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...decision to campaign with an alliance of four Islamist parties, including the Jamaat-i-Islami, which includes some who collaborated with the Pakistani military against the freedom movement, proved to be a huge miscalculation. She repeatedly invoked religion, proclaiming that a vote for the BNP was a vote to "save Islam." She was also silent on the issue of prosecuting war crimes committed during the 1971 struggle. The symbolic low point came this fall, when several Islamist groups pulled down a memorial to the student movement near the airport - they called it "un-Islamic"- and threatened to tear down...
...couple still largely limit their regular spending to necessities like food, clothing and gas, totaling about 4,000 yuan (about $580) a month. That amount takes up most of Gong's monthly salary. By keeping luxuries down and giving up vacation travel, the couple have managed to save up all of Wang's salary, which normally amounts to about 10,000 yuan ($1,460) a month. "I just like to stay in and watch movies when I'm off from work," says Gong, who describes himself as an indoor person. The farthest trip he's been on in recent years...
Back in September, V.V. Chari, an economist at the University of Minnesota and an adviser to the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, got a call from a Congressman. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke were arguing that they needed $700 billion to save the nation's financial system, and the Congressman wanted to know what to make of it all. Chari said he didn't know - he hadn't looked at the data. Policymakers kept talking about how banks weren't lending to businesses or to individuals or even to each other, so Chari pulled numbers...
...have to pin their hopes on the week after Christmas, when shoppers typically return gifts, redeem gift cards and look for post-holiday discounts. Lots of leftover product in stores and even deeper discounts, analysts say, could provide a year-end boost. Still, it will not be enough to save a bleak 2008 for most retailers. "For many stores, there is no first, second, or third quarter - 25 to 30% of their volume comes from the back-end of the year," says NPD's Cohen. "There is no second chance. You wait the whole year for the holiday...
Whatever the reason might be, the results of this study make it clear that sleep isn't just for dreamers. Getting enough sleep might just save your heart...