Thrift stores are thriving The Roanoke Times | Discount retailers, particularly thrift and consignment stores, are thriving right now. | With widespread job loss and tightened credit and consumer spending, Americans are looking for a break. | A surge in thrift and consignment sales and shopping activity is part of the reason that these kinds o...
Downturn dating: Hearts flutter as markets stutter The Examiner Comments CHICAGO (Map, News) - Credit the recession for "staycations" and bringing us more game-night parties at home. But also give it a shout for spurring more first dates. | Economic woes, it seems, unleash something practically primal in many of ...
Markets stutter, hearts flutter The Miami Herald | CHICAGO -- Credit the recession for staycations and bringing us more game-night parties at home. But also give it a shout for spurring more first dates. | Economic woes, it seems, unleash something practically primal in many of us who find ourselve...
Thrift stores are thriving The Roanoke Times | Discount retailers, particularly thrift and consignment stores, are thriving right now. | With widespread job loss and tightened credit and consumer spending, Americans are looking for a break. | A surge in thrift and consignment sales and shopping...
Elliston: On a different track, from farmland to intermodal site The Roanoke Times | The Roanoke Times | File April Frank Howard imagines a day when he won't have a choice but to pack up and leave the family farm in Elliston. | SHAOZHUO CUI Special to The Roanoke Times | The land that would be occupied by the railroad project is lo...
Names and changes The Roanoke Times | EDUCATION | ALI BUTT, assistant professor of computer science at Virginia Tech, has been selected to participate in National Academy of Engineering's 2009 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering symposium, as one of 88 of the nation's brightest engineers. | ...
Economic malaise seems to be driving dating Knox News | CHICAGO - Credit the recession for staycations and bringing us more game-night parties at home. But also give it a shout for spurring more first dates. | Economic woes, it seems, unleash something practically primal in many of us who find ou...
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STUDY: Coal's costs outweigh benefits Energy Current 6/22/2009 | By Ken Ward Jr., The Charleston Gazette | CHARLESTON, W.VA.: Coal mining costs Appalachians five times more in early deaths as the industry provides to the region in jo...
R. Allen Stanford surrenders to FBI in Va. Syracuse | (AP) - DALLAS - Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford, chairman of the troubled Stanford Financial Group, surrendered to FBI agents in Virginia Thursday afternoon, his attorney sai...
China says unpopular filtering software optional The Examiner Comments BEIJING (Map, News) - China appeared to cave in to public pressure Tuesday by announcing that computer users are not required to install Internet-filtering software - thou...
Downturn dating: Hearts flutter as markets stutter Houston Chronicle | CHICAGO - Credit the recession for staycations and bringing us more game-night parties at home. But also give it a shout for spurring more first dates. | Economic woes, it seems, unleash something practically primal in many of us who find ourselves...
Downturn dating: Hearts flutter as markets stutter Kansas City Star Stacie Freudenberg Hosts, Bathsheba Birman, left, and Julia Borcherts, split up the entrance fees for the singles event, Nerds at Heart, at the Holiday Club in Chicago, Thursday, July 2, 2009. Attendance at the monthly gatherings, where mostly young ...
Downturn Dating: Hearts Flutter as Markets Stutter The New York Times | Filed at 12:04 p.m. ET | CHICAGO (AP) -- Credit the recession for staycations and bringing us more game-night parties at home. But also give it a shout for spurring more first dates. | Economic woes, it seems, unleash something practically primal i...
Downturn dating: Hearts flutter as markets stutter The Miami Herald | CHICAGO -- Credit the recession for staycations and bringing us more game-night parties at home. But also give it a shout for spurring more first dates. | Economic woes, it seems, unleash something practically primal in many of us who find ourselve...
Bleak Times Set the Tone at Paris Air Show The New York Times | The 100th Paris Air Show takes place this year against a backdrop of tragedy and economic stress. Skip to next paragraph Related Aviation's Huge Debt to the French (June 15, 2009) | It Will Take More Than People to Save Airlines (June 15, 2009) | Grim Outlook Persists for Asian Airlines (June 15, 2009) | Brazilian Jet Maker Expects to Outlast Cri...