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Marshall Cohen, chief retail analyst at NPD Group, sees the Black Friday glass as half-full rather than half-empty. "The fact that retailers were able to sell as much, if not more, product at a 40% discount, compared with last year's 75% storewide discount, was positive," says Cohen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After Black Friday, Doubts Grow About a Shopping Uptick | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

Davidowitz doesn't believe discounting will reach last year's 80% levels, mainly because most retailers ordered up to 20% less inventory this year. "They won't be as panicked or as big," he says. The 70% discounts will likely be offered on select items rather than store-wide, as they were last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After Black Friday, Doubts Grow About a Shopping Uptick | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

...sleep may also be important to memory. Recent research suggests that deep sleep can strengthen factual memories, but only if the person naps within 12 hours of learning. In other words, if you have to memorize an SAT word list, you might be better off doing it at night rather than in the morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Want to Boost Your Memory? Try Sleeping on It | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

...spoke fewer words. He was more captivated by spinning wheels than Teletubbies. His father Tom noticed that his blond, blue-eyed son would always walk in circles around the kitchen table and that he would do the equivalent at their local park in Seattle - walking along the perimeter fence rather than crossing into the play area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Evidence That Early Therapy Helps Autistic Kids | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

...story behind the name is much less romantic. Actually, there is no story. Rather, there was only a list of criteria. The name had to have no preexisting meaning, it had to be easy to spell, it had to have the potential to be a verb, it could be no longer than two syllables, and so on. After spending many months putting random syllables together, Shahabi came upon "Dantoon...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dantoon (No, Not a Parody of 'Lampoon') | 11/29/2009 | See Source »

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