Friday, November 26, 2010

Friday's Top News: Black Friday: Can Retailers Rebound with Discount-Minded Shoppers?

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Black Friday: Can Retailers Rebound with Discount-Minded Shoppers?

By Janet Morrissey

As American shoppers head into Black Friday, industry experts predict holiday sales will surpass last year's dismal levels, but it will likely take heavy promotions and big discounting to achieve this

After Ireland: Who Will Be Next to Need a Bailout?

By Leo Cendrowicz / Brussels

Hope was that the rescue package for Ireland would succeed in stabilizing the euro, but the jittery markets have now added Italy and Belgium to their list of precarious states. How many bailouts will there be before the single currency is safe?

China's Kidnap Victims Search for Their Families

By Austin Ramzy / Shanghai

Beginning in the late 1980s, countless children in China have been kidnapped and sold to other families. Many victims are now seeking their true parents and siblings. Here is one man's story

More Proof That Vikings Were First to America

By Lisa Abend

Scientists have found a genetic link that they say could offer further evidence that Vikings were in America 500 years before Christopher Columbus set foot in the New World

Krav Maga: Israeli Self-Defense Goes Global

By David Kaufman / Netanya

Bored by the beach in Tel Aviv? Go take a lesson in the self-defense practice Krav Maga -- a workout that can literally save your life

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Krav Maga: Israeli Self-Defense Goes Global

By David Kaufman / Netanya

Bored by the beach in Tel Aviv? Go take a lesson in the self-defense practice Krav Maga -- a workout that can literally save your life

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