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...Urban Outfitters and Anthropologie: Two bright spots in mid-priced retail are these sister stores. Both are thriving by investing in competent employees and offering a good mix of merchandise people won't find anywhere else. "They have a unique display selection and a director in every store," says Howard Davidowitz, Chairman of Davidowitz & Associates, a national retail consulting and investment-banking firm.. "No other store looks like them." The catchy windows draw people inside. The funky clothes sell themselves. Chen of Needham & Co. flagged Urban Outfitters as one of the best growth stories in the specialty retail space...
...million for lab construction and $250 million for research grants and post-doctoral education at the University of Massachusetts’ Worcester and Amherst campuses. The remaining $250 million would be allocated for tax credits to life sciences firms. The bill will have significant impacts on university-based and urban economies including Cambridge and Boston which both have burgeoning biotech industries. Newly elected Massachusetts State Senator Anthony D. Galluccio, who represents Cambridge, wrote a letter to the Cambridge Chronicle earlier this month strongly supporting the legislation. Gallucio praised the bill as a means of anchoring the middle class, generating...
...area. Where I was living, even though it was in Baghdad, it is actually very, very rural. We had to move our strykers to let herds of sheep go by. Then you go maybe 15 kilometers, or even 5 kilometers to the west or east and it gets very urban. Also, just how normal the people are. They're dealing with a very, very difficult situation and yet life kind of goes on. It just has to for them...
...countries, especially among the majority indigenous populations. For them, coca has been a cultural cornerstone for 3,000 years, as much a part of daily life as coffee in the U.S. (La Paz is home to perhaps the world's only coca museum.) From the countryside to swanky urban hotels, it is chewed or brewed to stave off hunger or exhaustion or to ease the often debilitating effects of high-altitude life in the Andes. It is also "used by healers and in ceremonial offerings to the gods," says Ana Maria Chavez, a coca seller in La Paz, who refers...
...Texas superdelegates. At last count, Clinton had 11, Obama had nine, 12 were undecided and another three are to be named later. All those numbers offer numerous possible outcomes; but nearly all of them are likely to make the delegate count tighter than a pair of Wranglers on an urban cowboy...