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...Protection Agency (EPA) decided to revise the tests it uses to determine the official fuel-economy rating for new automobiles. It was no secret that before the revision, the actual gas mileage delivered by a new car tended to be significantly lower than what was promised by the official "window sticker" ratings. That's because they were based on the EPA's old tests, which involved little more than steady driving - without the use of air conditioning or anything else that might increase gasoline consumption...
...1950s and 60s that literally manifested this relationship in America. By the first half of the 20th century, Americans were already saturated in a visual culture—a culture that enticed consumption on every street corner and was epitomized, interestingly enough, by the urban department store window. The department store window, as we know it today, was a modern innovation. While the makeshift window displays before the mid-1880s consisted of products casually strewn on top of boxes and crates, the department store windows of the 1920s experimented with novel techniques of color, glass, and light to amplify...
...greatest in the country and has a great following.” The market for such a specialized niche can be tight, and 02138 certainly experienced the advertisement squeeze.Perhaps the larger message here, however, is not 02138-specific. The troubling trend of folding magazines everywhere presents a window into the possible future of print media, in this age and this economy.BEYOND THE IVY GATES02138 is certainly not the only one of its kind to go under with the economy. Just last week, The Christian Science Monitor announced that they would cease daily publication of the newspaper and instead switch...
...reason for the earlier discounts: a shorter window to shop. Black Friday falls on November 28th this year, the latest date possible. That means five fewer shopping days (and one less weekend) between Thanksgiving and Christmas than last year. "Stores are trying to grab their share of consumers earlier because they don't think there will be that much to go around," says Stacy Janiak, vice chairman and U.S. retail leader at Deloitte LLP. "If they can get people to shop now it will be better than waiting...
...manor house that emits strange sounds after midnight. According to legend, a mysterious man in a cape rented the apartment a few hundred years back; a neighbor who peaked around the door to find out what all the noise was about one night saw the devil himself. The single window in the room is now bricked up and the glazing painted with a fake curtain. According to a clerk at a nearby hotel, a Dutch diplomat who not long ago rented rooms the floor below, was on several occasions so spooked by the unexplained noises that she spent the night...