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...beyond, but with a focus on storewide sales rather than individual door-buster specials. FigLeaves.com started out with up to 50% off storewide sales and increased it to 70% in anticipation of Cyber Monday. Amazon.com has already taken as much as 65% off prices for kitchen appliances and household items. "There is more breadth of merchandise on sale for Cyber Monday," says Sucharita Mulpuru, principal analyst of e-business retail at Forrester Research. "Whereas Black Friday is limited to an assortment of items that are high-velocity drivers...
...City's rivers - and shipped to the South, all in the name of food storage. In the 1840s, a Florida physician named John Gorrie, trying to cool the rooms where patients were suffering from yellow fever, figured out how to make ice using mechanical refrigeration, paving the way for household refrigerators that appeared in American homes en masse in the 1920s and 1930s. It wasn't a moment too soon. As families struggled to feed their children during the Great Depression, it was unthinkable to throw away leftovers...
...Already, some 20 retailers have sought bankruptcy protection this year, with such household names as Circuit City, Steve & Barry's, Linens 'n Things and Mervyns going under. Of those four, only Circuit City is attempting to restructure its business, closing 155 stores by the end of the year in an effort to emerge as a leaner operation. The other three plan to liquidate altogether, a trend that is on the rise as a result of the lack of potential buyers for troubled assets and a tightening of credit offerings by banks. "The days of restructuring are gone," says Howard Davidowitz...
...cadence and narrative structure of the Ibo language, and the characters’ lives revolve around priorities informed by Umuofian values. This blurring of boundaries is to be expected from Achebe, who was born in a Nigerian village to Protestant parents. Though he came of age in a Christian household, Achebe was surrounded by manifestations of traditional Nigerian religions and practices. Achebe’s first name at birth was “Albert,” which he dropped when he developed an academic interest in Nigerian culture during college.The ability of “Things Fall Apart?...
...tall. For homeowners seeking renewable-energy sources, however, better-known solar power has always dominated. Home solar power currently generates 12 times as much energy as small wind power, which is defined as turbines that have a capacity of 100 kW or less (though most household turbines will produce 10 kW at most). That's partly because residential wind turbines require space and sky - at least half an acre of open land - to get access to consistent winds. Still, according to the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), some 15 million homes in the U.S. fit that definition - and small turbines...