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...what's outperforming on the shelves? A catch-all category called "seasonal general merchandise," which contains thawing salt, body warmers and gift packages with candy, was tops, with a 32% rise. Analysts explain this jump by pointing to the unusually cold and snowy winter, plus the folks who traded down their Valentine's Day purchases from fancy dinners and jewelry to smaller-ticket gift packages. Unit sales for canning and freezing supplies like jars, bags and containers were up 11.5% during the eight weeks ending on Feb. 21, making them the second best-performing category on Nielsen's list. This...
...menu.”Most restaurants reported that alcohol sales have been one constant in a uncertain landscape.Om Restaurant and Lounge, an Asian fusion restaurant with a focus on after-hours nightlife, has been moving its signature aromatherapy cocktails at a steady clip, despite an otherwise very slow winter, Event Coordinator Leah E. Horgan said.“The bar has been steady. That’s something people are seeing all around,” Horgan said.Across the street, Upstairs on the Square has been no different.“People are definitely still drinking lots of wine...
Three years ago, on a desperately cold day in the Himalayan winter of 2006, Tashi and his two friends reached Lhasa after a long trek from their nomadic settlement in Tibet's Ambdo province. From there, they telephoned their families to tell them they were going across the border, to Dharamsala in India, to see the Dalai Lama and get an education. The families were worried - in addition to the risk of being caught fleeing Tibet, the boys faced an even more arduous, monthlong trek through innumerable snow-covered passes. Each was barely out of his teens and had paid...
...That administrative burden has now been lifted. For Fisher, the reversal is especially gratifying since the restrictive Bush policy quashed her experiments in 2002. After a storm hammered San Francisco that winter, the university campus lost power; if not for the backup generators that pumped emergency electricity to its labs, countless cell cultures might have been lost. Fisher's embryonic-stem-cell lab, however, was off the campus grid, housed in a temporary facility built with private funds, which did not have a backup system. It took several days for power to be restored to that site, during which time...
It’s that time of year—winter is staging a last stand, the United States and South Korea are playing their yearly war games, and North Korea is threatening the region. This time, though, Kim Jong-Il’s rogue state forces us to ask whether it is merely crying wolf again. With more pressing issues on its plate, the United States can not cater to North Korea’s pouting...