Word: holidaying
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...researcher from Cardiff University, that the third Monday of the month (Jan. 21, this year) - a day he calls Blue Monday - will be our most depressing day of the year. Arnall bases his yearly prediction on a formula he developed, which factors in the weather, consumer debt from holiday spending and failed New Year's resolutions and arrives at that conclusion that we'll hit rock bottom on Monday the 21st. Aside from the fact that Arnall's theory has been discounted by many in the academic community, I've got a better way of finding the true nadir...
...popular searches sending traffic to the 5,900 sites that we track in the Hitwise Health and Medical category - but the peak is not in January. According to our Internet behavior, our depression spikes reliably in mid-November every year, right in time for Thanksgiving, the launch of the holiday season...
...last three years, a very interesting pattern emerges. The spike in traffic to the official websites for drugs like Lexapro, Prozac, Paxil and Cymbalta occurs in late October and early November, two weeks ahead of the height in searches on "depression." It's almost as if people anticipate their holiday depression and start shopping early for their drug of choice...
...estimated 120,000 jobs will be lost in Mombasa between now and March 2008, according to the Kenya Tourist Board; 80% of the town's residents rely on tourism for work. Mombasa is home to east Africa's largest port, and is traditionally a hub for holiday travel. But, with the decline in tourist arrivals, Kenya's national airline says that it will be forced to limit capacity on its domestic flights to cut costs. Flights from the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, to Mombasa will be reduced by 1,200 seats, according to Kenya Airways...
...surviving snippets of Burrell's life as butler to the world's most famous woman include six notes that Diana had written to him, a box of holiday snapshots from trips their families had taken together, and a lavender-colored spiral notebook in which he had jotted down descriptions of people and events and that "as far as I can see, adds nothing to the inquiry," Baker said as he admitted it all into evidence. Michael Mansfield, who represents Dodi's father, Harrods owner Mohamed Al-Fayed, wasn't so sure: "It may be what it doesn't disclose...