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• Budget deficit in 2008 surges to all-time high
... the prospects of paying for the $700 billion rescue plan that will boost spending as the government spends $250 billion in coming months to buy stock from banks to bolster their balance sheets and also buys up bad assets currently on banks' books.
• Analog's twilight: Digital trumps physical
Bound books? Google is digitizing more than 3,000 a day. And between 2001 and 2006, sales of blank cassettes dropped by more than 60 percent as flash memory sales spiked, according to the Consumer Electronics Association, which predicts "a slow ...
• Wall Street ends seesaw session lower
The revised bailout plan differs from the original in that it aims to recapitalize banks, not just buy the troubled assets off their books at prices that could leave the banks with losses. “This begins to penetrate the core of the problem,” said ...
• Brandon Lang on Gambling
I wouldn't be surprised if the final margin ends up right where the books have this game, at -1 for either team, and I also wouldn't be surprised if the total flirts past the 40-point mark. But somehow the final tally will find itself under the ...
• Dewey’ chronicles life of author, cat and town
Dewey Readmore Books became the library's star boarder and an international celebrity. Now he's the subject of a best seller that chronicles the struggles of the library worker who found the trembling kitten, the town that embraced him and Dewey ...