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photo credit: Darwin BellSTORES Magazine has just published an interesting article based on research by BIGresearch that details just which product and services consumers can’t live without as they tighten their belts and which are expendable. Here are the top 10 things that the research indicates that people will continue to pay for [...] More: [...]

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photo credit: Mr.ThomasWouldn’t it be great to be in business for self? You wake up in the morning, you get your cup of coffee, get your newspaper, put on your slippers and go into your office. All day long you work while relaxing in your pajamas and reclining office chair. What a great dream [...] [...]

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Digtriad.com:Hard economic times are acting like instant fertilizer on an industry that had been growing slowly: home vegetable gardening.Amid the Washington talk of “shovel-ready” recession projects, it appears few projects are more shovel-ready than backyard gardens. Veggie seed sales are up double-digits at the nation’s biggest seed sellers this year.What’s more, the number of homes [...]

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Los Angeles Times:Larry Levine is hard at work in a sketchy apartment complex in Canoga Park, a noisy and joyless place with an enclosed courtyard that resembles a prison cellblock.Upstairs in the back, behind a blanket blocking the light of day, Levine paces his cramped one-bedroom. Stacks of law books purchased on EBay crowd the [...]

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The New York Times:Terry Gardner, a legal secretary in California, shaved her head for an advertising campaign by Air New Zealand, which had hired her to display a temporary tattoo. She turned around and showed the message, written in henna on the back of her head: “Need A Change? Head Down to New Zealand.” Gardner [...]

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