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...reaction has been pretty good,” Hughes said. “We’ve had a lot people sign up and that’s the most important feedback. Still, there are some college kids who are pissed and want to keep the network to themselves...
...example, C.O. Bigelow, the mortar-and-pestle-decorated shop that Fiske plans to expand to some 150 locations nationwide, is a radical departure from Bath & Body Works' traditional single-brand, single-price-point strategy. Judging from the reaction of Kayla Sharrock, 19, a sophomore at Capital University who went shopping at the Columbus Bigelow on a recent Thursday, the strategy may just be working. She used to go to Bath & Body Works all the time when it exuded heartland hominess. "I was a junkie since I was 12," says Sharrock. But over the years she got tired of products that...
Employers' health-care costs rose an average 12% last year. To stem the growth of medical payouts, firms increasingly focus on keeping workers healthy. "Companies prefer action rather than reaction," says Dallas Salisbury, CEO of the Employee Benefit Research Institute. "They're using more and more triggers, bribes, gimmicks and penalties to promote wellness offerings." Two-thirds provide such benefits. Some hand out pedometers to encourage workers to walk more. Others help with yoga instruction, massage and meditation. And many extend insurance discounts for employees who take smoking-cessation classes...
...Baghdad's supercharged political atmosphere, it was inevitable that reaction to Wednesday's tragedy on the Bridge of the Imams would be colored by sectarian sentiment. Within a couple of hours the city was already rife with wild rumors of an impending backlash by Shia pilgrims incensed by the death of nearly 800 of their fellows. Many streets were empty, and security forces were out in strength...
...Roberts really does think Roe was "wrongly decided," as he wrote in a 1990 Justice Department brief, Democrats want to know if he would be willing to throw it out or whether that would be too radical a reaction for his taste. Conservatives hope Roberts will line up with Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Scalia and Thomas in favor of overturning Roe, which would match the quartet--David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Stephen Breyer and John Paul Stevens--that wants to maintain it, leaving Anthony Kennedy as the swing vote. While Roe might survive, such a lineup would probably ensure that...