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General Motors auto workers prepare rows of the new Chevrolet Camaro for delivery, at the company's Oshawa Ontario facility April 8, 2009.

How Bad Are Auto Sales? Ten Questions and Answers

The auto industry's new sales numbers are awful. So what does this mean for Obama's rescue package, cash-for clunkers, and foreign automakers? Here are the answers

Blogs

Nerd World

Hot Mile High Trivia Action

Forget Call of Duty 5: World at War. I've discovered an online multiplayer game that's more thrilling than Halo 3 and GTA: IV put together. Delta Coach In-seat Trivia.

The Curious Capitalist

Job Losses: Great Recession vs. Great Depression

Okay, now I remember why I don't do this every month. This chart took me a while.

The Cheapskate Blog

Big and Little League Baseball Hit by Recession

No one can really feel bad for major league sports owners, or the amazing but overpaid athletes they employ. But when hard times hit America's pastime at the Little League level, that's a different situation.

Micro Blogging

How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live

Once just a fad, Twitter is developing into a powerful form of communication. What its growth says about us -- and the future of American innovation

Money & Main St.

Home Sales Perk Up, but Expensive Houses Languish

Home sales are improving lately, but it's the small starter homes that sell, while big expensive houses go unloved

Video

Family Tech: The Sims 3

Tech Reporter Josh Quittner discovers how easy it is to create — and creatively torture! — a realistic character in the new version of the Sims video game

Thinking Big

No Souvenirs

Using RFID, one firm makes sure that sponges don't go home with surgical patients

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SUSILO BAMBANG YUDHOYONO, Indonesian President, at a Jakarta rally as he seeks re-election in the July 8 presidential vote