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...buying from one another. And while those numbers are but a small part of the overall retail economy--which clocks in at $2.7 trillion--e-business is rapidly replacing the traditional kind for almost any purchase you can imagine. By the time the ribbons are off the packages this week, Americans will have spent $5 billion online for holiday gifts--more than twice as much as last year...
There was a time when Bezos could say, "If I had a nickel for every time a potential investor told me this wouldn't work..." and then lapse off into head shaking. Now he follows that line with a wild, giggly laugh. No wonder: as of last week, Bezos had 200 billion nickels. A rich reward, to be sure, but how on earth can you compensate a man who can see the future? Perhaps by inaugurating him into that club of men and women selected for having had, "for better or worse," the biggest impact in a given year. Welcome...
When the stock market-obsessed U.S. deems a profession to be too menial for its best and brightest, it imports drudge workers from abroad. At some point, teaching - once seen as noble - took on the status of low-end work, both in salary and prestige. So this week Chicago received federal clearance to become the second major city in recent years to import talent from abroad. The Windy City finds itself unable to fill at least 400 teaching vacancies each year, and it's not alone - earlier this year the Department of Labor declared a critical national labor shortage...
...human rights standards, and there was certainly no lack of evidence to back his claim: Russian forces continued their relentless pounding of Grozny despite the presence of thousands of civilians in the city, and the Russian military opened a criminal investigation into an alleged massacre of 41 civilians last week at a village near Grozny after initially denying...
While most of the U.S. enjoyed a peaceful holiday weekend, the nation's law enforcement community quietly worked to preempt a New Year's catastrophe. In the Northwest the FBI tracked the lead of a Washington State airline employee who recalled selling a plane ticket for Las Vegas last week to Adbelmajed Dahoumane, the suspected accomplice of Ahmed Ressam, the Algerian man caught smuggling explosives across the U.S.-Canadian border. Dahoumane's destination raised a red flag - Las Vegas will host one of the nation's largest New Year's celebrations on its fabled strip. The feds continue to scour...