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Meg's an excessive spending expert

Whitman says pols need to reel it in, but when it comes to her own campaign, well that's a different story.

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Italy moves to the beat

From Venice south through the boot Italy is celebrating Carnival in a variety of parades and masked outings.

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Writing on the front lines

Paul Linde's book, "Danger to Self: On the Front Line With an ER Psychiatrist," is an attempt to make sense of a world that few people see, or want to.

Super view from the couch

Scott Ostler on the game, the Who (or was that the Budweiser frogs?), his prediction (he was right) and the Big Easy.

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Dow closes below 10K

Concern about mounting debt in Europe has pushed the index below the psychological barrier for the first time in three months.

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Gov't shut down after snow storm

Fed workers and school children get a day off as the Mid-Atlantic digs out from as much as 3 feet of snow.

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Summer of Love

How an unlikely Haight-Ashbury fling between a long-haired hippie and the police chief's daughter grew into 41 years together.

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A slime romance

Break out of the Valentine's Day rut with a guided Big Basin hike that explores the mating rituals of banana slugs, newts, ladybugs and the redwoods themselves.

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