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Black Friday is over, and retailers are breathing at least a small sigh of relief. Results were not as bleak as some feared; consumer spending rose a surprising 7% over last year. Now websites are kicking off their own holiday shopping season, and hopes for similar results are high...
...world try to take steps to impose moratoriums on foreclosures, because the problem is so overwhelming," he says, adding that a 90-day moratorium should provide homeowners with the chance to refinance their loans and will dovetail with the incoming Obama administration, which holds out hope of providing financial relief to Main Street USA. (Read Four Steps to Ending the Foreclosure Crisis...
...responsibility. But it's far better to think of the One Foundation as so called because of its essential idea: that if every able person in China were to contribute one renminbi (about 15 cents) once a month, then an enormous reserve could be built up for the relief of deserving causes (and thus create "one big family," to use One Foundation - speak). Although large corporate endowments are solicited and obtained, the soul of the enterprise really does lie in spare change. Ordinary Chinese donate by patronizing one of many businesses that Li has signed up - by dining...
...from Darfur. Aid workers in Iriba told me that, as horrific as the suffering was, it was surely going to get worse. "The water is going. The firewood is gone. The land has lost its ability to regenerate," said Palouma Ponlibae, an agriculture and natural-resources officer for the relief agency care. "The refugees are going to have to move. There's going to be nothing here to sustain life...
...year-old Kathleen Caronna on the head. Caronna spent nearly a month in a coma, then sued Macy's and the city for $395 million. (The parties reached an undisclosed settlement in 2001.) Nine years later, in a strange twist of "only in New York" fate, Yankee relief pitcher Cory Lidle crashed his private airplane into Caronna's highrise apartment...