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...Whatever happens, Sea the Stars' success has brought out the best in sport. Racehorses aren't rewarded for their efforts with sneaker contracts and salary hikes. In an age of gazillionaire baseball players and soccer stars, a competitor that races for nothing other than a win lifts the image of sport and the spirit of fans. It's what made Seabiscuit so popular during the Depression - and what makes Sea the Stars so illustrious...
...difference. The other way to explain it is that the other finding didn't apply to the overall population - it just applied to the elderly, who for a variety of reasons, including improved care, appear to thrive during a downturn. The aggregate may be driven by these elderly, who aren't in the labor market and aren't affected by changes in earnings...
...surprising set of items are helping spur the growth of Dollar Tree, the super-duper discount chain where every item actually sells for a buck or less. We're talking about party supplies: everything from plates to wrapping paper to favors. During an economic crisis, aren't people supposed to be slouching on their couches, rather than honking on noisemakers? Apparently not. "This says a lot about the American consumer," says Timothy Reid, Dollar Tree's vice president of investor relations. "They want to keep enjoying and living their lives, but do so in a way that's cost-effective...
...offices and factories aren't the only places where eating habits can go awry. Experts are realizing that it takes the collaboration of an entire community--from employers to school districts to food retailers--to help families learn to cook and eat healthy meals at home instead of getting dinner handed to them through a car window. "It's not just about telling people what they should do, but making it easier for them to do it," says Dr. David Katz, director and co-founder of the Yale University Prevention Research Center...
Novelists love twins--evil twins, vanishing twins, incestuous twins, conjoined twins, spooky dead-little-girl twins. We make handy symbols for any writer who feels inclined to muse on the nature of human identity, which is basically every writer ever. But twins aren't symbols; they're people. There are not, to my knowledge, any great identical-twin novelists (though I think John Barth has a twin sister), and I have never yet read a fictional account of twinness that I found convincing, with one exception: Darin Strauss's excellent Chang and Eng, about Barnum & Bailey's famous Siamese twins...