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...sell food and paper towels? "Sometimes the fence swings both ways," says Marshall Cohen, an analyst at the NPD Group. Consumers are willing to pay for convenience, say the experts, especially when grabbing items that they really need. "Is it a good idea? It's the only idea," says Howard Davidowitz, chairman of Davidowitz & Associates, a retail consultancy and investment bank. "Mothers are going to the store with their children, and to the extent you give mothers another reason to shop, you win. I compliment them for reacting. Doing nothing is not an acceptable answer." (See 10 things...
Last night, Howard A. Zucker, an Institute of Politics visiting fellow and the former assistant director-general of the World Health Organization, led an interactive question and answer session on modern health policy. “I don’t want this to have a lecture format,” Zucker said with a smile at the beginning of the session, who added that he preferred to encourage question-driven talk in order to address student perspectives and queries. Discussion ranged from global and national health policy issues to Zucker’s personal perspective in these fields...
...long stocks hold those positions in the face of the threat from H1N1 remains to be seen. The fact that shares hit hard early had regained lost ground Monday suggests markets had earlier "responded in the time honored fashion," says Howard Wheeldon, senior strategist at BGC Partners in London, namely with "a degree of overreaction...
...Howard Markel, director of the Center for the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan and a historical consultant to the CDC on flu pandemics, says the most vexing decision facing health officials is when to institute mass vaccination programs. Vaccines carry risks of complications, leading to agonizing ethical dilemmas. In 1976, Ford offered indemnity to the vaccine manufacturers. But according to reports, President George W. Bush decided in 2002 not to administer a nationwide smallpox vaccination program - despite Vice President Dick Cheney's belief that doing so was a prudent counterterrorism step - because it could have resulted...
...editor at large Nancy Gibbs and designed and produced by deputy art director D.W. Pine and deputy photo editor Dietmar Liz-Lepiorz, we wanted to get away from the media hot zones in New York City and Los Angeles and hear from people from around the country. News director Howard Chua-Eoan dispatched a dozen reporters to talk to autoworkers and salesmen, teachers and hairstylists, to get their own experiences in their own words. We talked to people not only in Rust Belt towns and cities that have been hit hard by the recession but also in places that have...