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Higher rates! Bigger fees! In recent weeks, you've heard plenty about the sleazy side of the subprime mortgage business. Rising numbers of borrowers are losing their homes after being lured into high-...

What do babies know? As Daniel Haworth is settled into a high chair and wheeled behind a black screen, a sudden look of worry furrows his 9-month-old brow. His dark blue eyes dart left and right in se...

Limited resourcesIt's been nearly a week since Canadian pet-food manufacturer Menu Foods Inc. recalled some 60 million cans and pouches of wet food linked to the deaths of at least 15 cats and one dog...

Microsoft brings instant chat toTV screen, through games Microsoft planned to announce today that it will make its Windows Live Messenger service available on its Xbox 360 game consoles, bringing inst...

Moment of truthNo sooner did James McCarthy's name turn up in an Associated Press story on the outlook for global warming than he started getting outraged e-mails from colleagues. All that McCarthy, a...

The world since September 11thIT STANDS to reason that 19 men cannot change history. But they did. Five years and two American-led wars later, the world created by the September 11th hijackers is a da...

Federal reserve:Difference of opinionTHE outcome was never in doubt. On December 12th America's central bank kept shortterm interest rates unchanged at 5.25%. What mattered was the statement accomp...

When the cure is not worth the costThanks to research by the National Institutes of Health and academic scientists during the last three decades, we now have proven treatments for depression, addictio...

Passage 16 Tea drinking was common in China for nearly one thousand years before anyone in Europe had ever heard about tea. People in Britain were much slower in finding out what tea was like, mainly ...

Passage 17A mysteriousblack cloudapproaches the earth-our planet's weather is severely affected.Throughout the rest of June and July temperatures rose steadily all over the Earth. In the British isles...