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...With temperatures simmering and families spending summer days at the shore, most customers aren't exactly in the Christmas spirit. So what convinced Sears, which has seen nothing but annual same-store sales declines at both its namesake and Kmart stores over the past four years, that skeptical shoppers want to open up their wallets for Christmas gifts now? "After the last holiday season, customers told us that they wish they had seen some of our merchandise earlier," says Natalie Norris-Howser, a Sears spokeswoman. "People are buying earlier today. Also, customers have grown accustomed to the Christmas-in-July...
...else entirely - for-profit health-care facilities owned by doctors that perform some of the most lucrative medical procedures in fields like orthopedics and cardiology. There are now some 220 such facilities operating mostly in the South and Midwest - up from 110 in 2001 - generating some $40 billion in annual revenue. According to Sandvig, more than 80 additional facilities are currently under development. (Read "Starting Health-Care Reform...
...Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Office of Community Planning and Development 168 pages...
There are few economic indicators as grim as homelessness, as the Department of Department of Housing and Urban Development demonstrates in its 4th annual report on the topic, which found that some 1.6 million Americans stayed at homeless shelters from October 2007 to September 2008. The Department also noticed some troubling trends: more families seeking shelter - particularly in rural and suburban areas - and more people going to shelters from stable living arrangements (instead of jails, institutional settings or the military...
...study, presented last year at the Cognitive Neuroscientist Society's annual meeting, psychologist and neuroscientist Helena Westerberg of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm compared the cognitive abilities of 45 young adults (average age 25) with those of 55 older adults (average age 65). She found that after five weeks of computerized training on tasks ranging from reproducing a series of light flashes to repeating digits in the opposite order that they were given, the older group was able to reach the same level of working memory, attention and reaction time that the younger group had at the outset. (Notably...