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...storm. Total sales dropped 11.7% during the nine-week holiday period that ended on Jan. 3, and sales at stores open for at least a year fell 14.4% during that time. In addition, the company was woefully late to the e-commerce game; it finally launched its own sales site in May (the brand had partnered with Amazon to move books before then). During the 2008 holidays, Borders.com delivered 2.4% of total sales. Comparatively, Barnes & Noble's site regularly delivers 10% of total sales, says Michael Norris, a publishing-industry analyst for research firm Simba Information...
...ability to divide and create progeny - some of which will eventually expire, others that are self-renewing. The pair irradiated mice, destroying their immune cells. They then injected versatile bone-marrow cells into the animals' spleens and were surprised to see a ball of cells grow from each injection site. Each mass turned out to have emerged from a single stem cell, which in turn generated new blood cells...
...consequence of the open-ended nature of R2P, and it raises troubling questions. Where does the responsibility to protect end? Does it mean fighting a national army? Does it mean supplanting a national government? Does it mean accepting the large losses that would inevitably accompany intervention in Somalia--the site of the world's worst humanitarian crisis--or in totalitarian states like Burma? Doss insists there are limits to what he proposes. "We assist the national process. We do not replace it," he says. "We're not an army of occupation." But introducing a foreign combat force into Congo would...
...deal will provide Let’s Go with distribution by Publishers Group West and publishing by Avalon Travel, whose Web site says it is the largest independent travel publisher based in the United States...
...Rockwell is renowned for his adult playgrounds - chic hotels, restaurants and casinos he has designed around the world. But shortly after Sept. 11, 2001, the father of two had a vision for a new playground for lower Manhattan. Construction on that site, the first permanent Imagination Playground, is set to begin this week. Instead of swings or other standard play equipment, there will be movable objects that children can use to build and tear down, thus ensuring a different experience with each trip to the figure-eight-shaped playground. (See pictures of architects building for the 21st century...