Enchanted Village opens Saturday at Jordan's Furniture in Avon

The iconic animated Enchanted Village kicks off its 2012 season at Jordan's Furniture in Avon this Saturday and is free to the public. The old-fashioned, Victorian-era 8,000-square-foot display went from Jordan Marsh to its new home of Jordan's Furniture...

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Warren Buffett's firm will close suburban DC newspaper

OMAHA, Neb. — Warren Buffett's company is planning to close a small Virginia newspaper that it bought from Media General earlier this year. The 10,000-circulation Manassas (Va.) News & Messenger, which began publishing in 1869, has been struggling...

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Liberal group outlines substantial Medicare cuts

WASHINGTON — Trying to prevent a raid on health care programs in upcoming budget talks, a think tank close to the White House on Wednesday released a plan for significant savings, mostly from Medicare. Medicaid and the new health care law are largely...

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HBS survey shows concerns about U.S. competitiveness

A new Harvard Business School survey has revealed serious concern about America's competitiveness trajectory, yet shows wide agreement between liberals and conservatives on the policy imperatives that Congress and President Obama should advance following...

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In latest intrusion, Facebook creates relationship profile

The nicest thing you can do for your spouse or significant other right now is to dump them. On Facebook. The latest sputtering strategy from the post-IPO social network is to treat couples like people. Now not only do users have a profile page, so does...

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FDA chief seeks new powers to police pharmacies

WASHINGTON — The country's top medical regulator is preparing to tell Congress that new laws are needed to police large specialty pharmacies like the one at the center of a deadly meningitis outbreak. Testimony released ahead of the first congressional...

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Stocks slide after gloomy report on retail sales

NEW YORK — Stocks indexes are lower in light trading on Wall Street at midday. Strong earnings from Abercrombie & Fitch are being offset by a gloomy report on retail spending from the government. The Dow Jones industrial average was down 55 points...

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Facebook jumps on biggest lock-up expiration day

NEW YORK — Facebook's stock is up more than 7 percent despite expectations that it would fall because more than 850 million additional shares in the company are being freed up for sale. Shares of Facebook Inc. are up $1.48, or 7.5 percent, at $21.34....

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Questions about Elmo young fans won't be asking

NEW YORK — First, Big Bird became an unwitting player in a presidential debate that argued for clipping his wings. Then came word that the actor who plays Elmo would take a leave of absence amid an allegation that he had had a sexual relationship...

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Reynolds subsidiary funding cigarette recycling

RICHMOND, Va. — A subsidiary of the nation's second-largest cigarette maker Reynolds American Inc. is funding a national recycling program to reward do-gooders for cleaning up tobacco waste and turn cigarette butts into pellets used to make items such...

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