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DETROIT — A dire new forecast for global vehicle sales battered the shares of auto companies on Thursday, particularly General Motors, whose stock plunged more than 31 percent and was the hardest hit of the 30 companies in the ... [full story]

The eternal promise of gadgetland — that devices will keep getting cheaper and better — continues to play out among low-end printers. Hewlett-Packard’s newest printer for families, students and the home office, ... [full story]

NOT until they began visiting open houses did Nicolle and Jeff Pillartz realize they had entirely different visions for their new home. Skip to next paragraph Tina Fineberg for The New York Times The building at 35 ... [full story]

NEW WAVERLY, Tex. — Bridget Sloan, a bubbly, blue-eyed 16-year-old from Indiana, knew what was at stake this week when she walked into selection camp for the United States Olympic women’s gymnastics team: the final spot on the squad headed ... [full story]

Here is the way the sports agent Evan Morgenstein tried to finagle an exclusive for one of his most important clients, the 18-year-old gymnast Nastasia Liukin: He was absolutely, positively not interested in a story that might compare her commercial ... [full story]

JOHN F. STREET, the mayor of Philadelphia, perhaps put it best at the announcement of a new corporate headquarters for the Comcast Corporation early this year: "As Microsoft is to Seattle and Coca-Cola is to Atlanta, Comcast ... [full story]

EACH weekday morning, Pat Brosnan heads for work at a Westchester County bond insurance company, where she gives financial advice to investment bankers and other money managers. A mother of five with a master’s degree in corporate finance, she tries ... [full story]

With its airy dining room, round tables and sleek wood chairs that look like something from a SoHo showroom, the new St. John’s Bread and Life center in Bedford-Stuyvesant bears very little resemblance to the traditional soup kitchen. Skip ... [full story]

IF you're the type of shopper who spends billions of dollars on lethal military gadgets, and you're ever invited to visit General Atomics Aeronautical Systems - the small, privately held San Diego company that has quickly become one of the ... [full story]

HYPERMILING: Steve Chafe’s interest in hypermiling started with a 0 speeding ticket. Determined to avoid another one, he became a different man behind the wheel — one who didn’t mind getting to his destination a few minutes later. Until then, ... [full story]