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...Tuesday, Jan. 26, expects retail sales to rise 2.5% on average in 2010, reversing the 2.5% decline seen in 2009. "As we continue to see signs of improvement throughout the U.S. economy in 2010, overall sentiment will begin to lift, making way for slight increases in consumer spending," said Rosalind Wells, NRF's chief economist. Although shoppers will continue to be "frugal," - yes, even she expects it - retailers will benefit from leaner, smarter inventories and a year and a half of pent-up consumer demand, Wells says. Retailers should also reap the benefits of low inflation and a slowly improving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Retail Outlook: More Bargain-Seeking Shoppers | 1/28/2010 | See Source »

...someone had asked, “What about Hypatia of Egypt, Sophie Germain, Ada Lovelace, Emmy Noether, Julia Robinson, Hedy Lamarr, Rosalind Franklin, Marie Curie, and Lise Meitner?” perhaps Summers would have replied that these women would not have gotten tenure at Harvard under his watch, based on discouragingly low promotion rates for women during Summers’ presidency...

Author: By Jonathan D. Farley and Autumn Stone | Title: Summers’ Theory of Inequality | 1/25/2010 | See Source »

...yielded high-quality data and made it possible for researchers to discover the origin of the protein interactions that caused stiffening in neurofilaments. “This is a new approach likely to be helpful to many in the fields of biology, biophysics and bioengineering,” said Rosalind A. Segal, a neurobiology professor and the director of the science program at the Radcliffe Institute, in a press release issued by the Institute. Yao’s senior thesis is based on four manuscripts, of which he is the lead author on three and a lead co-author...

Author: By Manning Ding, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Senior Receives Prestigious Research Awards | 5/29/2009 | See Source »

...that will impress many a reviewer with its poignancy. Here the main reporters are career antagonists representing two generations, indeed two species, of daily journalism: he an ink-stained kvetch of the print era, she an online blogger looking for the gossip angle. They might be Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell from the classic newspaper comedy His Girl Friday, except the tension is all professional, nothing romantic. (No time for lovey-dovery; must keep main story moving.) But it is perfectly symbiotic; the two use their complementary skills of wheedling, flirting, threatening to find out who done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: State of Play: Better on the Small Screen | 4/17/2009 | See Source »

...This year, as usual, the poems were in groups. From “Travel” to “Blazing Western Action,” they varied. Most of the poems were not bad on purpose But “Orlando’s Declaration of Love to Rosalind,” by William Shakespeare, to take one example, was. Some of the poems were about celebrities Like fans’ odes to Batman and Miley and Britney. In the field of bad poetry Randall Johnson’s name is big: He’s the proud author...

Author: By Joseph P. Shivers, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bad Poet’s Society | 12/3/2008 | See Source »

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