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Patients to rate and review their GPs on NHS website

Investors are preparing to close out the last three trading days of 2008, a year in which Wall Street has logged its worst performance since Herbert Hoover was president. The ongoing recession and global economic shock pummeled stocks this year, with the Dow Jones industrial…

Wall St. closes out on 2008, year of record losses

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IndyMac Is Set to Be Sold to Private Investors

Amazon’s Christmas Miracle

Retailers hope for post-Christmas miracle

Keeping Homes By Taking In Boarders

One family-owned company in Rhode Island makes the great majority of communion bread used by churches in America, Australia, Canada and Britain.

Bread of life, baked in Rhode Island

Housing Starts Fall Through the Floor

Banks that are getting taxpayer bailouts awarded their top executives nearly $1.6 billion in salaries, bonuses, and other benefits in the calendar year 2007, an Associated Press analysis reveals. The rewards came even at banks where poor results last year foretold the economic crisis that sent.

AP study finds $1.6B went to bailed-out bank execs 

We follow the economic downturn and its impact on the tech industry, from the industry giants to the scrappy start-ups.

Tracking the tech downturn

America’s Best Long-Term Real Estate Bets

Stay home, authorities tell drivers in northern U.S.

‘The Trials of Ted Haggard’ In the midst of the controversy over Pastor Rick Warren delivering the invocation at the…

Ted Haggard’s Re-Gifting: Documentary on Disgraced Pastor to Air on HBO in January

Exposed by erosion at the edge of a crumbling bluff, the pit discovered beneath 2 feet of sandy dirt at first appeared to be a grave just long and deep enough to bury a human body. Excavation by archaeologists on Ossabaw Island revealed something more puzzling – just a few…

American Indian cremation pit found on Ga. island 

SEC chairman says agency failed to probe Madoff

8 Experts Predict How Web 2.0 Will Evolve In 2009

Analyst: November Mac Sales Off Nearly 40 Percent