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With a larger television contract a strong possibility, the idea of increasing the number of teams to 96 in the tournament has gained momentum.

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Why Would N.C.A.A. Expand Tournament? It’s About the Money

Attacks on the media along the border with the U.S. have resulted in what amounts to a news blackout.

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Fearing Drug Cartels, Reporters in Mexico Retreat

Commercial trade schools are under fire because they are attracting more students and Pell grants.

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The New Poor: For-Profit Schools Cashing In on Recession and Federal Aid

One real estate broker has this advice for prospective homebuyers: “Predicting interest rates is a whole lot easier than predicting home prices.”

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Everybody’s Business: Shopping the Mortgage Rate Before the Home Price

Steve Jobs of Apple and Eric Schmidt of Google, once friends and allies, are now engaged in a gritty fight over the future of mobile computing and cellphones.

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Apple’s Spat With Google Is Getting Personal

Efforts have begun to make Illinois in general and Chicago in particular a powerhouse of biotechnology companies like areas on both coasts.

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Chicago News Cooperative: Support Network Seeks to Grow Biotech Companies

When a Flip video camera won’t connect with a Mac laptop, a new father inadvertently embarks on a customer-service adventure.

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The Haggler: Capturing the Moments of Customer Frustration

Re: “Mom, Apple Pie and Mortgages,” in which Robert J. Shiller said the nation might look at new methods of housing finance

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Letters: Homeownership’s Future

Like it or not, more cost control looks likely to flourish in any health plan, Tyler Cowen says.

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Economic View: Managed Care: Get Used to It

Music in the cloud, an Internet music service that everyone anticipates but which has not yet caught on, would cause problems for the music industry itself.

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Ping: Labels Balk at Services to Stream Music to Various Devices