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...seemed threatened by AT&T's growing cable empire and deals with At Home and Microsoft. The set-top box is supposed to hold special appeal for the half of U.S. households that don't have a computer, a market that AOL must tap in order to maintain its torrid growth (now past 17 million subscribers...
...availability of home loans for working stiffs. The breakpoint is high enough--$240,000 this year--that the higher interest rates on loans of that size afflict only one in five buyers nationwide. And so what? They can afford it, right? Don't be so sure. In today's torrid housing market, prices in some regions are escalating far faster than personal income, shoving more home buyers into jumboland without a paycheck to match. In Louisville, Dallas and Phoenix, prices are going up 7% to 10% a year. In Charleston, S.C., home prices rose 16% last year. In San Francisco...
What's up in the mail room? The mail, for one thing: our letter writers are setting a torrid pace so far this year. The first-quarter total was an eye-glazing 18,806 letters, e-mails and faxes (and yes, we read every blessed one of them, and some of them twice). For you real numbers junkies, that's 8% more than what we bagged this time last year...
Apparently torrid shooting from Clemente--who scored 23 points on 8-of-13 shooting--and 11 assists with only one turnover from senior point guard Tim Hill aren't enough for a Crimson victory...
PHILADELPHIA--Mikael Renberg and Valeri Zelepukin scored 28 seconds apart in the third period as the Philadelphia Flyers beat the Montreal Canadiens 5-2 yesterday and continued their torrid...