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SportsBiz: Golf industry gets hit hard: The economic meltdown is hitting the golf industry hard. More courses are scheduled to close in the U.S. this year (nearly 100) than the 80 expected to open. ›16:08
Do Women Lead Differently Than Men?: Americans could elect our first female president in 2008. What the most powerful women of the past can teach us about how to rule in the future. ›21:39 6 Oct, Sat
Hotels offer outrageous perks for your pets: Massages, happy hours, and monogrammed towelsfor pets. Its just another dog day at these fine hotels. ›18:04
Book Excerpt: Vegetable Dishes I Cant Live Without: A book excerpt by Mollie Katzen. ›21:49 6 Oct, Sat
Experts offer range of ideas for Big Three: Auto industry experts have a wide range of ideas on how to fix the problems facing the Big Three, ranging from higher gas taxes to bankruptcy. Here is a sampling of their views. ›20:37
Sound of Music hotel plan hits sour note: The Austrian city of Salzburg has blocked plans to open a hotel in a former home of the von Trapp family immortalized in The Sound of Music after protests by neighbors. ›17:24
The phone that feels the flu before you do: Did your parents tell you to remember your scarf when you went out, so you wouldn't catch a cold? Today, the advice might be: Remember your cell phone. ›22:42
New hope on AIDS in Africa: In a sign of hope on a continent ravaged by AIDS, a South African fertility clinic has started a service allowing couples infected with the virus to have a healthy baby. ›12:20 1 Dec, Mon
Newsweek: Do the Big Three deserve $34 billion?: Newsweek: Do the Big Three deserve $34 billion? ›15:13 2 Dec, Tue
Harvard's endowment takes $8 billion hit: Harvard University says its endowment has tumbled $8 billion in the four months since the end of the last fiscal year. ›14:07
Technology may be altering how brains work: Some scientists think the wired world may be changing the way we read, learn and interact with each other. ›19:01
NYT: Obama faces delicate task with CIA: The president-elect must take charge of the CIA in what is proving to be one of the more treacherous patches of the transition. ›05:48
Travel pinched by global financial crisis: Many major cities around the world are seeing dramatic declines in hotel occupancy this fall as consumers and businesses cut travel spending. ›15:51 2 Dec, Tue
German priest finds live baby in manger: Police say a troubled mother laid a baby boy in the manger of a church nativity in hopes that someone would find and care for him. ›23:06
Mumbai gunman promised cash: The only gunman captured during the terror attack on Mumbai says he was promised that his impoverished family would get $1,250 if he died fighting for militant Islam, security officials said Wednesday. ›23:19
Brand-name drugs no better than generics: There is no evidence that brand-name drugs given to treat heart and other cardiovascular conditions work any better than their cheaper generic counterparts, U.S. researchers said. ›21:35 2 Dec, Tue
Gross: Banks Claim the Credit Crisis is Over. It's Not.: Banks insist their credit problems are over. Why on earth do investors believe them? ›21:31 9 Oct, Tue
India siege raises concerns at U.S. hotels: The deadly attack in India had far-reaching implications for police and private security officials in New York and other U.S. cities. ›16:20
Buffett's Constellation bid challenged again: France's state-controlled power company challenged a proposed takeover by Warren Buffett of Constellation Energy Wednesday. ›15:17
If not for his attitude, Weis might not be on hot seat: While Charlie Weis awaits his fate at Notre Dame, Michael Rosenberg says Weis' attitude is one reason he's on the hot seat. ›00:28 01 Dec, Mon
Cars: Wheres the Perfect Part?: In the past, finding the perfect part for a classic-car restoration meant joining enthusiast clubs, hanging around swap meets and pawing through junkyards. How the Web has revolutionized the hunt. ›16:21 9 Oct, Tue
Victim's kin sue in Wal-Mart stampede death: The family of a worker trampled to death in a "Black Friday" crush of bargain hunters at a Long Island Wal-Mart store claims in a lawsuit that store ads offering deep discounts led to "crowd craze." ›21:57
Q&A: Policing School Shootings: A disturbed 14-year-old wounds four before killing himself in Clevelandjust another spasm of violence in another bloody year for Americas schools. How to spot trouble before it opens fireand the ongoing debate over blame for a cycle that just wont stop. ›23:25 11 Oct, Thu
Doris Lessings Nobel Prize: The unpredictable curmudgeon has written about everything from feminism to sci-fi to cats (twice). ›15:18 12 Oct, Fri
