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...Allendale, New Jersey. "I can spend $4 and change for just one box and have it gone in less than a week." Since World War II, no food category has had more price increases than cereal, which easily outdistanced the rate of inflation for groceries (see chart). But consumers began balking in 1994, angered by relentless price hikes. Last year sales of cereal began to drop...
...Katarina Witt, but what did she lose?" says Wetter. "I see lots of adults in treatment who say, 'I never had a childhood. I wanted to be a doctor, so I spent all my time at the library doing a biology project, but I never played soccer.' " You can chart the arc of life today by visiting the psychology section of any bookstore, he says. "On the one side, you've got books on how to raise achieving, successful children. And across from that, you've got books for adults on how to overcome your depression and increase your self...
...sweet place to work have clogged its economic arteries. Call it Eurosclerosis--the combination of a staggering tax burden and a blanket of regulations that smother new businesses and entrepreneurship. Symptoms: Europe's unemployment rate of 11% is twice as high as the U.S.'s, and its job-creation chart is a flat line. Over the past three years, the U.S. has created 8.4 million new jobs, Europe none. Significantly, many of those new American jobs pay higher than average wages, and as many as 60% are managerial or professional...
Haynes would also like to see the College give students more "move-out" time at the end of the year and change the course guide to provide a chart of courses by day and time...
...marvel at how a society can function like an orchestra, each person playing his part while attending to a common score. A country with a sense of seasons has greater respect for the old, and a clearer sense of tomorrow. That is why newspapers in Japan that meticulously chart the dates on which the leaves will fall may be precious in not just the derogatory sense. And why a Japanese would understand why this most autumnal of meditations is being published at the very time when most of us--in the north, at least--are exulting in the first days...