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...more for optimists. On May 27, WSL Strategic Retail, a highly respected consulting firm, released its latest "How America Shops" survey. The company found that in 19 of the 32 spending categories it tracks, fewer consumers are cutting purchases now than they were a year ago. For example, last year 58% of the survey's respondents said they were cutting back on purchases of frozen food. Now only 34% said they were spending less on those items. Last year, 41% of consumers said they were cutting back on cereal. That figure has now dipped to 26%. (See pictures...
...interaction, with TV affecting both children and their parents, and the parents' detachment further impairing their children. For the first time, Christakis' group even quantified exactly the degree to which TV-viewing can cripple parent-child communication: for every hour a television was turned on, babies heard 770 fewer words from an adult, the new study found. Conversational exchanges between baby and parent dropped 15%, as did the overall number of vocalizations made by children...
...drugs, and those it rejects are rarely life-saving. But it has turned down some expensive treatments that prolong life - most notoriously, the kidney cancer drug Sutent in 2008 - angering patients and oncologists. The organization has since promised to approve more expensive life-saving drugs for illnesses affecting fewer than 7,000 patients a year. Rawlins concedes that NICE is "muddling through" uncharted waters: "The biggest lesson we've learned is to be open and transparent. But you have to be willing to make difficult decisions...
...victory. Senior forward Tami Jafar also buoyed the Harvard attack, chipping in five scores on the season. Keating added four goals, including three game-winners. The defense was anchored by Stone’s superlative play in net. Stone, the team MVP, held seven opponents to one goal or fewer, including shutouts against Holy Cross, Yale, Brown, and Saint Louis. Her 43 saves and 1.71 goals-against average were both second best in the league against Ivy opponents Two talented freshmen were the only Crimson players to earn league honors. Dickson was named to the All-Ivy First Team...
...diverse cross-section of the industry, from newspaper editors and photographers to multimedia reporters and radio journalists. This year’s class included the largest proportion of freelance journalists in the 72-year history of the fellowship. “The selection of more freelance journalists and fewer newspaper reporters reflects the changing nature of journalism,” said Nieman Foundation Curator Robert H. Giles. A number of fellowship recipients had recently repositioned themselves by leaving broadcast or newspaper journalism for the freelance sector, Giles said. Newspaper reporters, he said, may not have turned out for the fellowship...