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...company in retail - the country's second largest industry, employing some 25 million Americans - those are about the most depressing words you can hear. And millions of Americans are now on the same page. Consider Maria Calderon, a single mother of two in Greenacres, Fla., who works for the Palm Beach County public defender's office. Two months ago, she lost a second, part-time job that had helped pay the bills. She soon surrendered to the gods of credit-card debt. She visited a West Palm Beach credit-counseling service to deal with some $20,000 in unpaid bills...
Some churches' sites, like that of Flamingo Road Church in Cooper City, Fla., receive regular traffic year-round. Others, like the one from Impact Community Church in Elk Grove, Calif., draw visitors with specific sermon topics. Barry Smith, senior pastor at Impact, started an online confession board last spring to enhance his four-week sermon series on the theme of secrets. The idea, says Smith, "was not so much theological as psychological"--a way to aid people carrying the shame of long-held secrets. For at least two of his congregants, the effort was transformative. A former prison guard...
...Your cover is a direct insult to those who lived through the Depression. If we can still spend $300 on an iPod, times can't be so bad. Yes, the economy is slowing, but not as severely as TIME has illustrated. John Nicoletti, NAPLES, FLA...
Doctors recommend that prepubescent kids not have any caffeine, and yet caffeinated candies and gums and chips have strong appeal for kids. Earlier this year, four middle-school boys in Broward County, Fla., had to go to the hospital after drinking energy drinks. The boys were sweating so much that school officials thought they might be having heart attacks...
Frequent Flying. British Airways adds daily service to Venice, Italy, from Heathrow's Terminal 5, starting Oct. 26. JetBlue will offer daily service from Orlando, Fla., to Bogotá, Columbia, with fares beginning at $99 one-way, starting Jan. 29, 2009. Emirates' flight on its A380 from JFK to Dubai goes from three times a week to daily starting...