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...number of analysts of consumer behavior thought Starbucks would be decimated by the recession. Consumers would stop going out and would brew their coffee at home to save money. That theory failed to take into account the social bonding aspects of going to Starbucks. It is psychologically and emotionally comforting during distressing times to be in the company of friends and neighbors. Starbucks has set up its stores so people will linger. Four dollars for a cup coffee is expensive, but four dollars for comfort...
...soil and air too. As this winter of our country's discontent melts into planting season, our government would do well to take this lesson from the garden. Especially as it applies to medicine. The doctor is a surprisingly fragile plant, in real danger of being strangled by a number of aggressive species. Here is a short field guide to their identification...
...Meirion Evans, an epidemiologist with the U.K.'s Faculty of Public Health, the government body that sets public health standards, "If we start seeing countries reporting contractions from person-to-person, then visiting anywhere in the world would be as risky as visiting Mexico." And despite the high number of swine flu cases reported in Mexico - over 2,000, with more than 150 deaths so far - that number may stabilize or fall, suggesting that Mexico "could be over the worst of its problems, whereas other countries have the worst to come...
...sharp reduction in air travel after the Sept. 11 attacks on that year's flu season. They found that the initial flight ban and general decline in air travel in the weeks after delayed the onset of the flu season but did little to reduce the overall number of infections and deaths that year...
...population control, hunted at night by licensed shooters who sell to processing plants. Only four out of 55 kangaroo species can be culled for commercial use. In 2002, the national quota was at a high of nearly 7 million, but as kangaroo populations declined with dry weather, that number has been reduced by half...