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Seasonally adjusted figures released by the Commerce Department on Friday show U.S. retail and food-services sales rose 0.3% from January and 3.9% from a year ago. If car and auto-part sales were excluded, the gain would be even bigger, 0.8% month-over-month and 4.2% year-over-year. (See 10 things to buy during the recession...
...Bacharan both believe that the fracas will add to the rising disappointment in Europe with the Obama Administration - but not much more than that. "Everyone would lose if this were to spread to commercial trade, and there also isn't much political gain pushing this much further than it has now," Bacharan says. "The anger is good theater to a domestic audience, but it would travel very poorly across the Atlantic." (Read "France's Boardrooms: Little Diversity...
Because alcohol is considered to be a substantial source of calories that can contribute to weight gain, these findings can be “counterintuitive,” said Lu Wang, the lead author and an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School...
...thirteen-year period, researchers concluded that, overall, the women who drank moderately showed significantly less weight gain than women who did not drink...
...where militants lobbying for a greater share of oil revenue regularly blow up pipelines and kidnap foreign oil workers. Andrew Kakabadse, professor of international management development at the U.K.-based Cranfield School of Management, says oil companies have at various times pitted ethnic factions against one another for economic gain. (See pictures of Lagos...