In a study of nearly 1,000 people, researchers at Leiden University Medical Center found that the more cigarettes smoked, the greater the risk of this cancer. Those who smoked 21 or more cigarettes a day quadrupled their risk. So add skin cancer to the growing list of tobacco ills. And for the vain, don't forget smoking-related wrinkles. Now you can bargain-hunt well into the New Year without getting out of your pajamas.
Analysts caution against reading the discounts as more signs of dot-com distress.
True, the holiday E-commerce kitty, like the offline retail take, fell below expectations. Many Web retailers overstocked to avoid last year's holiday sellouts. World Report Inc. All rights reserved.