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...third of consumers cited fears over job security and income level as reasons for delaying purchases of household items including furniture and appliances. Jennifer Barrow, a writer for the TV show King of the Hill, says her extended family is considering limiting all Christmas gifts to $25 and may skip presents for adults. "While the financial crisis has not hit me personally, I am concerned," says the Burbank, Calif., single mother. "I am definitely trying to follow a budget for the first time and rein in spending...
...before you decide to skip the flu shot this year, experts warn that results of flu studies like this are all about design. Depending on how a particular trial is set up - which populations are studied, which vaccine is used and how many subjects are included - the results can vary, and quite significantly. The Rochester study, for example, happened to look at the effectiveness of a vaccine during two seasons in which the flu strain included in the vaccine was not well matched to the predominant circulating strain that was making people sick. That could explain the lack of protection...
...like, it boggles the mind that Nick and Norah choose such awful friends. But it makes sense given how inconsistent their personalities are. Norah is desperate not to be seen as the spoiled daughter of a famous music-producer father, but she is happy to use this position to skip the line at a club. There is also no explanation as to why a band as supposedly great as Where’s Fluffy would only perform a gig at 6 a.m. and refuse to tell its loyal fans where to show up. “Nick and Norah?...
McCain's mishandling of the situation in Washington has only exacerbated his woes. Watching the polls start to slip away from him, last week he abruptly announced he was suspending his campaign in order to return to Washington to deal with the crisis - even briefly threatening to skip the first presidential debate unless the gridlock was resolved. He backed up House minority leader John Boehner when he balked at the first bill and pledged to help convince unhappy House Republicans - a pledge that clearly fell short when the vote failed. It didn't help McCain's standing that he initially...
That may be because McCain took a frenetic, borderline erratic approach to the crisis, thrusting himself into the negotiations to very little effect. First he announced that he would suspend his campaign to salvage the bailout talks and would skip the first presidential debate unless negotiators hammered out a deal--although he didn't seem to suspend much, and the talks had been going pretty well without him. They blew up only after he dragged the circus of presidential politics back to Washington and left the impression that he agreed with House Republicans who opposed the deal. Then McCain announced...