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These days, consumers, no matter how romantic and sentimental they may be, value that extra cash. So retailers must get more aggressive in order to spread the love. At Louis Martin Jewelers in New York City, for example, you can find the back room filled with sparkling rings and necklaces. "Last year, this was the high-end room," says Martin, the owner. "Now, it's the markdown room." Everything's on sale - for example, a $2,500, 18-karat-gold, diamond and amethyst ring now costs $597. "We're selling things at or even below cost," Martin says. "We have...
...first to experiment with a technique like this. In the terra incognita of cognitive research, brain-computer interfaces are increasingly common - but complicated. Typically, subjects have to be trained to use them and must rehearse a random, energy-intensive brain task like mentally singing a song in order to light up a pattern of brain activity that sends a signal to the researchers. The new technique extracts information much more directly by targeting the frontal lobe's preference functions. What's more, while other studies have required the subjects to activate their brains over and over again so that researchers...
...information was relayed to department administrators in the sciences division of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences yesterday, according to individuals in attendance at the briefing. The individuals, who shared their own notes from the proceedings, requested anonymity in order to preserve their relationship with FAS administrators...
...next few years, up to 57,000 inmates may walk free from California’s prisons. On Monday, a panel of federal judges ordered the state to reduce its incarcerated population by up to 40 percent within a two- to three-year period in order to relieve severe overcrowding. The court stated that overcrowding was the primary reason for what it called “unconstitutional conditions” in California’s prisons—conditions that judges said were so poor that prisoners regularly commit suicide or die from lack of adequate health care...
...Prisons at around 200 percent capacity—with thousands bunked in hallways and gyms for lack of housing space—cannot possibly provide an acceptable level of medical or mental health care to inmates. In addition to prompting action to reduce overcrowding, we hope that the court order will also be viewed as a call for a more thoughtful, long-term evaluation of our theory of punishment. Strategies such as outsourcing prisoners to other states or privatizing prisons do little to solve the deeper issues that cause overcrowding in the first place—we need a critical...