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...people for real? Unemployment is high, gas prices are astronomical, and food prices are climbing, and what do you offer as an article but a report on $40 bottled water and $145 a bottle vinegar [April 14]. Honestly! Going out for us is lunch at a chain restaurant using coupons, and that doesn't happen often. We buy our clothes at Goodwill and discount stores. That $120 spent on a single beer could have provided a family of four with food for a week. Why not do something that will make you feel a whole lot better: donate the money...
Though I had even higher aspirations, apparently my mom was so impressed with my graduation from sixth grade that she bought me a gift: an incredibly cool gold-chain necklace. The chain said to all who saw it, Sure, I may look like an honor student who is bad at sports and gets stomachaches before parties, but I am actually capable of horrific violence, passionate lovemaking and savage indifference to a tribe of orcs with my +2 broadsword. I wore that chain every day, from sixth grade to 17th grade, when my new girlfriend told me I had to take...
...That chain still means a lot to me, symbolizing my triumphs against adversity, which include getting a job in journalism while wearing a gold chain. But lately I've been looking at that chain differently. With gold climbing from $275 an ounce in 2000 to an all-time high of more than $1,000 earlier this year, late-night commercials for companies like Cash4Gold--the 271st fastest-growing company in the country according to Inc. magazine and the most embarrassingly named company according to this one--are asking me to mail in my gold for cash. My chain, in these...
...Nevertheless, they maintain a wall of comics at the back of the store that gets refreshed and reorganized every week.“The owners take comics as part of our history,” says Erik J. Scott, the employee in charge of maintaining the comics section. The chain started 30 years ago, when two Boston-area comics fans named John Brusger and Mike Dreese started a small comics shop.The chain’s priorities have changed since then, but comics remain on the racks. Herein lies another economic mystery: why keep selling comics when specialty shops with more...
...dose and only having to be administered once—have stagnated at around 50 percent in sub-Saharan Africa since its introduction in the 1970s. Efforts to introduce more complex treatments, including AIDS treatment, encountered the same implementation bottlenecks: a lack of human resources, physical infrastructure, supply chain capacity and managerial oversight...