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...gauge of how much money consumers have after the bills are paid, also declined in November, albeit a slight 0.1%. What's more, a hoped-for uptick in sales on the final weekend before Christmas does not appear to be materializing. Along with the sputtering economy, heavy winter weather across much of the nation played a big role in keeping people home. ShopperTrak, which measures sales and traffic at more than 50,000 stores, reports that the number of customers in stores last weekend fell 17% from last year - while total sales showed a tiny gain...
...cuts in production. The company will close all of its passenger-car plants for the month of January and reduce the company's production of new cars and trucks 30% during the first quarter. Chrysler and GM have asked the U.S. government for $14 billion in bridge loans to weather the current credit crunch. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...ritas oversees the Santa Clara facility. "It's crowded, there are no beds, a cold-water shower, and only one toilet," says Juan Carlos Escobedo, the local head of Cáritas. "But without it, we'd have 200 people sleeping on the street in three-degree weather...
Skeptics raise other concerns, ones that go beyond the copycat effect. Couldn't happy people simply be exposed to similar lifestyles or social factors that explain their shared joy, such as favorable weather, low unemployment rates or a winning baseball team? If that were the case, argue the authors, then happiness would spread more uniformly among all the relationships; instead, it varied depending on whether the friendship was mutual or merely one-sided. As the investigators teased out these factors, they found that environment didn't have nearly the power that relationships...
...Harvard College Human Rights Advocates (HCHRA), in which members read articles from the declaration and described how they had attempted to uphold those rights for others. The HCHRA is an undergraduate umbrella organization that promotes international human rights advocacy and research. “Especially given the horrible weather conditions, there was a nice turnout and everyone was enthusiastic,” said Robert J. Ross ’09, vice president of advocacy for HCHRA and a singer with the Veritones. The celebration was sponsored by the University Committee on Human Rights Studies (UCHRS), the Carr Center for Human...