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...ropostale, which targets 14-to-17-year-old boys and girls and operates more than 900 locations in 47 states. Same-stores sales increased 11% in the first quarter, and the company's first-quarter profits rose an eye-popping 81%, to $31.5 million, as it continues to steal share from Abercrombie & Fitch, American Eagle Outfitters and other more upscale chains. In fact, in 9 of the past 11 quarters, the company's profits grew by better than 30%. (Read about how to know when the economy is turning...
...National Basketball Association and the National Football League have clashed with team owners over how to divide the profits from selling the TV rights to their games. The same issue regularly pops up in English Premier League soccer. "There is a continual, not always disastrous, dialogue about the share of the commercial rewards of sporting events," notes Chris Aylett, chief executive of Britain's Motorsport Industry Association. "What's more important? The Super Bowl or the teams playing in it? In that sense, F1 has had that dialogue going for a while." (Read "Formula One: Behind the Wheels...
...Both autism-spectrum conditions and anorexia share a narrow focus of attention, a resistance to change and excellent attention to detail," says Simon Baron-Cohen, director of the Autism Research Centre at Cambridge University, who is not involved in the Maudsley research...
...recently signed an amended individual agreement with the University of Michigan, adding a mechanism that would give the university the right to dispute a price increase through arbitration. Any price discrepancy in the arbitrated settlement would come from Google's 37% revenue stake, not from the authors' and publishers' share. "That's a step in the right direction, but it only benefits the University of Michigan at this point," says Williams...
...copper mine. In 2001, China formed the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a geo-political grouping aimed at improving economic and political relations with Russia and other Central Asian nations - as well as a vehicle for Beijing to quash support for separatists in its restive Xinjiang province, whose Muslim Uighurs share ethnic ties with Central Asia's Turkic populations. The SCO also declared in 2005 that there must be a timeline for withdrawing all U.S. military bases in Central Asia, a clear sign of Beijing and Moscow's intent to limit U.S. influence. The organization convened most recently this week...