Brakes a show-stopper for Harley fans
Perry Sands has long outgrown the days when he cruised the neighborhood on a Schwinn bicycle, souped up with his dad's lawn-mower engine. He's the country's largest manufacturer of after-market...
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BOTTOM LINE: MUSIC IS A BUSINESS
Stop the presses: The war's over. And anyone surprised by the outcome probably thinks Ralph Nader is going to be elected president Tuesday. In a landslide. The rest of us...
WHY FIXED-RATE MORTGAGE PAYMENTS GO UP
Q--I built a home in 1993 with a 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage at 7.5 percent. My mortgage has been sold to other lenders at least three times, and my monthly payments...
BMW SET TO MARKET MINI TO THE MAX
If Volkswagen AG can have a hit with its New Beetle, competing German automaker BMW AG figures it could do the same with the Mini. The tiny British-made car with...
FULL OF ADVICE ON THEIR DIETS
Most consumers consider their existing diet to be healthful and had made all the "major" changes they planned to make, according to a report presented at a recent Selling Food...
WOMEN SAVE AS MUCH AS MEN BUT ACCUMULATE LESS
With their retirement clocks ticking, women like Sharon Carr, 61, are stepping up their retirement savings, a recent survey shows. "I'm terrified I won't ever be able to retire if...
EVEN FANS OF COUPLAND SHOULD MISS `WYOMING’
MISS WYOMING By Douglas Coupland Pantheon, 311 pages, $23 `Miss Wyoming" is a comedy of the unfunny and a romance of the unlovable. If it weren't for Douglas Coupland's whirligigs...
A DREAM JOB
Griping is an American office tradition, but even the whiniest workers don't seem to spout off much about their 401(k) plans. With the stock market on a tear for most...
SO MANY QUESTIONS, SO FEW ANSWERS IN `FLU’
FLU: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It By Gina Kolata Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 330 pages, $25 Why...
TIGHTEN UP
Deteriorated caulk around a bathtub, sink or shower is not just unsightly. If the caulk develops leaks so that water gets into the walls behind the fixture or onto the...