Novelties: A Buyer?s Guide to Inventions, in Plain English
A Web-based service under development offers a new tool intended to help with the matchmaking of inventors and companies.
Losing a Home, Then Losing All Out of Storage
The foreclosure crisis is hitting the self-storage center, and some companies are auctioning off the property of people who cannot keep up with their bills.
Fair Game: Big Rescues Can Work. Just Ask New York.
Felix Rohatyn, a financier and former U.S. Ambassador, was central player in the 1975 plan that saved New York City from bankruptcy.
Market Maker: A Peek Behind the Price at the Pump
Federal gas taxes are only one part of the prices at the pump and a harder-to-control factor is emerging as a main reason behind the increase in energy costs: the sinking dollar.
Fundamentally: How to Tell if a Rally Is Real
In fits and starts, blue-chip stocks have been climbing higher since mid-March. But many market watchers aren?t convinced that the worst of this market storm is behind us
Almighty: The Dollar: Shrinkable but (So Far) Unsinkable
What are the chances that a day of reckoning is coming, when the dollar would be so weak that America would have to play by the rules that apply to every other country?
In the Region | Westchester: Parking Space as Living Space?
A report suggested using land in office parks for moderate-cost housing, but officials are wary.
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Everybody?s Business: You Can?t Make This Stuff Up, or Can You?
In my heart, I would like my son to be a real-life counterpart of a character on my latest imaginary TV series brainchild: ?The Hedges of Greenwich, Conn.?
That Must Be Bob at the Door. I Hear His New Hip Squeaking.
Many patients with artificial hips made of ceramic hips say they have begun to squeak, interfering with their daily life.
The Promise and Perils of Ceramics in Artificial Hips
After an initial rush of orders of ceramic hip replacements, sales have dropped on concerns over squeaking.
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