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The death of British retail is not nigh
We all knew this was going to be a difficult Christmas for retailers. The week before the big day, the shops were empty - even though the sales were already in full swing - and the doom-sayers were predicting that the days of the high street were numbered. After a tough year - what with interest rate increases, the credit squeeze, doom and gloom surrounding house prices - the canny shoppers were not going near the shops. A record number opted out altogether and went abroad. But many simply stayed at home, preferring to find bargains online. .
Hansen: Experts split on effects Drake's wins bring off court
Holsker, a psychology major from Belvidere, Ill., was so sure Monday, she kept checking online to find out how high the men's team had climbed in the national rankings. (They're 16th, up from 22nd last week.)
Hoping to get good seats for the game against the University of Northern Iowa on Saturday, Holsker and her friends arrived at the Knapp Center almost two hours before tipoff. Twenty students were already in line.
With 17 straight victories following all those disappointing seasons, everything changes. The nearest empty parking space is suddenly located in Windsor Heights. The gatekeepers are turning people away. It's safe to say that, after this season, Drake fans have seen the last of those tickets-hot dogs-everything-for-a-dollar specials.
While Holsker was hitting the refresh button Monday, Katie Wilz was trying to keep up with the lines at the University Book Store.
Reprieve defies hard facts for small schools
The modern equivalent of Oliver Goldsmith's 18th century Deserted Village sees an influx of second homers and retirees who help push young families with kids towards the town. That creates demographic pressures at both ends which Whitehall's annual grant settlement with local authorities fails to capture, being based on outdated 2001 census figures. Unlike migration patterns via Dover and Heathrow, a net town-to-country migration of 80,000 people a year goes largely unremarked, though it helps pile up rural Tory majorities where David Cameron does not need them. Yesterday the Conservative schools spokesman, Michael Gove, claimed that government policy on surplus places has "contributed" to almost 220 closures of small schools since 1997. Ministers - and outsiders - say Labour has stemmed the closure rate from 30 a year to about seven.
Cold turkey is no way to quit e-addiction
It's been two weeks since my last major dose. I've been pretty much cold turkey ever since. Sure, I've mooched off of my roommates when they weren't around. It's the advantage of having several other users living with me. Without them, I might be writhing half-naked in a cold sweat somewhere. I've even managed to sneak a couple hits during class, until my professors call me out for "double-tasking." Not the worst chiding one could expect for ignoring the lesson in search of mere minutes of euphoria. Despite the challenges, I'm really surprised how well I've held up since that fateful day at the beginning of the semester when my livelihood and my love was ripped violently from my hands. It's at that time that a blunt realization came to me.
Don't be a Super Bowl statistic
Men suffered more game-day events than women, and people with a known history of heart disease were hit especially hard. Those high-risk patients sustained heart attacks on game days at a rate four times higher than usual.
The researchers did not address the role of important risk factors such as cigarette smoking, alcohol and food consumption, said Dr. Charles Davidson, chief of the cardiac catheterization lab at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. But he said the link between heart-related events and high-stakes games appeared solid.
"I think they did the study about as well as you could do it," Davidson said.
Heart complaints appeared to be worst during dramatic or important games. The rate of heart events reached nearly 50 per day during an early match with Poland that Germany won in the final minute and hovered around 60 per day during the quarterfinal against Argentina, which featured a tense penalty shootout, and the semifinal with Italy, which Germany lost.
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