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| Fri, 18 Nov 2005 12:00:00 EST Let the shopping begin |
| How good—or disappointing—will this year's holiday shopping season be? We'll get a better sense next week, on the day after Thanksgiving. That Friday, which is often referred to as Black Friday, is not only one of the busiest shopping days of the year, it's typically a harbinger for the rest of the Christmas retail season. |
| Fri, 18 Nov 2005 12:00:00 EST Testicular cancer risk rises with infertility |
| Testicular cancer is the most common form of cancer among young men, and it often produces no symptoms. Researchers have now identified a big one: Men who are infertile and have abnormal sperm counts are more than 20 times as likely to have testicular cancer as other men. A team of researchers from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center reviewed the records of more than 3,800 men with infertility or abnormal counts and found that 10 had testicular tumors. |
| Fri, 18 Nov 2005 08:00:00 EST From salesman to movie producer |
| Is a sales call pointless? That's the obvious contention of Marc Miller, coauthor of the book Selling Is Dead. Miller, who is head of a sales and marketing consultancy called Sogistics, says sales techniques need to change in the Internet age. For a small business, merely visiting and pitching your wares to a potential customer isn't enough, especially since anyone can find out about your products or services on the Web. Instead, salespeople must help customers become more productive and innovative and show how their goods might play a role in that. "Salespeople have to find new types of problems they've never before solved, and they have to help their customers attain objectives that may only loosely be part of their traditional value propositions," Miller writes me in an E-mail. A couple of examples of how to do that: |
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| Fri, 18 Nov 2005 23:34:06 EST Defense official: Rumsfeld given Iraq withdrawal plan |
| A withdrawal plan for U.S. troops in Iraq has been submitted to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld by the top U.S. commander in Iraq, according to a senior defense official. The plan, submitted by Gen. George Casey, has numerous options, and recommends that brigades begin leaving Iraq by early 2006, the source said. Details of the plan come as lawmakers' rhetoric on the Iraq war heated up in Washington, and at the end of another day of violence in Iraq -- where two bombings killed at least 90 people. |
| Sat, 19 Nov 2005 05:03:39 EST Iraq: We stay in fight, says Bush |
| In a speech before U.S. troops who stand watch along the Korean frontier, U.S. President George W. Bush offered his latest rebuttal to Democratic calls to bring American troops home from Iraq, vowing to "stay in the fight until we have achieved the victory our brave troops have fought for." |
| Sat, 19 Nov 2005 01:17:04 EST APEC: Trade talk progress needed |
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