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...resident remembered a minor tsunami from decades ago, how it sucked the water out of a canal and then came back as a six-inch wall of water. "It didn't crest or foam," he recalled, "it was a wall." Locals in Hawaii know which areas to worry about when a tsunami warning goes off. Phonebooks have maps in the front indicating the likeliest inundation zones. Authorities also know which harbors to evacuate. That's why as soon as state officials were notified about the tsunami rippling out from the quake in Chile, ships were evacuated from the harbors...
...removed from the new President's vision. Indeed, it suggested that a tipping point had been reached, foreshadowing the fierce resistance to health care reform in a nation where most people were already insured, and most of those seemed content with the status quo. Far from riding history's crest, Obama found himself shouting into the wind. A year into his presidency, two things stand out: the easy history has been made, and it's simpler to change our leaders than ourselves...
Suddenly, we glimpsed what distinctly seemed to be a familiar well-trimmed afro disappearing at the crest of the staircase, and we pushed our way through the crowd of three people in hot pursuit. What fate had grasped C.? Was a fight brewing? Or had it been a feminine grace that had led him upstairs, and had he found true love? He was nowhere to be seen in the upstairs hallway. We began to feel great concern and a twinge of jealousy...
...fact, Procter & Gamble, the $79 billion consumer-goods giant, is even taking a bet on the blades. The maker of mass-market products such as Tide detergent, Crest toothpaste and Ivory soap purchased the Art of Shaving in June for an undisclosed sum. P&G's move surprised some analysts, as it represented the company's first real foray into retail, which has struggled during the downturn. "You kind of wonder what they are doing here," says Linda Bolton Weiser, equity research analyst at Caris & Co. "When companies start to veer off their main focus, it often doesn't work...
Good riddance. Of course, the retailers risk cannibalizing their 2010 sales by offering such juicy deals at Christmastime. "The question is, Are we sucking the demand out of the first part of next year?" asks Hargreaves, the Pacific Crest Securities analyst. Perhaps. But that's of no concern to the consumer. For shoppers, cheap electronics in the aisles bring nothing but holiday cheer...