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Oak trees and sparkling waterfalls have replaced the shards and smoke and bodies. Ten years after the attacks that changed American life, the World Trade Center site is a memorial, and the need to mourn is being eclipsed by the need to honor the memories of the nearly 3,000 people killed.
Children of those lost, some […]

As parents pack up their kids to go off to university or college, some may wonder with borrowing costs near historic lows, if it makes more sense to buy rather than rent. For example, over four years, a bachelor apartment near the University of Toronto will cost about $36,000.

Staying in residence is also expensive […]

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Beijing on Friday confirmed a decision that prevents the Democratic Republic of Congo from being sued in Hong Kong courts in a case that raised issues about the Chinese territory’s autonomy.
The Standing Committee of China’s rubberstamp legislature, the National People’s Congress, says Hong Kong, like mainland China, is covered by absolute immunity _ meaning governments […]

World stocks sank Thursday after an uneven day on Wall Street added to pessimism about the global economic outlook and Japan announced that exports had fallen for the fifth straight month in July.
Oil prices slipped below $87 a barrel while the dollar was higher against the euro and the yen.
European shares opened lower after an […]

As students troop off to college this fall, parents with children of all ages have their heads spinning from a volatile investment year of troubling world and national events.
That makes it the perfect time for them to get their heads on straight. Early, regular investment in their children’s future, made just like a car or […]

Clayton-based Spellman Brady & Co. provided the furniture and signs for the recent renovation of Anheuser-Busch Hall at Fontbonne University.
The three-story, 44,000 square-foot building houses three departments

Bargain hunters helped push the Dow back above 11,000 Tuesday.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 196 points, or 1.8 percent, to 11,005 in midday trading. On Monday, the Dow had its worst day since 2008, plunging 634.76 points as fear coursed through global markets.
“We’ve got no information that makes us feel any better or worse” […]

The real danger from the downgrade of U.S. government debt by Standard & Poor’s isn’t higher interest rates. It’s the hit to the nation’s fragile economic psyche and rattled financial markets.
S&P’s decision to strip the U.S. of its sterling AAA credit rating for the first time and move it down one notch, to AA+, deals […]

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