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Most E-mailed news on 23 October 2007 |
The Future Is Drying Up
The West is the fastest-growing part of the country. It?s also the driest. And climate change could be making matters much, much worse.
Buyers Pounce on Deals as Homes Go on the Block
Some investors see the misery of subprime loans, rising mortgage rates and slumping sales as an opportunity.
Libraries Shun Deals to Place Books on Web
Several major research libraries have rebuffed offers from Google and Microsoft to scan their books, instead signing on with a nonprofit effort.
Fearing Crime, Japanese Wear the Hiding Place
Japanese fashion designers are devising a variety of novel solutions that they hope will ease growing fears of crime.
How Many Site Hits? Depends Who?s Counting
Even though online advertising is growing fast, that growth is being stunted, industry executives say, because nobody can get the basic visitor counts straight.
Op-Ed Columnist: Suicide Is Not Painless
Charles D. Riechers, not the first suicide connected to the Iraq war?s corruption scandals, is a window into the culture of the whole debacle.
Op-Ed Columnist: Gone Baby Gone
Alan Greenspan?s latest pronouncement ? that the market rescue plan being pushed by Henry Paulson is likely to make things worse ? looks all too accurate.
Backcountry Belize
Away from the crowded beaches of this popular Central American country is a lush interior, thick with rain forests, Mayan ruins and intricate cave systems that can be explored on an inner tube.
Inch by Inch, Great Lakes Shrink, and Cargo Carriers Face Losses
As water levels in the Great Lakes fall, ships that ferry bulk materials across them must lighten their loads, adding millions to shipping companies? operating costs.
Man In the News: A Son of Immigrants Rises in a Southern State
Bobby Jindal will be the nation?s first Indian-American governor in a state where race is inseparable from politics.
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