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Jamba Juice It's not a great time to sell discretionary items. It's an even worse time to sell very discretionary items. Do you really need that fruit smoothie? Apparently not: Jamba Juice, the fruit-drink chain, lost $108 million in the first 40 weeks of 2008, compared with a $36.7 million profit during the same period in 2007. Same-store sales dipped 7.2%. In December, Jamba stopped shipping ready-to-drink smoothies to grocery stores because of production difficulties. "They still don't know who their core customer is," says Brian Moore, an analyst at Wedbush Morgan. "They...
...ability of stem cells and reprogramming science to provide that cure is far from guaranteed. But his initial confidence in the power of the technology hasn't waned. "Everything we learned about stem cells tells us this was a really powerful approach," he says. "It would be a great shame if we let it wither and just go away." Melton, for one, is determined not to let that happen...
...first names also say a great deal about the extent of privilege enjoyed by the people who picked those names for us, our parents. In the new paper, Kalist and Lee point out that previous research has shown that the name Allison is rarely given to girls whose mothers didn't finish high school but is frequently given to girls whose mothers have 17 years or more of schooling. On average, parents with less schooling are likelier to pick unpopular names for their kids. (See pictures of a diverse group of American teens...
...your own look.'" Having slum children play two of the three 6-year-olds meant shooting their scenes in Hindi. But as Boyle says, "Nobody comes out of the film saying, 'I just watched a subtitled film.' They just say, 'Weren't those kids great...
...what if you made a great movie and nobody saw it? When Warner Bros. (which is owned by TIME's parent company, Time Warner) folded its "indie" arm last year, Slumdog was suddenly without a U.S. distributor, and producer Christian Colson was told the film would be shelved. The parent company could have just sat on it--as Colson explains the industry logic, "It's better to let a film die than to have someone else turn it into a big hit"--but Warner Bros. "did the right thing" and let Colson show it to other indies. "Fortunately and extraordinarily...