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This gap shows up dramatically on the selling floor. Isaac Lagnado, publisher of Tactical Retail Monitor, an industry newsletter, estimates that sales of designer items such as $200 Hermes scarves and $1,745 Chanel handbags grew a whopping 18% last year, to $30 billion, while sales of general merchandise--everything from toys to towels to T shirts--rose only 4.5%, to $575 billion. "The low end is tapped out," says Merrill Lynch analyst Peter Caruso. Indeed, credit-card delinquencies are at a 10-year high. And feeble sales growth has forced discounters such as Wal-Mart, K Mart and Toys...
...cases, fetal-monitor readings--which are supposed to detect early signs of brain damage to the fetus--are sending false alarms. Consequently, say researchers, women are often rushed into unnecessary caesareans...
Locke and Hobbes aside, most people would include "keyboard," "hard disk" and "dedicated monitor" somewhere in their answer. And in the 1990s, that's what we expect a computer to look like...
...which costs less than $500, plugs into your television set for you to use as a monitor. It probably won't include a hard drive either; instead, it will plug into your telephone line and connect you directly to the Internet...
Even as China begins full-scale military exercises in the Taiwan Strait, a delegation of 12 Law School students is preparing for a 10-day visit to Taiwan to monitor the island nation's first-ever democratic elections...