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...saying they will spend half their shopping budget on the Web, up from 32% last year, according to a Nielsen Online survey. But overall budgets have shrunk, as tapped-out consumers have grown increasingly anxious about the economy. As a result, people are trading down in the stores they frequent and the number of items they buy. Case in point: the most popular product seen on BlackFriday.info's shopping lists was Wal-Mart's Batman and Spider-Man pajama sets, requested on more than 10,000 lists. The price: a mere...
...order, above all, is what the Chinese government is concerned about. Episodes like the one at Kai Da have become jarringly frequent in southern China in recent months, and the NDRC's Zhang, in a press conference yesterday in Beijing, made the government's nervousness plain. The central government is pressuring provincial authorities to make sure that employers pay severance according to the law, and in cases when they don't, to step in and pay the workers themselves. (Several provincial governments, according to Chinese press reports, have in turn complained that they don't have the funds to make...
...arsenal: grenades, AK-47s, rifles and a car bomb in a taxi that exploded on the highway headed to the city's international airport. And unlike previous attacks, which have hit mainly Indians in popular, crowded markets, this one appeared to have targeted foreigners and the posh hotels they frequent. Two of the city's landmark properties - the Oberoi and the Taj Hotel - were under siege. The grand dome of the Taj caught fire, masked in a purple haze, after terrorists set off an explosion on the roof as police closed in on them. About 300 troops, sent...
...best indicator of progress is a declining death rate. But while the falling incidence rate suggests successful efforts at prevention, the real reasons behind the trend are not as clear-cut. Decreasing cancer rates may reflect a real reduction in cancer; they may also be a result of more frequent and effective screening, which can catch and cure pre-cancer, or they may reflect less frequent use of screens overall...
...inevitability of this year’s disappointment is prefigured by an enormous body of pep-rally (non-)history. Unlucky weather, New England’s perennial deus ex machina, has played a frequent role. In 1994, a much-ballyhooed bonfire in the MAC quad was rained upon, and went unattended by many of its organizers. Last year, the rally was driven inside the Queen’s Head Pub by rain, where it unfurled as an apparent mixed bag. In 2006, Fun Czar emeritus John T. Drake ’06 cancelled the event—again, because...