| Retailers chant wellness mantra
MUMBAI: After fast moving consumer goods companies contracted the fast spreading health and wellness fever in the country, it is the turn of retailers to cash in. Three months after the first wellness store by Mukesh Ambanis Reliance Retail was launched in Hyderabad, Maharashtra gets its first in Mumbai. Armed with 8,000 stock keeping units and spread over 3,100 square feet, this specialty store will provide customers products in the categories such as medicines, sports nutrition, personal care and beauty, cosmetics, opticals, OTC, health foods, self help medical and fitness equipment. Even books on yoga and health and massaging chairs. Himalaya Drugs is also expanding its retail presence and has over 150 retail stores, aiming to double this number by 2009.
Oceans’ Growing Acidity Alarms Scientists
It seems like it is a one-way street, and that is alarming," said Steven Emerson, a professor of oceanography at the University of Washington. "The pH of the oceans could be lowered permanently." Emerson was the lead scientist on the team that built the buoy at Ocean Station Papa, where weather measurements have been taken since the 1940s. The 10-foot-diameter buoy is equipped with an array of sensors that, among other things, measure the amount of carbon dioxide that's being absorbed by the North Pacific and the pH, or acid levels, of the ocean. Anchored in water 5,000 feet deep, the buoy relays its information to onshore scientists via satellite. Of all the oceans in the world, the North Pacific could be the most vulnerable to acidification. As the oceans' deepest waters circulate around the globe, they eventually arrive in the North Pacific, where they rise near the surface before plunging deep again to continue their global journey.
Corrections and clarifications
Mary's health care systems incorrectly stated that the Columbia Center did in vitro fertilization procedures. The hospital, which recently moved to Columbia St. Mary's Hospital Ozaukee in Mequon, does not provide the service. 12/11/07 An article Friday in the Business section about retail sales in November misstated Kohl's sales projections for the fourth quarter of the fiscal year. Kohl's Corp. continues to expect same-store sales to be flat to down 2%, not flat to up 2%. 12/7/07 The video column today in the Weekend Cue section incorrectly states that "High School Musical 2" was the most-watched basic cable show ever. The New England-Baltimore NFL game Monday on ESPN was seen by an average of 17.5 million viewers; the premiere of "High School Musical 2" last summer was watched by an average of 17.2 million.
Dallas, I love you, but I've found Austin
Just about everybody who served or worked with Harriet Miers during her brief political career in Dallas remembers her as a hard-working, fair-minded moderate. When the Dallas political spectrum is properly framed against the national matrix, that means many people elsewhere will view her as a right-wing Christian nut case. .
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