All Stories from December 15, 2012 (Change date)
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Senate legislation targets cyberstalking softwareDec 15, 2012 6:29 am - WASHINGTON — For around $50, a jealous wife or husband can download software that can continuously track the whereabouts of a spouse better than any private detective. I...
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Energy experts say drilling can be made cleanerDec 15, 2012 6:26 am - PITTSBURGH — In the Colorado mountains, a spike in air pollution has been linked to a boom in oil and gas drilling. About 800 miles away on the plains of north Texas, th...
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South Korea’s porn fight ‘like shoveling in a blizzard’Dec 15, 2012 6:15 am - SEOUL, South Korea — Moon Tae-Hwa stares at his computer, dizzy and nauseous from the hours of porn he’s viewed online while his wife and children slept. He feels no sha...
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Bad Apple Maps directions lead to desert in AustraliaDec 15, 2012 6:13 am - SYDNEY — The city of Mildura is not at the end of a dirt road in the Australian bush, in tire-choking desert sand far from food and water. Unfortunately, Apple’s much-ma...
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Amazon starts selling Kindle E-books in China, joining BrazilDec 15, 2012 6:09 am - Amazon.com Inc., the world’s largest e-commerce company, has started selling E-books through its China site, a week after the company announced it was doing the same in ...
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Twitter adds photo tools to mobile app in challenge to InstagramDec 15, 2012 6:03 am - SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter unveiled tools to adjust the color, size and style of photos uploaded via applications for Apple iPhones and Android phones, as the social-media ...
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Facebook has revolutionized gift-giving on the webDec 15, 2012 6:00 am - PALO ALTO, Calif. — The Web is terrible at offering gift advice. Consider this scenario: It's your sister-in-law's birthday in a couple of days. She's one of those super...
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Bair writes bio of artist Saul SteinbergDec 15, 2012 5:00 am - When New Yorker cartoonist Saul Steinberg was honored in 1974 by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the architect Philip Johnson puzzled out loud over how best to...
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Smaller inventory of homes is big factor in improved marketDec 15, 2012 4:41 am - Jim Regan has been selling homes in the Arlington Heights, Mount Prospect, Des Plaines area for 40 years, originally as the owner for National Sunrise Realty in Arlingto...
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Many ways to structure fees when refinancing loanDec 15, 2012 4:30 am - Q. In your column a reader said they were refinancing with no fees. Do you know what company is offering that deal? I owe about $31,000 and am at 7.125 percent with 13 y...