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...extensive the impact of this housing slowdown will be. Many other real estate markets around the globe rose in tandem with the U.S. in recent years, but so far none have come back down to earth with the same force. Perhaps most surprisingly, American consumers are continuing to spend, regardless: automobile purchases are sluggish, but monthly retail sales rose by a higher-than-forecast 0.9% from November to December. "I'm not prepared to bet against the American consumer. That's a highly dangerous proposition," says Jesper Koll, chief Japan economist for Merrill Lynch...
...maintaining order are often overlooked. He and co-author David Freedman make the case that Americans' obsession with neatness has got us so frazzled about the slightest clutter that we're needlessly draining time, money and emotion from our lives in the hapless pursuit of order. Don't spend two hours a day straightening up at home, the authors say. Devote that time instead to your family or creative endeavors or anything more enjoyable than getting on your knees with a Dustbuster. Making your home germfree may actually be harmful to tots. Decluttering it not only wastes time but also...
...WASTE TIME ORGANIZING YOUR LAPTOP Search tools can instantaneously locate anything from an e-mail message to a Word document, so why spend hours dragging things from one folder to another...
...United World Scholarship to study in Norway for two years. “My time in Norway was incredibly important to me,” he said. Although it was “a tragic time politically in Zimbabwe,” he said he was grateful to spend two years at Red Cross Nordic United World College and see the world’s challenges from an international perspective. In fall 2002, he enrolled at Harvard, where his experiences in Zimbabwe and Norway led him to choose Social Studies as his concentration. In his sophomore summer, Robinson taught English...
...they are formidable. And while much has been made of the fact that Obama and Clinton face the challenge of being potential presidential firsts--African American and woman--I suspect neither Senator worries overmuch about those innate hurdles. Both have a more immediate and intimidating problem: each will spend the next year running against the most formidable living Democratic politician, Bill Clinton...