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Lynn Loring, a flight attendant for American Airlines, has been coming to Paris for 18 years, and at times when the dollar was strong, she says, "All I did was shop." But last week, walking around the Galeries Lafayette department store, she was doing more looking than buying. The reason: the dollar has been sliding against the euro, and that's making everything much more expensive for her. "I'm so depressed," she says. [an error occurred while processing this directive...
...rfid (radio frequency identification) tags, which don't draw constant power and lend themselves to the battery's thinness. rfid tags are the tiny chips that are replacing bar codes. They wirelessly transmit information about themselves, making it easier to track, say, what's in stock in a store. Battery-powered rfid tags can transmit farther than non-battery-powered versions and push rfid signals through liquid and aluminum cans - two common signal stoppers in supermarkets. The market potential is in the billions if rfid technology expands as predicted...
...suggests asking yourself six questions before you buy anything. Questions like How am I feeling? What happens if I buy this? What happens if I don't? The answers may be enough to get you to think twice. If you don't know why you're in the store, if you're feeling down or angry, if buying this will make you cranky when you get the bill in the mail, you'll find it easier, Benson says, to walk away...
...options. First, put the item on hold for 24 hours. Even if your weakness is online shopping, you can often leave an item in your cart for a day or two. If you no longer feel compelled to buy it a day later, don't go back to the store or the site. And if you do buy it--and realize you really don't need it--you can always send it back...
...female Harvard graduate student was robbed late Monday afternoon near Dunster House. The victim, whose name has not been released, told police that she was attacked at the corner of Banks and Cowperthwaite streets after walking by two males standing in front of a convenience store. According to a community advisory released by the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD), the victim reported that the suspects struck her on the head several times. After she fell to the ground, the suspects took her wallet and fled the area. The advisory stated that the victim was not injured, and according to HUPD...