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...third element is pretty simple too. If you have a family, leave your kids at home when you shop. We know today that people spend 40% more in a supermarket when their kids are with them. The psychology is very interesting. When the recession is running at its peak, the last group in the world you as a parent want to penalize is the kids. You will say to yourself, "I'm in a recession right now, I can cope with it, that's fine, but my kids should never suffer for me." When you finally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Shoppers Make Decisions in a Recession | 5/18/2009 | See Source »

...answers were so varied that analysts nearly ran out of codes to categorize them. "The U.S. has an unmatched religious dynamism," explains Lugo. "It's an open religious marketplace as well as a very competitive one. This is the supermarket cereal aisle." Without an established state religion, all faiths can freely exist in the U.S. but must compete for adherents in order to survive. (See pictures of a drive-in church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Church-Shopping: Why Americans Change Faiths | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

...setting pick “had something to do with wanting to survive as a writer. Sooner or later it would be nice if I could make my publisher some money.” It’s not that “Lowboy” belongs at a supermarket checkout counter, but the more I read the more I realized he was telling me things I already knew. A great novel is magical—this was more like an eerily accurate palm reading, skillfully executed and titillating in its own way, but content to keep...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Style Forces Substance Underground | 4/24/2009 | See Source »

...Their life stories, as told in countless profiles, are oddly similar. Potts, 39, was raised in a scuzzy part of Bristol, England, we're told, by a bus-driver dad and supermarket-cashier mom. Boyle, 48, was one of nine children whose father worked in a car factory and mother in a typing pool. At school they were both bullied. When he turned up in front of the judges, Potts was a dentally challenged mobile phone salesman, wearing a $50 suit from the supermarket chain Tescos. Boyle, with her gold dress, black hose, white shoes and hedgerow eyebrows, was unemployed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Susan Boyle: Not Quite Out of Nowhere | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

...coming years, and its chosen method of distributing the money is often those same village committees. "The push is on for rural community development centers that include such things as health care clinics, deciding who qualifies for government relief, conflict resolution centers, libraries, even sometimes a small supermarket," says Liu. "This anticipates the return of the migrant workers so that they will feel they are being taken care of when they go home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More and More, Rural China Is Going to the Polls | 4/21/2009 | See Source »

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