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...expect a little bit of everything. Sears has quadrupled the number of items in its sales flyer to 677 this year, from 165 last year. Power discounter Wal-Mart launched Operation Main Street, presenting a new round of markdowns every week until Christmas. Mattel will give a $50 Visa card to those who spend $100 on select Barbie toys. Sears and Radio Shack are urging eco-conscious consumers to dump their power-sucking old equipment, offering gift certificates for the trade-in value. Likewise, Staples offers $30 toward the purchase of a new camera or laptop for buyers who recycle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Black Friday Is Looking Blue | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

...tender falsetto before the guitars kick in and he sandblasts away at the melody. What Rose has to say - "A twist of fate, the change of heart kills my infatuation" etc. - is a bland list of romantic gripes that fail to diminish the song's impact one bit because it's how Rose sings that matters. Repeating the word better in the bridge, he spits the b's and drags his vocal cords across the r's until, out of meaninglessness, his meaning is unmistakable. Whether the anger is authentic is impossible to know, but it certainly is compelling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy, at Last | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

Doug Morrell had already installed solar panels on his house in Coopersville, Mich., but he was eager to get a little bit greener. So the 52-year-old Navy veteran bought something that might seem more at home in the Dutch countryside than in a small town in western Michigan: a personal wind turbine. The 33-ft.-high (10 m) machine, whose blades span 7 ft. (2 m) in diameter, sits next to the pole barn 100 yd. (90 m) from Morrell's home. (Turbines like Morrell's convert the energy of the wind to electricity, while old windmills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Got Wind? Turbines for the Green Home | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

...stay out of the penalty box because that’s been our cancer so far. Another thing that we’re concentrated on is a quick start. Cornell’s a real hostile environment. Maybe we can settle the crowd down a little bit if we score early...

Author: By Lucy D. Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Faces Off Against Long-Time Rival Cornell Tonight | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

...that makes them go,” Murphy said. “By virtue of how productive he is as a player, how inspirational he is as a captain and as a defensive playmaker, I think everybody around him…[walks] a little bit taller.”To begin attacking the problem of the league’s staunchest defense, Pizzotti will need to use a mix of young receivers and junior Matt Luft—as well as his height advantage—while keeping the D honest with occasional runs. The duo of junior Ben Jenkins...

Author: By Dennis J. Zheng, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: THE GAME '08: Clash of the Titans | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

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