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...Toys R' Us, and Boot Town, a Western clothes outfitter, are running liquidations now, along with Circuit City. Look for more to come. Schaye says Hudson Capital's revenues increased tenfold in 2008. According to Erickson, the Great American Group saw a 300% revenue jump in 2008. He predicts similar growth for the first three months of this year. "The numbers are higher than we ever could have imagined," Erickson says...
...known as the "year without summer." It followed the Tambora Volcano eruption in Indonesia in 1815. It was sudden climate change on a similar scale, and it resulted in a severe famine in Europe, food riots and mass emigrations. Volcanic aerosols have a lifetime of about a year in the stratosphere. The lifetime of soot from nuclear fires is about five years. It's obviously much harder for a society to recover from such an extended cooling...
Denise A. Jillson, executive director of the Harvard Square Business Association, said that while it was evident that Beauty and Main was struggling, Origins, located nearby, has similar products but has not faced the same problems...
...payment. The fence will effectively place 800 acres of the peninsula south of the wall, including equipment sheds, management offices and the preserve's on-site warden's home. Several small, organic farm plots leased to locals will also be in the no-man's-land. A similar fate is facing an adjoining sabal plam preserve owned by the Audubon Society. Huffman fears that the endangered palms, prized as garden totems, will be susceptible to poachers. (See the top 10 green ideas...
...Though World Health Organization officials say they are monitoring the situation, it's Indonesian health officials who are preparing vaccinations for doctors, veterinarians and anyone else handling sick animals. The outbreak has prompted the U.S. Embassy in Indonesia to issue a warning, and the Australian government has issued a similar advisory and provided $100,000 to the local government for testing and vaccinations...