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...daytime-Emmy-nominated Celebrity Homes (daily, 7 p.m. E.T.), host Suzanne Sena guides us from Hugh Hefner's grotto at the Playboy Mansion to Ed McMahon's baby pictures in his kitchen to professional former star Danny Bonaduce's guitar collection in his rec room. HGTV has a raft of celeb-home specials and semiregular series like TV Moms at Home, where Estelle Harris (Seinfeld's Estelle Costanza), wearing about 10 lbs. of jewelry, reclines on the fainting couch in her cavernous living room: "It's the size of Lithu...
...Another raft of economic data Tuesday, another snapshot of where the U.S. economy may be heading - and maybe some conflicting signals. Consumer prices rose 0.1 percent in March, with inflation cooling further after February's 0.3 percent jump. The ice cube, again, was energy prices, which can be taken as a sign that either the slowdown is cooling off demand or low gas prices will fuel the consumer comeback this summer. Maybe both...
...knows: his oil-field buddies (mirrors of himself), corporate executives and captains of industry, from the Halliburton honcho to the Terminix franchisee. Some of them contributed mightily to his campaign; all are "dynamic entrepreneurs," as he likes to say, who have made America great--despite laboring under a raft of pesky government regulations. They have his gratitude...
...Blown's Mayday message began gathering, the Chinese government warned colonial Hong Kong's British administration that no military aircraft were to approach the accident scene. The message was acknowledged but ignored. That afternoon a U.S. Navy Albatross amphibian from Clark Field in the Philippines landed beside the raft and flew the survivors to Hong Kong...
...manufacturers' lives even more miserable than normal. As Japan tries to export its way out of deflation, bank insolvency and crushing consumer gloom without setting off the competitive-devaluation dominoes in Asia, Wall Street - apparently more than Greenspan - fears the U.S. is in no shape to play life raft this time around...