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...This result offers an important lesson for online retailers. Even haptical illusions can have powerful effects on purchasing decisions. If a site displays a set of towels and asks shoppers to picture holding those bright, fluffy towels in their hands, it could improve its shot at notching a sale...
...what economists call a "lagging indicator," and it will still be rising well after the economy has started growing again. It's also misleading, in that it excludes from its calculations people who would really like to have a job but have given up actively looking. As a result, economic forecasters tend to look more closely at payroll data, which come from a survey of 150,000 businesses and government agencies. (The unemployment rate is derived from a Census Bureau survey of 50,000 households...
...name from consideration as head of HHS. One source close to the process says the Finance Committee is now giving such scrutiny to the tax records of Administration nominees that, amid the committee's larger concerns, it has questioned items as small as $14 on their returns. As a result, sources say, the White House has stepped up its own vetting process - slowing everything down even further. (Read "Tim Geithner's Hiring! And His Critics Hope It's Soon...
Under his predecessor, Gov. Eliot Spitzer, Paterson and his colleagues began to work on new legislation that would replace punishment with treatment where needed, even in the case of some first offenders who pled guilty. The result was an agreement on March 25 between Paterson and state legislators on a bill that would give judges more discretion in sentencing by eliminating mandatory minimums for some higher-level drug offenders and making lower level offenders eligible for treatment...
...third time offenders," says Michael C. Green, Monroe County District Attorney. "The option is being taken away to potentially jail an offender who has committed prior violent felonies." Green cited statistics that showed the state's drug incarceration rate dropping to about 11,000 last year as a result of the 2004 reforms and says it's even a misnomer to call the current statutes Rockefeller Laws at all. Paterson believes, however, the reforms are a way to reduce both incarceration and recidivism, and ultimately make the system work correctly - and more cheaply. "We will save, shortly, in the hundreds...