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...held nearly $1 trillion in credit-card debt this time last year-about the same as the value of all the goods and services produced in South Korea annually. We've bought so much stuff that we've struggled to find places to fit it all. The U.S. went from having 300 million square feet of self-storage space in 1984 to 2.4 billion square feet in 2008, according to the Self Storage Association, a 700% surge. By 2005, one in five new houses came with three garage bays-the third, real-estate agents explained, to store all the "toys...
...like night and day," says Matthew Katz, managing director at consultancy AlixPartners' retail practice, whose team traveled to about 30 malls, big box retailers and strip-mall centers to monitor activity today in different parts of the country. "I purposely went to the same mall in Short Hills, N.J. at 9 a.m. as I went to last year, he says. "Last year [on Black Friday] I parked in the front row, and this year it took me about 20 minutes to get a spot." (See pictures of expensive things money...
...evidence the satellite phone calls and financial records that Indian authorities say prove that the attacks were planned by a jihadi network based in Pakistan. U.S. investigators and U.S. citizens who witnessed the attacks gave testimony in Mumbai; Mumbai police also got help from American intelligence officials when they went to New Jersey to trace calls routed through a U.S.-based internet phone service. The Indian government has presented several dossiers of evidence to Pakistani authorities to prosecute defendants there. On Wednesday, an anti-terrorism court in Pakistan indicted seven people for planning the attacks, including Zaki ur Rehman Lakhvi...
...Massachusetts was founded by religious people,” says Jonathan C. Page ’02, the Epps fellow and assistant chaplain at Memorial Church. “Back then, theology was queen of scientists. Therefore anyone who went to Harvard was a leading citizen of the colony—a good theologian...
...mark, and the elders had departed, McCullough and I stood in the hallway outside Governor Manaf's office. McCullough had a lot to do that day - his Marines were trying to maintain security, rebuild bridges, solve the riddles of the local canal networks, and so on. But before he went on to his next meeting, I asked him what he would have done if one of the detainees had refused to sign the document. He responded unequivocally: "We would've convinced them to sign...