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First, the participants were asked to memorize the correct location of 50 images on a computer monitor. The images were shown one at a time, arranged in a random place on the screen - a cat appeared on the bottom left, a gong on the top right and so forth. Each object was shown with a related sound - so subjects heard a meow with the picture of a cat, and a crashing noise coupled with the image of a gong. After studying the 50 images and locations, the participants were asked to take a short nap in a recliner...
...like night and day," says Matthew Katz, managing director at consultancy AlixPartners' retail practice, whose team traveled to about 30 malls, big box retailers and strip-mall centers to monitor activity today in different parts of the country. "I purposely went to the same mall in Short Hills, N.J. at 9 a.m. as I went to last year, he says. "Last year [on Black Friday] I parked in the front row, and this year it took me about 20 minutes to get a spot." (See pictures of expensive things money...
...interview with the Christian Science Monitor on Nov. 25, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said, "There is now impeccable evidence the conspiracy was planned in Pakistan. It was executed with the active connivance of people who are still roaming around freely in Pakistan. Therefore, I respectfully request the world community to use all its influence on Pakistan to desist from that sort of behavior." Those are strong words coming from the normally reticent Indian leader, and a signal of a harder line in the second year after Mumbai...
...effectively a Prime Minister? Zuma: He is not a Prime Minister. He had the very specific task of helping me and the country to work out a national plan, to ask: where shall we be by this time? Where is the country going? His role is also to monitor and evaluate. The reason Trevor was appointed was because he had been minister of finance and had an understanding of the workings of all government departments and what happens inside them. And that's important to shape a national plan. But his commission makes recommendations and the cabinet debates them...
TIME: Is there a sense in which you've had to introduce this renewal and create a new government structure to monitor yourselves because, with such a huge electoral majority, the polls don't do it for you? Are you trying to create the democracy - the accountability and transparency - that the ANC's majority negates. Zuma: We're dealing with a party that is very strong and is loved by the people. The opposition might have many things to say but they are not very strong. They cannot challenge us successfully - we are too strong. And the problem is that...