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Best cars of the year 2007

We may look back on 2007 as the year public opinion shifted toward greener cars and trucks, a result of heightened concern about climate change and oil imports, coupled with high gas prices and a shift away from truckish S.U.V.’s. Interestingly, though, this wasn’t a year when a lot of notable green cars came to […]

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Mathemeticians Figure Out What Makes Women Beautiful

After studying the movements of women for years, finally we get scientific confirmation of what we’re seeing: Researchers at Cambridge University in the U.K. have figured out exactly what makes a perfect swivel-hipped walk with “a more angular swaying and bounce to the hips.” The mathematicians got out their slide rules, calculators, blow-up dolls and […]

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hi tech

iPhone Sales Top 500,000 In Weekend Rush

iDay has passed and with a weekend of frantic iPhone selling under the belt, has the iPhone managed to live up to the hype?

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Running Old Programs on a Vista PC

Most older software will run on Vista, but plenty won’t. Fortunately, Vista includes a system called “Compatibility Mode” that gives older programs a fighting chance to run on the new OS.

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Makeup For Men?

Don’t be surprised if very soon your toiletry kit contains not only shaving cream, deodorant and toothpaste, but concealer, oil-absorbing face powder and brow gel. That’s because guys are relying on an increasing number of made-for-men products like these to put their best face forward.

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Rent or Own? The New Cable-TV Dilemma

Soon, Subscribers Will Have Option to Buy Set-Top Boxes; Pros and Cons of Cablecards A generation ago, federal regulators opened the way for consumers to buy telephones rather than rent them from the phone company. Now, the government has its sights on the television set-top boxes that consumers rent from cable or satellite companies.

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autos

2007 Ford Shelby GT500

The Ford Shelby GT500 is the result of Carroll Shelby and the Ford Special Vehicle Team joining forces to produce a successor to the Shelby GT500 of the late 1960s.