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...most of their money on jewelry," notes John Rowan, an analyst at Sidoti & Co. He says the three publicly traded pawnshop companies - Cash America International, EZCorp and First Cash Financial Services - generated earnings that outperformed many other companies in the financial-services sector over the past year and a half. "They didn't crater like other industries did throughout the recession," says Rowan...
...That's an up-in-the-air question now," concedes Ogden. Dietz is a bit more optimistic, saying the saturation theory does not hold up because children and adults have plateaued at such different points. "You can't argue that adults will saturate at one rate and kids at half that rate," he says. (Watch TIME's video about exercising with a hula hoop...
...have engaged in a little collegiate money laundering. According to a recent investigative report in The Stanford Review based on The Daily’s IRS Form 990, the publication declared a cash balance of $517,022 in 2008 and then proceeded to transfer more than half the money to a subsidiary non-profit organization called The Friends of The Daily Foundation in order to simulate an $80,408 deficit. With the apparent deficit, The Daily then applied for and was granted $50,000 in student fees from the Stanford Student Senate, which had no idea about the large...
...problem," he says. "We're doing it to raise global awareness of what good is coming out of China. [The government is] looking at this as the branding of the new China: red China going green." Participating bands will be donating their time, and half of all money raised will be funneled into global projects dedicated to promoting peace and protecting the environment. The slogan on the concert's website encapsulates Garson's oft-repeated objectives: Peace = Green + No War + Water + Food + Health + Education. (See pictures of the making of modern China...
...parallels end there. Although bin Laden saw plenty of Western culture in his youth, he seems to have been profoundly uncomfortable with it. Not so al-Awlaki. Now 38, he has lived in the West for more than half his life, speaks fluent English and peppers his sermons with references to Western places and people. A recent lecture on death, for instance, was informed by an old Michael Jackson interview in which the singer said he wanted to "live forever." Hard to imagine bin Laden referring to the King of Pop in a sermon...