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...better hope Santa is good to them. Even before a single retail site burst online, America had too many retail stores. By 2000, it also had too many e-tail stores. Result: shuttered sites, struggling shops and shredded profits across the sector. Poor performance by such companies as the Gap, Nordstrom and J.C. Penney added to the dotcom carnage in the stock market. And new worries that consumer spending is slowing, presaging a recession, have made this Christmas the most critical in years...
This sort of gender gap is glaring and growing at campuses across America. Until 1979, men made up the majority of college students. As women won increasing equality elsewhere in society, it was natural and expected that they would reach parity in college, which they did by the early 1980s. But the surprise has been that men's enrollment in higher education has declined since 1992. Males now make up just 44% of undergraduate students nationwide. And federal projections show their share shrinking to as little as 42% by 2010. This trend is among the hottest topics of debate among...
Music cred advertisers of the season: the Gap, who give Badly Drawn Boy badly needed publicity by using the BDB song "The Shining" on a commercial. Brilliant. Other ads feature slo-core faves Low, as well the Red House Painters and the Dandy Warhols. Like I said, cred...
...York Times, show that "American children continue to learn - but their peers in other countries are learning at a higher rate." Rita Colwell, director of the National Science Foundation, maintains the results simply indicate a need to look deeper for solutions to the international math and science gap. According to the Times, however, Colwell does admit she finds the recent study "a little depressing...
They say the exam is biased, focuses on trivial and confusing questions, takes too much class time to administer and only widens the achievement gap between low- and high-income students...