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...average tax refund through April has been $2,683, according to the IRS. That's up 13% from one year ago and constitutes a pretty healthy onetime fiscal shot in the arm for the typical family struggling during this recession...
...consumer will almost certainly be forced psychologically, if GM fails as well, to purchase automobiles only from companies which are viewed as financially stable. That means that foreign car companies will have an even greater advantage than they do now. Chrysler lost 48% of its sales in April compared with the same month as last year. Domestic sales dropped 34% for the entire industry. It is probable that concerns about Chrysler's survival made potential customers anxious and contributed to its steeper decline. Many Americans are still do not understand how and why their warranties will be honored...
...week's global response - the travel advisories, the school closings, Mexico's move to all but shut down its capital city - may have helped reduce the extent of the disease's spread. It's easy to become inured to the CDC's unrelenting stream of advice on hygiene - on April 30, we actually had the President of the United States use a news conference to tell Americans to wash their hands more - but there is evidence that such elementary actions can be remarkably effective in slowing the spread of infectious disease. (Studies have shown that towns that instituted similar measures...
Italy has taken a more traditional route by boosting advertising. In April, the national tourism board launched a $13 million initiative called "Italia Much More" that seeks to lure tourists from the U.S., Canada and Europe with television commercials replete with dramatic opera music and sweeping aerial shots of Italy's landscapes. "The crisis is tangible for everyone and Italy will suffer," says Matteo Marzotto, the head of the National Tourism Board. "We're in the middle...
Your cover exclaims, "Vanishing Act: How Climate Change Is Causing a New Age of Extinction," but the article does not - and cannot - say that [April 13]. Climate change is mentioned only in passing, and the major causes of extinction are clearly shown to be deforestation and encroachment on habitat. The pictures in "10 Species on the Brink" show nine truly endangered species, then throw in the polar bear, which is 10 times as numerous as any other animal depicted, to try to make the climate-change link. An otherwise fine issue on extinction is thus marred by a gratuitous climate...