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...then there's Microsoft's X-Box, Nintendo's Game Cube, Apple's iPod, and (according to the Wall Street Journal, anyway) disco-era throwback Shrinky Dinks, which sentimental boomers are apparently trying to pass on to their kids. And there's always this year's batch of "must-own" DVDs of didn't-need-to-see movies, the kind of stocking stuffer that tends to pile up in shoppers' hands (and on their credit-card bills). Maybe all retailers will need this Christmas is a few hot "magnet" items (sufficiently stocked) to get shoppers into the stores...
...question of the Voting Rights Act’s extent is a major one in this year’s batch of redistricting, according to Gerken...
...actually are pursuing a particular deal. Journalists are asked to reveal the stories they are going to cover. One agent will ask questions for a while, then a second will ask many of the same. The two will compare notes, and one or the other will ask a third batch of queries. This process often takes 20 minutes; it can take two hours...
...first week of September, Microsoft officials will watch proudly as the first batch of Xbox game machines begins rolling off seven 280-ft.-long assembly lines at a new industrial park outside Guadalajara, Mexico. There may not be any Frisbees flying around, but the 124 landscaped acres could be any Microsoft campus back in Washington State. There is a screening room larger than the local movie theater and a cafeteria that includes a steak grill and a sushi bar (lunch price: $3)--all crowned by a glass-and-stone headquarters. Inside Building 12, engineers are working to make sure that...
This week, the U.S. Bureau of Census released a batch of statistics that demographers and social scientists find fascinating. According to the numbers from last year?s population count, about one in five Americans don?t speak English at home, over 2 million grandparents are raising their grandchildren, and the number of adults working out of the homes has grown by a third the past ten years...