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Whether it is consumer prices, raw material costs or the fines levied on miscreant corporations, all signs pointed up this week. Read more..

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For all the improvements in computer security, using the Internet is growing only more dangerous — both at home and at work. Read more..

By DAN MITCHELL - The New York Times

Robert Stephens has made a very good living solving the problems of technophobes and people who thought they were technically adept. Read more..

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The chief executive of Qwest Communications discusses challenges ahead for the smallest of the four big Bell phone companies. Read more..

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The American Society of Hypertension is in the midst of a dispute over the influence of drug industry money. Read more..

By STEPHANIE SAUL - The New York Times

If the housing boom is finally nearing an end, it is clear from regional activity in both apartment and single-family home construction, that it was an unusual boom. Read more..

By FLOYD NORRIS - The New York Times

When my father asked me for help with his life insurance, I naïvely assumed it would be a straightforward matter of dollars and cents. Read more..

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