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Shoppers who wait too long could be left empty-handed as reduced inventory levels will mean fewer sizes, colors and selections of items. "That baby-blue cashmere sweater in medium may not be there on Dec. 24," says Richard Jaffe, managing director at Stifel Nicolaus...
...optimism and self-confidence that India's leaders now routinely display. Though India's boom has been tempered by the global economic crisis, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told the summit that he expected growth in fiscal year 2009-10 to reach 6.5% - hardly shabby - before recovering in the medium term to the 8% to 9% that was seen in the years before...
Happiness is a sappy word and a flimsy concept - more fleeting than contentment, several octaves lower than joy. But happiness is what pollsters test and economists track, however clumsily, so we're stuck with it as the medium for measuring our mood. Not surprisingly, that mood has bounced around over the years, with the general sense of well-being hitting its lowest points in 1973, 1982, 1992 and 2001, all recession years. So why is it that at least some aspects of the Great Recession of 2009 appear to have made people feel better? (See 10 big recession surprises...
...problem is we take in information from a website differently than we do from a sheet of paper. "The online medium lends itself to a more superficial processing of information," says Jakob Nielsen, a Web-usability expert who has written a dozen books on how people interact with technology. "You're just surfing the information. It's not a deep learning...
...while these shows were fun, they were far from educational. It wasn't until the debut of Sesame Street on Nov. 10, 1969, that TV became a medium tasked with developing young minds. Sesame Street's success wasn't exactly a surprise--about 2 million households tuned in to its premiere on PBS--but it was groundbreaking nonetheless. In addition to teaching kids ABCs and math--under the tutelage of an 8-ft.-tall yellow bird and an irritable garbage-can dweller--it was one of the first TV shows to depict an inclusive, racially harmonious neighborhood, prompting Mississippi...