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HP TouchSmart IQ770

An electronic family communication center has long been the dream of the PC industry, and the latest manifestation is the Hewlett-Packard TouchSmart IQ770. This is a very nice all-in-one PC with some specialized applications designed to let family members share information easily. But it's not likely to replace the note stuck to the refrigerator as the family messaging system

Read more : BusinessWeek Technology You: 15.02.2007 11:00:00

Military Faces Growing Ranks of Bereaved

Family-friendly military confronts growing ranks of bereaved spouses and children

Read more : CBS News Health: 04.03.2007 05:31:00

72 Years and About 50 Heirs Later, Home Sale Is Labor of Law

Q: My great-grandmother died in 1935 and left her heirs a plot of land with a house. Since then, family members who needed a place to live have been allowed to stay in the house, on the condition that they paid the real estate taxes and made whatever repairs were needed.

Read more : Washingtonpost Housing Counsel: 17.03.2007 11:00:00

Ben Brewer on His Family's Health Habits

Ben Brewer says he and his family aren't textbook examples of healthy behavior, but they may be examples of reasonable behavior given the factors families face, from time pressures to TV commercials.

Read more : Wall Street Journal The Doctors Office: 26.03.2007 05:06:00

Environmental Guru Energizes Canadians

TORONTO -- The rough ghost town in the Canadian Rocky Mountains that became a prison home for four members of the Suzuki family during World War II did not really seem such a bad place to 6-year-old David.

Read more : Washingtonpost North America: 29.04.2007 11:00:00

Tribune Deal Makes Zell Ace of Tax Dodgers

Whenever you see a deal involving Los Angeles's Chandler family, you usually see a tax dodge. And sure enough, the pending sale of Tribune Co., the big media firm in which the Chandlers are the largest shareholders, exploits a loophole so gaping that we taxpayers can only pray that someone closes it quickly. But it's not the Chandlers, media magnates (L.A. Times, Newsday, the Baltimore Sun), whose shenanigans I've tracked for 15 years, who are dodging taxes here. It's Sam Zell, the Chicago real-estate mogul who's buying control of Tribune.

Read more : Washingtonpost Deals Allan Sloan on Wall Street and Investing: 01.05.2007 11:00:00

Rationing Fuels Discontent In Iran

TEHRAN, June 30 -- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who swept to power promising that every family would benefit from the nation's oil wealth, now faces growing domestic discontent over newly imposed fuel rationing and skyrocketing consumer prices.

Read more : Washingtonpost Oil and Gas Prices: 01.07.2007 11:00:00

A Truck Tough Enough for the Dead Zone

NEW ORLEANS It was an ill-advised journey to a moribund city, the place of my birth and upbringing. Family and friends, all living elsewhere, begged me not to come here. My wife, Mary Anne, feared that I would become depressed. My doctors worried that the city lacked the medical prowess to take care of a patient who had had two kidney transplants. And there were all of the stories of fetid conditions -- water-rotted houses and their unusable contents, piles of trash, abandoned and decrepit streets in my old 9th Ward, Gentilly and East New Orleans neighborhoods.

Read more : Washingtonpost On Wheels: 15.07.2007 11:00:00

Searching For Jacob

Jacob fled his village in Darfur to escape mass murder, leaving his family and schoolbooks behind. 60 Minutes' Scott Pelley puts a face on the horrible genocide in Sudan when he tracks down Jacob to return his books.

Read more : CBS News 60 Minutes: 13.08.2007 10:31:00

Putting Down Roots in Prince Frederick

Prince Frederick is still a place of farmlands and quiet Chesapeake Bay shoreline, even as it develops steadily into a Washington suburb. The Plater family, which has been in Prince Frederick for generations, is adjusting, too. But the Platers are not about to change completely.

Read more : Washingtonpost DC Living: 25.08.2007 11:00:00

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