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...holiday season proved merrier than expected for U.S. retailers, with MasterCard estimating a 3.6% increase in sales vs. 2008. Analysts credit the surge in part to an extra day of shopping between Thanksgiving and Christmas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 1/11/2010 | See Source »

...this sounds like a dog lover's more-the-merrier fantasy - 101 Dalmatians times five - think again. The rehabilitation of even one fighting dog is a long and uncertain project. First comes the medical care. Beyond their obvious wounds and infections, some of the dogs arrive with broken ribs and internal injuries - from being kicked. After the physical exams comes a psychological evaluation. Experienced animal handlers gauge the dog's mental condition: How aggressive is it? How traumatized? How far gone? This screening is a final life-or-death ordeal for a dog, because a fighter that cannot be tamed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Attack Dogs Be Rehabilitated? | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

...always welcome competition of ideas on campus,” said Rachel L. Wagley ’11, co-president of Harvard’s pro-abstinence group, True Love Revolution. “The more the merrier...

Author: By James K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Political Group Opens Chapter | 9/7/2009 | See Source »

While The Crimson's home page is covered head to toe in doom and gloom-- the Yale Daily News has had merrier news to report. Over their front page? Their web site has gone all-out to report that planning for their two new Residential Colleges (the equivalent to Harvard's Houses) is going forward, and they even have architectural designs now. The sketches look like they're straight out of the Middle Ages, and FlyBy cannot tell a lie: they look pretty cool...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi | Title: Yale Puts Us to Shame | 5/13/2009 | See Source »

...them being read in airplanes, but it's a last resort, isn't it? And the category of 'literary fiction' has sprung up recently to torment people like me who just set out to write books, and if anybody wanted to read them, terrific, the more the merrier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Updike, Literary Heavyweight | 1/27/2009 | See Source »

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