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...love borne of desperation. Since Japan's bubble economy kerploded in the early '90s, every indicator has plunged relentlessly downward. The stock market hit a 16-year low earlier this year. Real estate prices have plunged so far that many homeowners are stuck in houses they bought at four times what they're worth today. Unemployment hit a post-war high of 4.9% last month, more than twice the rate in the 1980s. Terrified of losing their jobs, people are saving more and spending less, thus tightening the screws on retail businesses. City parks are haunted by homeless people. Suicides...
...them more susceptible to colds and other germs, and wearing glasses rather than contact lenses to ward off dry and itchy eyes. But don't expect the carriers to instigate change. "If airlines increased cabin humidity beyond the customary level, condensation inside the aircraft's interior walls would trickle downward after landing and eventually enter the plane's sensitive electronics system," says Luft-hansa's chief medical officer Lutz Bergau. "As a passenger, would you want that to happen?" As for space, the industry acknowledges it is possible to give economy-class passengers more room, but only for higher ticket...
...filtering process; but yoga in particular promotes the draining of the lymph. Certain yoga poses stretch muscles that from animal studies are known to stimulate the lymph system. Researchers have documented the increased lymph flow when dogs' paws are stretched in a position similar to the yoga "downward-facing...
...attempt to straighten the tower, builders try using thicker stones on the downward side...
...that could prove to be a dangerous game since jobless workers are hardly big spenders. "If you really scare consumers," Dudley says, "then you have this whole downward dynamic of job losses leading to lower consumption leading to more job losses." Concurs Shepherdson: "The next stage of getting consumer confidence substantially higher is going to be the struggle against the head wind of rising unemployment...