| SATURDAY INTERVIEW; Seeking a Joint Effort for Greener Athletic Shoes Jeffrey B. Swartz, the chief executive of Timberland, discusses the challenges to making environmental progress in the shoe industry.... nytimes.com |
SF Woman Sentenced For Stealing Purses, Wallets (KGO-TV Bay Area) A 27-year-old woman was sentenced to four years in state prison for stealing victims' identifications by snatching their purses and wallets, San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris has announced. us.rd.yahoo.com |
Repairing Solar Array Is New Focus of Spacewalk (New York Times) Mission managers at NASA have put off a spacewalk in order to focus on repairing a torn solar panel on the International Space Station. us.rd.yahoo.com |
Cotton tour gives jeans new life (College Heights Herald) A new house can now be built thanks to the jeans, skirts, purses and other denim materials some Western students decided they didn't need. For the last two months, students have dropped off their denim to "Cotton, from Blue to Green," a denim drive organized by the Public Relations Student Society of America. us.rd.yahoo.com |
ONLINE SHOPPING (The State) As consumers hold tight to their wallets, online retailers will work harder this year for their share of the holiday gift list. With the numbers of new online customers leveling off, more Web retailers have been pushing special offers and promotions to draw consumers. As the online holiday shopping season officially kicked off Monday, a number of retailers were hosting special offers for the ... us.rd.yahoo.com |