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...these are as many stores as we've ever had open. Overall, if the U.S. is going into recession it is a slight recession. You can very easily lose touch with the fact that this is still the strongest economy in the world by some distance. And we're quite confident that we will continue to grow sales in existing stores even in this very difficult climate. We're finding that our new stores are doing really well. Plus our new stores have the advantage of being fresh so we can open the very best stores we know...
...Beth Marcus, a family physician at Verdugo Hills Hospital in Glendale, Calif., knows all about these difficulties. "I don't think there's any way in our culture to have kids feeling 100% good about themselves when you're telling them they need to lose weight," she admits...
...deal with interference from baby monitors and microwave ovens and cordless phones too. As a result, my Internet access would vanish and reappear like a will-o'-the-wisp, even when I engaged OS X's excitingly named "interference robustness" feature. I always seemed to lose connectivity just when I was about to send a crucial e-mail--it's embarrassing to run down a city street waving your laptop around like a crazy person, but it's amazing how unselfconscious you get when you have to find one lousy bar of wi-fi in the next two minutes...
...Marriott is determined not to lose the boomers. "Our motto is 'You dance with the one that brung you,'" King says. So the furniture--while contemporary, warm and approachable--is deliberately not hip, although the lobby is color coded for coolness: blue for technology, including chairs and tables with accessible plugs; orange for food. According to Marriott, the new lobby has been so successful, the Fair Oaks hotel owner has seen his first-quarter revenue per available room, a standard industry-profitability measurement, rise 12% over last year...
...more than a million others suffer from undereating disorders. But sandwiched between those who eat far too much and those who voluntarily eat too little are millions of American teens in the moderate middle. Because their eating habits are varied and so difficult to study, it's easy to lose track of what's on their menus--but it's worth trying to find out. In a few years, those teens will be making food decisions not just for themselves but also for their own kids...