Sharper Image's Dull Financial Prospects

American Voices

February 25, 2008 | ISSUE 44•09

High-end gadget retailer The Sharper Image filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. What do you think?

Thankfully, if any company can weather this kind of storm, it's the one that sells $200 umbrellas.

Karl Ryssdal
Back Hoe Operator
What am I supposed to spend my economic stimulus check on if not a vibrating recliner with cup holders?

Jenny Babbin
Cashier
Never in a million years did I think the American consumer would lose its hunger for expensive, useless products

Jack Dimsdale
Systems Analyst

U.S. Cuts Aid To Pakistan

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The Senate Appropriations Committee voted 30-0 to cut aid to Pakistan by $33 million after the country’s government arrested and sentenced a doctor who tipped off the United States to Osama bin Laden's location.
'Fifty Shades Of Grey' Series Reaches 10 Million Sales

05.25.12 | ISSUE 48•22

Publishing house Vintage has sold 10 million copies of the erotica trilogy Fifty Shades Of Grey in multiple formats in an astonishing six weeks.
Suspect Arrested In Etan Patz Case

05.24.12 | ISSUE 48•22

A suspect in the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz, the first missing child to be put on a milk carton, was taken into custody.
U.S. Census Overcounted By 36,000

05.24.12 | ISSUE 48•21

A survey revealed that the 2010 census counted an extra 36,000 people, or 0.01 percent, because of duplicate forms and deaths, which is down from the 0.49 percent overcount in the 2000 census.
Egypt Holds First Presidential Elections

05.23.12 | ISSUE 48•21

Fifteen months after Egyptian ruler Hosni Mubarak was deposed, Egyptians voted in their first-ever free presidential elections.