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...that are not faring well in this economic downturn. Wal-mart, on the other hand, does better with sales of food and nondiscretionary items, which continue to perform solidly. The mega-store is going back to its roots, marketing itself as the place to get the best deals on everyday items. Its February same-store sales were up 2.6% compared to last year. Who wouldn't want to pay less for light bulbs and pens...
...records in 1998. "With paper, what's to stop the night janitor or front desk clerk from reading your record?" Morrow says. "Our charts all require passwords to limit access." Plus, Morrow adds, with Allscripts, which gives health-care providers online access to records and enables them to automate everyday tasks such as billing, scheduling and writing prescriptions and patient charts, the practice saves as much as $33 per patient visit and has all but eliminated overtime for its physicians and nurses. "It's time for doctors to stop crying and whining and just do this," Morrow says. "Because ultimately...
...play in the MLL and NLL, so it helps the kids buy into what I am teaching them,” he observed. “Because these things have been successful for me over the years, it offers some validity to what I teach them everyday...
...basic premise of musique concrète is to make music that combines “real” sounds recorded in the everyday world with tape effects to create a dense, atmospheric work of art. The related discipline of electroacoustic music often involves a live performer, but they are simply one part of the mix alongside the pre-recorded sounds. New playing techniques and strange harmonies are blended in to stretch the music even further. Melodies and rhythms are buried deep and are often extremely difficult to find. In short, this is not the music you will be tested...
...fictional characters fared spectacularly well amid the uncertainty that followed 9/11. One was Harry Potter, whose adventures at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in Scotland provided an exhilarating escape for millions of children, and not a few parents. The other was Precious Ramotswe, whose everyday adventures as boss of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency in Botswana provided a reassuring escape for millions of adults, and not a few children. Sales of both novel series soared into the tens of millions, making Edinburgh, where J.K. Rowling and Alexander McCall Smith both write, a cradle of superstar authors...