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| Department stores add restaurants, cocktail and juice bars to compete with online sellers Upscale brick-and-mortar stores are using food, drink and |
Upscale brick-and-mortar stores are using food, drink and great customer service to lure customers away from online sellers.
If you have the time for it, shopping becomes a mini-vacation. The Tommy Bahama store on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue has features other retailers envy and would like to emulate.
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| Postal workers declare 'victory' after holding six-day hunger strike |
Postal workers declare 'victory' after holding six-day hunger strike
The strikers are calling on postal management to suspend cuts and closures of mail sorting plants. They suggest Congress fix the budgetary problems by repealing the prefunding mandate and refunding the pension surplus instead.
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Posted on Dec 23, 2012 22:37pm by admin
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| Postal workers continue hunger strike against proposed delivery cuts |
Postal workers continue hunger strike against proposed delivery cuts
Six former and current postal workers, part of a group called Communities and Postal Workers United, are calling the strike “six days starving to save six-day delivery.” Their goal is to stop Congress from reducing postal delivery to five days a week.
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| Blizzards will have names like hurricanes |
The Weather Channel is taking on a new responsibility: naming winter blizzards.
The new naming system will use Greek and Roman names. The first three are Athena, Brutus and Caesar. The names will always be used in alphabetical order.
Storm naming will occur no more than three days before a winter storm's expected impact. The most important factors will be expected snowfall, ice accumulations and wind speed, say analysts writing in USA Today.
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Posted on Dec 02, 2012 20:22pm by admin
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| Television bets on the Western hat image |
You don't have to be a cowboy to wear a wide-brimmed hat on TV.
This season, not only oil men like J.R. in Dallas are wearing them, but a Georgia deputy sheriff fighting vampires in The Walking Dead wears a cowboy hat too. And new sheriffs in various series and states wear them to achieve that rugged Western look.
The surprise of 2012 is that so many Western-themed series are featured. Novelist Craig Johnson explains it by saying, "Every culture has its iconoclastic imagery. The Japanese have the samurai; the Europeans have the knight in shining armor. For better or worse, the stereotypical imagery of America has always been someone with a cowboy hat."
Johnson's books about a Wyoming sheriff are the basis of A&E's new Longmire, with Robert Taylor.
In the new drama series, Vegas,
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Posted on Oct 02, 2012 21:44pm by admin
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| Blue light from smartphones and tablets interrupts sleep |
Americans have become so addicted to their smartphones and tablets that many sleep with them. Others keep the devices on the night table, where they can look at them or pick them up to check email or surf the Internet.
The medical community is concerned, because the type of light produced by electronic screens can contribute to sleep loss. After using them or looking at them, it's very difficult to go back to sleep.
Steven Lockley, a Harvard Medical School sleep researcher, says...
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Posted on Oct 02, 2012 21:25pm by admin
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| Technology changes deter car thieves |
For a decade of more, car makers and manufacturers of locking devices have been a step ahead of criminals.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation's 2010 tally showed a 74 percent decline in car thefts nationwide from the previous year. It was the seventh straight decline.
Designing technology to deter theft is an evolving game. As new systems are devised, thieves learn to adapt.
Some ways engineers are changing car security:
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Posted on Sep 01, 2012 19:46pm by admin
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