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...Hyatt acted faster and gone pubic in 2007 or even mid-2008, before the bubble burst, valuations would likely be much higher, says Butler. "The hotel world fell off a cliff on Labor Day 2008 - the world truly changed in terms of values, liquidity, banking - all of the factors that are critical to valuation," he says...
...Target's traditional strengths, gets a prominent position at the center. The color palettes of the shirts and dresses are brighter and more appealing than they've been in the past. "Walmart has figured out fashion for the first time in 47 years," Flickinger says. "They've gone from a D to an A-minus." Briefs and underwear have been shuttled to the back. "That's a smart move," Flickinger says. "People know to come to Walmart for the commodity clothing. Now, they have to walk past the higher margin, more fashionable merchandise to get what they need...
...epidemiologists had been able to pick up those early media reports about SARS, the disease might not have gone on to kill nearly 800 people. That's one of the reasons researchers at Children's Hospital Boston, together with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, developed HealthMap, a website that mines more than 30,000 data sources - including news media and government alerts - and puts them on a Google Map to show where outbreaks are occurring, in real time. Whether it's measles in Sussex, foot-and-mouth disease in Taiwan or avian flu in Indonesia, as reports...
...Waterboarding seemed to be the term in circulation, and I think it's something that many people do not understand in terms of what it physically looks like," says Skier, the play's director and writer who sought training from someone who had gone through Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE), a U.S. program that trains troops to withstand torture...
...best, according to diplomats in East Asia, it means the North's diplomatic price for any kind of agreement has probably gone up. At worst, it may mean what pessimists about the North have long been saying: that Pyongyang, under this regime, anyway, has no intention of ever giving up its nukes. The North's "strategic goal," says Park Hyong Joong of Seoul's Korea Institute for National Unification, is to be accepted as a nuclear power...