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Amid the gravest economic and financial crisis in decades, the outlook for Christmas was never very bright. Some 54% of Americans polled by market-research firm TNS Retail Forward said they planned to spend less money on Christmas gifts this month than they did one year ago. The pullback is not just hitting middle market retailers, such as Dillards and Macys, but upscale stores like Saks Fifth Ave and Nordstrom as well. Saks, for example, saw same-stores sales decline 11.5% in the third quarter, followed by a 5.2% decrease in November...
...Miller is part of a surge in new-member enrollment, adding to the ranks of some 60 million visitors to online dating sites each month. Dating colossus Match.com, which charges users $35 a month, reported its largest monthly membership growth in seven years in November, while Perfectmatch.com reported a 47% jump in membership over the past quarter...
...dating habits. "I was spending less time at bars and clubs meeting girls and more time at home trying to find girls on the Internet," he says. "I used to spend hundreds of dollars a week on my various dating efforts, whereas now, I only spend $50 a month on online dating, and I'm pretty much guaranteed success." That last part may sound a bit cocky, but there are plenty of women out there who are ready to prove him right...
Certainly, though, the Apollo 8 crew had earned the right to celebrate. It was Christmastime 1968 - the end of a hard year. In April, Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered; in June, Bobby Kennedy followed; in August, the Democratic Convention in Chicago dissolved into bloody rioting; and in each month of that exceedingly bloody year, 1,200 Americans had died in Vietnam. So people had bigger things on their minds in October when Apollo 7 - the first of the three-man Apollo ships - had orbited the Earth. And people might have been equally indifferent in December when Apollo 8 went...
...Critics of the Church hierarchy see such pronouncements as proof of Catholicism's unhealthy "obsession" with sexual matters. In his book Sex and Heaven, Catholic writer John Portmann argues that the Vatican has made having "correct sex" the singular virtue for achieving salvation. In just the past month, the Vatican has announced its opposition to a United Nations proposal to protect gays from being criminalized and punished by governments for their orientation, and released a doctrinal office document reinforcing the Church's opposition to assisted fertility and stem cell research...