The number of apps that collect detailed personal data might surprise you. That includes some …
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BAGHDAD – A quiet middle-class Shiite neighborhood in western Baghdad was transformed recently into a …
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Things got chippy both on and off the field at Thursday night’s San Francisco 49ers …
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NEW YORK – AOL (search) said on Thursday it bought Circuit City Stores Inc.’s (CC) digital music subscription service MusicNow LLC, a move that thrusts Time Warner Inc.’s (TWX) Internet unit into competition with RealNetworks, Yahoo, Napster and other subscription services. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but …
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Named after the slang term for a U.S. Marine, “Jarhead,” (search) which opens this weekend, goes behind the lines to give audiences a glimpse of life in the armed forces overseas. The film, based on Anthony Swofford’s (search) 2003 Desert Storm memoir, chronicles a squad shipped out to the Persian …
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NEW YORK – E.L. Doctorow’s “The March,” his novelization of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman’s bloody Civil War campaign, and Joan Didion’s “The Year of Magical Thinking,” her memoir of grief for her late husband, were among the finalists for Wednesday night’s National Book Awards. Two of the country’s most revered …
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