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Fun family activities that are easy on your walletThe Miami Valley offers a wide variety of wonderful adventures for families, and you may be surprised at how many of them are free. Spend less, get more: Three ways to have a great family holiday
What's bad news for American retailers may actually be good for our children. Ten Top Women: Angela Addington
If there has been a particularly strong mentor in your life, what was it about them that helped you make a difference? Planning key to snagging sweet deals on Black Friday
The popular image of Santa Claus as a jolly old man in a red suit with a hand-written list of toys he will hand out to children from his reindeer-drawn sleigh is not exactly how the gifts get under the tree. Your map to Black Friday's buried treasures
In an economy where everyone is looking to dig out a deal this holiday season, we have your guide to buried treasure this Black Friday. Museum shop offers unique holiday gifts
DAYTON — It's no wonder the Museum Holiday Shop Around just keeps growing. There's no better place to find an unusual mix of gifts while at the same time contributing to some wonderful causes. Holiday gift ideas
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Online retailers see surge on 'Cyber Monday'NEW YORK — Like their counterparts at the malls, online merchants finally got some relief with the unofficial start of the holiday shopping season, spurred by a bevy of deals and free shipping offers. But the stronger-than-expected bump in online sales Monday couldn't cancel out a lackluster November. Online deals for 'Cyber Week'
Many retailers are offering online deals not only for the day they have dubbed "Cyber Monday" — when people return to work after Thanksgiving and shop from their desks — but for the rest of the week or longer. Here is a sampling: Black Friday shoppers out in force, but cautious
NEW YORK — Shoppers, who had snapped their wallets shut since September, turned out in force Friday to grab early morning deals and hard-to-find items like Elmo Live and the "Wii Fit" exercise game, but many said worries about the economy have them focusing on fewer gifts and less expensive, more practical items. Online retailers ramp up deals to capture dollars
NEW YORK — Online retailers are ramping up heavy-duty deals to turn skittish shoppers into buyers during the crucial Thanksgiving weekend and "Cyber Monday" — but even so, online sales are expected to be fairly flat after years of strong growth.
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The phone that feels the flu before you doNEW YORK — Did your parents tell you to remember your scarf when you went out, so you wouldn't catch a cold? Today, the advice might be: Remember your cell phone. Wikipedia hopes to make editing user-friendly
NEW YORK — Concerned that many would-be contributors to Wikipedia are being scared away, the foundation that runs the Internet encyclopedia is getting a $890,000 grant to try to make the editing process more user-friendly. Scientists ask: Is technology rewiring our brains?
NEW YORK — What does a teenage brain on Google look like? Do all those hours spent online rewire the circuitry? Could these kids even relate better to emoticons than to real people?
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