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...more for optimists. On May 27, WSL Strategic Retail, a highly respected consulting firm, released its latest "How America Shops" survey. The company found that in 19 of the 32 spending categories it tracks, fewer consumers are cutting purchases now than they were a year ago. For example, last year 58% of the survey's respondents said they were cutting back on purchases of frozen food. Now only 34% said they were spending less on those items. Last year, 41% of consumers said they were cutting back on cereal. That figure has now dipped to 26%. (See pictures...
...This latest announcement by Prime Minister Stephen Harper brings the total cost for Canada of restructuring GM to $9.5 billion, including $450 million in emergency funding already used by the car company, compared to $49.8 billion promised by the Obama Administration. In exchange Ottawa and the province of Ontario, where GM Canada has all its operations, receive a 12% stake in Detroit-based GM, representation on the new board and the promise to keep 16% of the struggling automaker's production in Canada as it restructures in coming months...
...latest phase of the program focuses on telemedicine. In the past year, the health-care service has piloted two home-monitoring programs for patients with diabetes and those on blood-thinning medication - groups at high risk of emergency hospitalization. At Frederiksberg Hospital, Dr. Phanareth is running a ground-breaking study to test whether patients with exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - responsible for 10% of all hospital admissions in Denmark - can be treated at home using telemedicine technology. "Sometimes, a lack of resistance is all you need for change to happen," Phanareth says...
...Washington A New Battle Over Gitmo Closing the U.S. detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, was never going to be easy. But the latest challenge comes from an unexpected quarter. Democrats in Congress, fearing the political repercussions of moving suspected terrorists to U.S. soil, have pulled $80 million in funds for closing the prison--a political blow to President Obama, who on his second full day in office signed an Executive Order to shutter Gitmo. Congressional Democrats say the Administration, under fire for keeping Bush-era military tribunals for detainees, needs to develop a clearer plan for relocating prisoners...
...inevitable, perhaps, that within hours of Tiller's death in the foyer of Reformation Lutheran Church in Wichita - where he was slain by a single bullet as he handed out service bulletins to arriving parishioners - this latest act of apparent antiabortion violence was being scanned for its political implications...