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The National Retail Federation (NRF), the world's largest retail trade association, projects that November and December sales will rise only 2.2% to $470 billion, an increase that would fall well below the 10-year average of 4.4% holiday sales growth and would mark the most sluggish season since 2002...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking Ahead to a Blue Christmas | 10/7/2008 | See Source »

The market had initially been buoyed by decisions that occurred before it opened - both the Fed's decision to buy the short-term debt, called commercial paper, that companies issue to fund expenses like payroll and inventory, and the Reserve Bank of Australia's surprising decision to cut its official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wall Street's Crisis: When All News is Bad News | 10/7/2008 | See Source »

Murray is among just a handful of public intellectuals who are willing to talk openly about these statistics. Most remain fearful, because such a suggestion is so counter to our feel-good conceptions of social mobility. But there is nothing about this evidence that should make us uncomfortable. The idea...

Author: By Lucy M. Caldwell | Title: Speaking Truth To Test Scores | 10/7/2008 | See Source »

"If the baby was already in a good sleeping environment, there wasn't very much chance they were 'rebreathing,'" says Dr. De-Kun Li of Kaiser Permanente's Division of Research and a co-author of the study, referring to the re-inhalation of carbon dioxide that is associated with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fans Reduce Infants' Sudden Death Risk | 10/6/2008 | See Source »

Just as these individual moments reflect the spirit of candidates and citizens, the election itself acts as a microcosm for American society. This year’s face-off, in all its minute moments, plays like the trailer to an epic film about American life, starring all the A-listers?...

Author: By Jessica A. Sequeira | Title: In a Nutshell | 10/6/2008 | See Source »

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