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...course, you may want to skip the strippers and join the thousands of customers opting for a less decadent Valentine's Day this year. Analysts predict that specialty arts-and-crafts stores should thrive as more consumers choose handmade over store-bought gifts. The website for specialty retailer Michaels details dozens of ideas for making cards, scrapbooks and jewelry. Since the holiday falls on a Saturday in 2009, couples can spend a full day at a museum - or at a picnic, if the weather permits. During these stressful times, people still want to huddle with their loved ones...
...Thailand. But the raid appears to have been galvanized by foreign anti-drug agents, and, as the Irrawaddy points out, it's not clear whether the Burmese junta would have raided the ship without international pressure. In the mean time, Southeast Asia's largest narco-state continues to thrive. And some Burmese farmers are able to fill their bellies for now, even as they are feeding the world's drug habit...
...might seem risky to open a new, untested store at a time when U.S. toy retailers are suffering (KB Toys, the second largest U.S. toy chain behind Toys "R" Us, filed for bankruptcy in December). But Mattel is opportunistically positioning itself to thrive, not merely survive, in a tough environment. Today, two-thirds of Barbie sales come from 150 foreign markets; international sales increased 12% in 2007, even as U.S. sales sagged by 15%. "What we're doing in Shanghai is an indication for the future of the Barbie brand," Dickson says. Mattel is already planning similar stores in Brazil...
...biodiesel," says Roy Beckford, a University of Florida researcher and expert on sustainable farm development. He has been studying different varieties of jatropha and in February plans to publish his findings that trees like those the Daltons are growing (since 2006 they've planted 900,000 near Fort Myers) thrive so well in Florida that they may yield up to eight times as much oil as they do in places like India and Africa. That translates into as much as 1,600 gal. of diesel fuel per acre per year, vs. 200 gal. for stocks that grow in the wild...
...look at financials going forward? It's difficult. We avoided much of this mess, and we've tried to limit our exposure to the banks. We've dipped our toe in the water a few times now. USBancorp, I think, will be a survivor and will thrive. But we've got quarters of difficulty. The hardest part of this is figuring out when people will start looking beyond the near-term. We've tried to take small steps into the riskier stuff. We ended up buying Bank of America again, since that worked out so well for us last year...