on the outside, inside it’s all modern, minimalist, and even a little Scottish. Chairs in the reception area are upholstered […]

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Food / Travel Society

Protest In A Pita: Bargain Falafels Help Israeli Middle Class Stave Off Crisis

TEL AVIV — The Israeli middle class is tired of paying a full hour’s salary for a few bites of street food — and the market is reacting. Cofix, a leading coffee to-go chain, broke all the rules and came up with the symbolic price of 5 shekels ($1.40) for either a cup of coffee, […]

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Food / Travel

Slow Travel, Cheap Travel – A Low-Cost Honeymoon To Conquer The World

VERONA — One honeymoon. 90,000 kilometers. 321 days. Two rules: 1) never take an airplane, and 2) never pay more than 15 euros for a meal for two. Elisa Bocca, a 32-year-old interpreter, and Alessandro Bocca, a 37-year-old photographer, are the Italian stars of this global honeymoon. They travelled through the United States, Mexico, South […]

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The Smart Global Strategy Driving The Coming Cheap iPhone

At the end of this year, when Apple’s cheap iPhone comes out, it is going to be amusing to listen to all the Apple fans who consoled themselves about Apple’s loss of market share by dismissing competitors’ phones as “cheap plastic crap.” Because the new cheap iPhone is supposed to have a cheap plastic back. […]

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