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...store-sales growth throughout 2008 - and in November, global sales rose 7.7% over 2007 (sales jumped 4.5% in the U.S.). In fact, the company's sales have increased for 55 straight months. Profits grew 11%, to $1.2 billion, in the third quarter of 2008 (the company will report its fourth-quarter results on Jan. 26). McDonald's and Walmart were the only two companies in the Dow Jones industrial average whose share prices rose during 2008. Merrill Lynch, which rates McDonald's a "buy," said in a research report that the stock is "in a world...
Yale professor Elizabeth Alexander will be the fourth poet ever to read at a presidential Inauguration. Alexander spoke to TIME about poetry's place in American life, her kids' fundraising efforts on behalf of Barack Obama and the challenge of writing poetry on a deadline. (See pictures of the best Obama Inaugural merchandise...
...Hanniger (Jensen Ackles), who was Sarah's beau back in the previously awful day. To secure an R rating, the film has halved corpses, a fetus eviscerated from its victim's body and, possibly a first, a major role (local party girl Irene, played by the fourth-billed Kelly Rue) that requires humping, fleeing and screaming, performed entirely in the nude except for high heels...
...Issuing pink slips en masse is a political nonstarter in India, and it's even less likely to happen in an election year. With India's flagship information-technology sector under global scrutiny, the government looks keen to salvage Hyderabad-based Satyam, the country's fourth-largest outsourcing company. "I am pretty sure the employees are on safe terrain," says James Agarwal, head of executive-search firm BTI Consultants India. "There is no chance the government will allow the company to go down. It is important for employees, for Indian corporates, for the government." (See pictures of the global financial...
Bugging Out. If you think those skittering roaches in your apartment are speedy, corral 'em and take them Down Under for the Story Bridge Hotel's annual Cockroach Racing World Championships in Brisbane. The race, in honor of Australia Day, which is like Americans' Fourth of July, takes place on Jan. 26. Bring your own cockroaches or purchase one from the hotel. (Hmm, I wonder how they have so many to sell...