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Good news from UPS may also be good news for Main Street. The Atlanta-based UPS and its main rival, FedEx, are in some ways economic bellwethers. The 15.1 million packages that UPS handles every day translate into about 6% of the U.S.'s gross domestic product and 2% of the world's. Consider too that the shipping giants may actually be lagging indicators. "In downturns, companies let inventories deplete before they restock," Becker says. "That means demand--and the economy overall--must go up significantly before UPS's business improves...
This shift presents a logistical puzzle, because there's no way the engineers can make a single Amazon shipment to the far reaches of, say, Alaska economical. The answer might surprise you: UPS and FedEx are now outsourcing delivery to a longtime rival, the U.S. Postal Service. "The postal service is already mandated by Congress to stop at every house," Caldwell says. "So why not outsource that last-mile delivery?" In other words, let USPS handle the money losers...
Harvard would assuredly love to get another shot to face the Tigers. In two of the last three years, the Crimson has lost the championship match to its fellow Ancient Eight rival...
...rival Samitivej Hospital, www.samitivejhospitals.com, in the expatriate haven along upper Sukhumvit Road, there's a branch of the Japanese home-style Ootoya chain (as part of a wing for Japanese patients), an excellent croissant bakery and a newly revamped food court, run by the catering arm of international facilities-management giant Sodexo...
Islamabad's long-standing nightmare remains: that when the Americans go, its neighbors - especially India, Pakistan's hated rival - will be influential in Kabul. The Taliban and the Haqqanis are insurance against such an eventuality. Baradar's detention has not yet changed Pakistan's assessment of how its own interests may best be defended. Remember, too, that no matter how well Operation Moshtarak seems to be going, many Taliban commanders think they are winning. Whatever happens in Marjah, they can point to a widening influence across Afghanistan. They also have been heartened by last week's announcement that...