Online Sales Expected To Grow 17 Percent

Online spending is expected to rise a robust 17% this year, despite a sluggish economy that has bruised many brick-based retailers.  With sales expected to top $204 billion this year, it seems the Internet is the continual rising star for the retail industry. To capture the dollars this year will require more sophisticated marketing efforts.

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Dad's Favorite Inventions of 2008

There is no doubt in anyone's mind that the greatest invention for men is the universal remote.  While it will certainly take a great deal to knock that from the number one spot, here are some inventions for this year (2008) that we think could make the list for the best inventions made for men.

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2008 Food and Travel Gadgets

While we would agree that the "e-ticket" and microwave oven has redefined both the airport line and the kitchen. If you don't agree ask any traveler who was running late to the airport or a college student living in a dormitory.  Here are some new inventions for 2008 that we think food and travel lovers will love too.

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Best Inventions for Mom

Mom's everywhere would agree that disposal diapers are the best invention of all time.  With that in mind here are some new inventions for 2008 that might get mom's just as excited.

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Young and Violent: 10 Signs of Troubled Teenagers

Margaret Ross, Kamaron Institute founder was recently featured in Associated Press news story about teen violence.


BY MEGAN K. SCOTT
ASSOCIATED PRESS

 One young man had a history of depression and drug abuse. Another was said to closely follow the Columbine case and reject help from counselors. And a fight at school appears to have provoked a third.Three shooting rampages in a one-week span have refocused attention on troubled youth: a 19-year-old man opened fire at a Nebraska mall, killing eight people and himself; a 24-year-old man killed four people at a megachurch and a missionary training school in Colorado and then killed himself; and two gunmen who wounded six students at a school bus stop in Nevada, following a fight about a girl....

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