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...enhanced product videos and 32.7% have included customer reviews to help shoppers make buying decisions, according to Shop.org's 2008 eHoliday Study, conducted by Shopzilla. Further, 8 in 10 retailers are offering some kind of free shipping option this season, often with a stipulation like a minimum purchase amount. Consumers are increasingly savvy about playing these options for maximum value. "They will bundle their purchases so they can combine shipping costs or go to sites that only offer free shipping," says Jeffrey Grau, senior analyst at eMarketer, which analyzes digital media...
...said. “There is a high likelihood that the budget in 2010 will not restore the cuts.” The North Cambridge Crime Task Force lost around $12,000 of state money from the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security, which amounts to a 25 percent reduction in salary for its 25-hour-a-week employee. While NCCTF can keep the employee until the end of the fiscal year, the part-time position will no longer be funded thereafter. Although the Cambridge Community Learning Center has only seen a small reduction in funding, the center...
...Taken together with the recent expansion of social welfare and amendments to the rural land law that will enable peasants to effectively lease out the right to use their land, the changes amount to a "New Deal with Chinese characteristics," JPMorgan economist Jing Ulrich wrote in a recent report. They also represent a political triumph for President Hu Jintao and his Premier, Wen Jiabao. The two men have been stressing the importance of measures aimed at relieving poverty in the countryside since coming to office in 2003. Until now, their efforts to enact concrete measures to back those promises have...
...current crisis and the fighting around it are apt to push more buttons than most. First, it is evocative. The Congolese town of Goma that is the center of the crisis was also where the world first had its clearest glimpse of the Rwanda atrocities. Secondly, a huge amount of the world's most important minerals, including one involved in the making of cellphones, emanate from the region and specifically from areas controlled by the combatants. (See pictures of the humanitarian disaster in Congo...
...continued, "When I'm writing books, something weird happens; and the result is the books contain a large amount of what you could call supernaturalism. As a writer I find I need that to explain the world I'm writing about. As a person I don't need it and as person I do. I would agree, that tension is irreconcilable. [But] it's just there. It's just...