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...McFarland says his year-over-year revenues rose 28% in December and 35% in January. "I'd love to see a 50% jump in February," he says. As the historian for the Shoe Service Institute of America, the cobbler trade group, McFarland tracks local media stories on shoe-repair performance and talks to hundreds of shop owners throughout the country. He says cobblers are reporting increases in the range of 25% to 40% during the fourth quarter of 2008 and early '09. (See a gallery of Olympic shoe designs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fix-It Nation: In Tough Times, Tailors and Cobblers Thrive | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

...particular brand of the Japanese fashion scene, though its representation was severely skewed. The style originated in Tokyo’s eponymous district and draws upon countless chronological and geographical influences, both aesthetically and commercially—European luxury brands regularly vie for the attention of Harajuku consumers alongside local designers. The potential origins of this uniquely Japanese amalgamation of cultural pressures are currently on display at the Museum of Fine Arts in “Showa Sophistication: Japan in the 1930s,” which is on display until November of this year. The Showa period of Japanese history...

Author: By Roxanne J. Fequiere, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: MFA Shows Off Showa Style | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

...also measures what happens after the procedure.” Cardiologists examined the study, and hospital and physician outliers—like Mass. General—were then examined by oversight committees of cardiologists, Normand said. Normand said the state sponsored her research to provide patients with information about local hospitals, so they could make informed decisions about their treatments. “From a public perspective, it’s important to quantify standard of care,” she said...

Author: By Eric W. Baum, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: MGH Death Rate Tops State Mean | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

...instance, the Everett Street Garage and the Wyeth Hall dorms were bulldozed in summer 2007 to accommodate a new academic complex on Mass. Ave. Associate Vice President for Harvard Real Estate Services James Gray stated that plans for Law School building developments in the North Yard would not affect local businesses, but he was reluctant to discuss Three Aces’ closure. “We generally don’t make comments about business relations with individual tenants,” he said. —Staff writer Shan Wang can be reached at wang38@fas.harvard.edu...

Author: By Shan Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pizza Joint Remains Closed | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

...devoted New York Yankees fan. Helped orchestrate the deal that led to the building of a new stadium for the team. After a local community board voted against the plan, Carrion removed some of the board members - an act his critics called retaliatory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Urban Policy Director Adolfo Carrion | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

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