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Financial incentives are the latest wellness craze, inspiring at least some of the nearly two-thirds of Americans who are overweight or obese to try to ditch their potato chips. A few years ago, in an effort to cut overall health care costs, companies started dangling gift cards, free cruises and even cash prizes to employees who shed excess pounds. Now an independent website is offering to pay anyone who drops a certain amount of weight over the course of a year. (See the top 10 new diet books...
...hopeful outcome of the saga is that, thanks to the swift action of passengers on Flight 253, Abdulmutallab was captured alive and is being held at a federal facility southwest of Detroit, where he may well prove to be a source of intelligence. It was an unexpected but valuable gift from those who moved quickly on an otherwise quiet Christmas morning...
...course, in an impoverished nation where aid organizations provide food aid to some six million people, the Western notion of a gift-giving holiday does not translate very well, particularly after Kim Jong Il's regime effectively stripped most of the nation of any personal savings three weeks ago. Each year underground worshippers in North Korea receive an array of presents from the outside world, including foreign-made clothes and candy, smuggled in by defectors like Jeong...
Nevertheless, many shoppers have been procrastinating in the hopes of scoring lalst-minute gifts at bargain-basement prices. As of mid-December, the average consumer had completed only 46.7% of their holiday shopping, according to a survey conducted by BIGresearch for the National Retail Federation. This was down considerably from the 54% who had finished their gift-buying at the same time in 2005 through 2007, says Kathy Grannis, a spokesman for the NRF. According to the survey, about 42 million people, or 19.1%, had not even started their shopping as of Dec. 16 while only 8.6% had finished...
...blood - and even worse publicity - is certainly the Christmas gift from hell for Eurostar. And the beneficiaries may be the beleaguered airline industry. Can the airlines take advantage of the anger to reclaim part of the England-France market share they've lost to the train service over the years? Five years ago, Eurostar accounted for just 45% of the travel between the countries; now, the figure stands...