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...year that 10% to 26% of retailers were in financial distress and were in danger of filing for Chapter 11. It is worth considering how the researchers came up with that number, given that there are tens of thousands of retailers and hundreds of thousands of stores in America. Why wasn't the number 9% or 27%? The answer is that the forecast is virtually useless, something like counting the number of poisonous snakes in an Indiana Jones movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking Again at the Fate of the Retail Industry | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

...most influential Evangelicals in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Powerful People Overestimate Themselves | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

...might think that, in such circumstances, the birds’ senders would seek to mitigate harms. Instead, Bird Shippers of America, the industry group, employs a lobbyist in Washington to push for the repeal of the few restrictions that still exist on this trade in sentient beings...

Author: By Lewis E. Bollard | Title: Chicks in the Mail | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

...More recently, Bird Shippers of America launched a campaign against airlines that had qualms about shipping birds in the extreme heat or cold. In 2006, in a petition to Congress, the group noted with outrage that some airlines “refused shipments of day-old chicks when temperatures reach 85 degrees” and called for an end to this impediment, citing “the right to ship live birds...

Author: By Lewis E. Bollard | Title: Chicks in the Mail | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

...elections that changed America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Connecticut's Chris Dodd Faces a Backyard Rebellion | 3/9/2009 | See Source »

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