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...Asia, which represents only 30% of American exports but about 100% of American worries. Cheaper Asian goods, made possible by currency devaluations, have caused the U.S. trade deficit to balloon: America is buying more from the Pacific rim and selling less. While that's good for companies like Wal-Mart and allows shoppers to buy lawn furniture and kids' clothing cheaper, economists are concerned that Asia is sucking at America's economic resilience. With Asian markets shrinking, farmers in Montana can't export as much wheat, so prices have crashed. Companies like Coca-Cola, which makes almost...
DIED. ROSE BLUMKIN, 104, Midwestern retailing maven who, as a non-English-speaking Russian immigrant, founded the Nebraska Furniture Mart in 1937 and fostered its growth into one of the nation's largest home-furnishings stores; in Omaha. Blumkin's aggressive marketing philosophy rested on underselling her competitors. Among her fans was Warren Buffett, who bought majority control of the Mart...
Johnson's lawyer wouldn't speak with TIME about Conley's allegations (or anything else). But Johnson herself had previously rejected any suggestion that she was involved. Hospital officials, she says, "act like I went into Wal-Mart and switched my baby. I'm not ... a rocket scientist, but I'm not an idiot. Why would I switch my kid? It doesn't make sense." It's also worth mentioning that Melissa Conley and Johnson don't get along and that Melissa nurses a grudge toward her brother's ex. "I'm scared of this woman," Melissa told TIME...
...theirs. Blame it on shell shock: on July 21, only 2 1/2 weeks after the accident, the hospital told them Rebecca wasn't their granddaughter. Perhaps foreshadowing a lawsuit, the Rogerses say hospital officials cruelly ignored their grief. Linda says a pediatrician called her at the Wal-Mart pharmacy, where she works, to tell her he had news about Rebecca he had to relay in person. Later a doctor showed up with a syringe, asking for Rebecca's blood for a DNA test. (Hospital officials believe Rebecca is Johnson's biological daughter because of blood-type tests, which are much...
While Mitchell Johnson's mother has said her kids didn't have Nintendo, Scott Johnson says his boys rented gruesome games like Mortal Kombat (and played them at Wal-Mart). Finally, Carneal told a psychiatrist that he liked to play Quake and Doom, two gory video games...