Pats help NFL score with Brits

The National Football League continues its lucrative drive to win over United Kingdom fans tomorrow when the New England Patriots [team stats] take on the St. Louis Rams before a sellout 80,000-plus crowd. The goal is to build the fan base to a scale...

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Holy pop! Obama's campaign snazzes up its slogan

NASHUA, N.H. — President Barack Obama's campaign slogan is getting a boost! Obama's campaign added an exclamation point to placards and banners bearing the campaign's motto. Instead of a stoic period at the end of the single-word slogan, the signs...

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Maxima should recover fine from accidental use of diesel

I have a 2009 3.5-liter Nissan Maxima with 39,000 miles. Recently I filled the car with 16 gallons of premium fuel, drove about 50 miles and returned home. Later that day my car wouldn't run. We discovered that the fuel tank at the gas station had been...

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The Ticker

Johnson ditches A123 Auto parts maker Johnson Controls is stepping away from its position as the debtor-in-possession lender during the bankruptcy process for battery maker A123 Systems in order to prevent delays. The company is avoiding a premature...

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Shelburne Falls nurse practitioner helps promote homeopathy in Haiti

SHELBURNE FALLS — The first time nurse practitioner/homeopath Lauren Fox of West County Physicians went to Haiti was six months after the catastrophic earthquake hit Port-Au-Prince, a city of about 6 million people. "People were in emotional and mental...

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Insurers nervous over prospect of Mitt Romney victory

WASHINGTON — You'd think health insurance CEOs would be chilling the bubbly with Republican Mitt Romney's improved election prospects, but instead they're in a quandary. Although the industry hates parts of President Barack Obama's health care law,...

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An uneasy economy, and those living through it

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Here was Chas Kaufmann's life before the Great Recession: $28,000 in restaurant tabs in a year, cruises, house parties with fireworks. His Mr. Gutter business was booming in the Pennsylvania Poconos. Now: "We mainly shop at Sam's...

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Beware of app-aritions this Halloween!

Trick-or-treating has gone digital. No more going door-to-door without a plan. These days, you've got to maximize your treat-collection efficiency by plotting a route with a mobile app. For 99 cents, the Trick or Treating app, available at the iTunes...

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Obama's head of the class

The sluggish economic recovery has the Hub's collegiate upperclassmen wracked with worry over their job prospects come graduation day, yet many say President Obama remains the right leader to fix the nation's ills. "Obama has already pushed down the...

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Mortgage deduction stakes to get higher next year

WASHINGTON -— Limiting the homeowner mortgage interest deduction came up in two of the presidential debates, but specifics about who would be affected and how much they might lose in tax benefits were minimal. To put some rough numbers on the issue,...

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