Detours: a country in search of direction
On the eve of the election, a reporter and photographer set out for Washington, via America. We tell stories from seven towns, touching on seven issues from politics and real life.
Friday Night Rewind It doesn't matter which team you cheer for. We've got video previews of every high school football program in Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco and Hernando County.
Game show themes
These themes are probably going to make some of you have flashbacks to wasted mornings or afternoons spent sprawled in front of the TV.
In a sign of the times, Bloomingdale's will kill its mail-order catalog in 2009 to save paper and invest more in its fast-growing online shopping site bloomingdales.com that is headed toward $1-billion in sales this year. The high-end department store unit of Macy's Inc. said the restructuring will be done over the next eight months. Bloomingdale's opened fulfillment centers in the past year in Arizona and Tennessee to serve the dot.com business. Most mail-order retailers have been slowly shifting to online operations over the past decade, usually mailing their catalogs to stimulate customers who ask for them to browse new selections. Bloomingdale's will continue mailing smaller advertising circulars.
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