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Sentimental shoppers will have a lot to cry about in the coming months. With the merger last year between department-store chains Federated and May, 78 stores are going to close. But Macy's, with its name attached to more than 800 stores, will soon expand as big as a balloon in its Thanksgiving Day parade. The majority of the hometown retailers owned by May, including Marshall Field's, will be converted to the Macy's nameplate this fall, among them Kaufmann's in Pittsburgh, Pa.; Filene's in Boston; Strawbridge's in Philadelphia; Foley's in Houston; Famous-Barr...
President Bush says health savings accounts will expand medical coverage to the uninsured and help control soaring costs. But critics aren't so optimistic. Here's a primer on the key issues...
Will Congress expand HSAs? President Bush wants to raise contribution caps and expand eligibility. But the plan's tax benefits will already cost at least an estimated $92 billion in its first 10 years. Bush will argue that's a small price to pay for better and broader health care, but even a Republican Congress that agrees--and loves to create tax-free accounts--may hesitate to foot such a big bill...
...really very hard to tell people to think at work but not at home." CONDOLEEZZA RICE, U.S. Secretary of State, calling on China to expand its citizens' civil liberties...
...worked creatively with colleagues to expand opportunities for study abroad and to spur closer student-faculty engagement -- including a dramatic rise in freshman seminars and the advent of faculty-led junior seminars in several of the largest concentrations...