...pitch once meant more than hitting profitability. Not anymore. "Everything is driven by the bottom line," said Michael Hodgson, co-owner of Specialty News, an outdoor retail trade journal who tracks REI and its thousands of vendors. "I'm...

...receiving payments under the new law, Jemison said. That's among a total of nearly 700,000 who served. Dr. Michael Hodgson, associate professor of medicine at the University of Connecticut, who has consulted with veterans groups on gulf...