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...more people feel comfortable making purchases online, Web retailers expect to draw a rising share of holiday purchases. But with the credit crunch and financial meltdown contributing to the massive pullback in spending, will Cyber Monday be an Internet boom or bust? "I would say bust," says Jon Vincent, founder of BlackFriday.info, an online-deal site. Analyst Ken Cassar of Nielsen Online is little more optimistic. "Cyber Monday will likely be disappointing," he says...
Still, those numbers are just a portion of the overall foreclosures in South Florida. Peter Zalewski, founder of Condo Vultures, projects that nearly 75,000 properties in the tri-county area will slip into foreclosure this year, up from 33,154 last year...
...offering exercises in critical thinking, ethical decision making, "assessing team dynamics" and "community asset mapping." Is Juliette Low rolling in her grave as camps close down to make way for jazzier Web content and global networking? Lee Ann Maley, a Girl Scout executive in South Carolina, believes that the founder would approve of the new model of assertive girlhood. "We're doing more with science, technology, engineering and math," Maley says. "I think Juliette Low would be standing up and blowing her horn - the girls...
...court convictions SmartWater says it has secured so far - a fairly modest number for a company that has been around since 1995. But that's not counting those who simply come clean when the UV light finds them out, says former police detective Phil Cleary, SmartWater's co-founder and ceo. In any case, he says: "We are not a thief-catching company or a property-recovery company; we're selling a deterrent...
...delivers potted trees for a holiday rental. A little after New Year's, workers pick them up and deliver them to parks, schools and other institutions that pay $10 to have a tree planted on their property. "We're set to do over 400 trees this year," says founder John Fogel. "I want people to feel good about [live] trees...