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• When a Roommate Is a Necessity - Adelle Waldman takes a look at how to cope with sharing your space.

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• Amazon.com Plans Audio Book Download Store (AP) - AP - On its Web site, Amazon.com Inc. is asking publishers for audiobooks for a new download store it says it plans to open. But the Internet retailer is being coy about such key details as a launch date.

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• Film review: Funny Ha Ha (Reuters) - Reuters - "Funny Ha Ha," a debut indie comedy-drama from Andrew Bujalski has been likened to the works of John Cassavetes, but the comparison is a stretch.

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• Smithfield 4Q Earnings Drop 30 Percent (AP) - AP - Smithfield Foods Inc., the world's top hog producer and pork processor, said Friday its fourth-quarter earnings declined 30 percent from the year-ago period, which included a gain on the sale of Schneider Corp. and profit from discontinued operations.

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• MSN Site Hacking Went Undetected for Days (AP) - AP - Password-stealing software planted by hackers was active on Microsoft's popular MSN Web site in South Korea for days before the world's largest software company learned about the break-in and removed the computer code.

» Real Estate Journal News

• Buying and Selling A Teardown Property - Why razing a dilapidated home and selling its lot at a profit is more difficult than it appears.

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• MSN Site Hacking Went Undetected for Days (AP) - AP - Password-stealing software planted by hackers was active on Microsoft's popular MSN Web site in South Korea for days before the world's largest software company learned about the break-in and removed the computer code.

» Real Estate Industry News

• California land slides, not property values - Real estate prices in immediate area affected, but not entire town

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• Weak job growth raises slowdown fears (Reuters) - Reuters - U.S. employers added only 78,000 workers to their payrolls in May, the weakest job growth in 21 months, the government said on Friday in a report that fanned worries on Wall Street over a slowing economy.

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» Stock Markets

• US stocks drop on jobs, oil over $55 (Reuters) - Reuters - U.S. stocks slid on Friday as investors worried about a faltering economy after a government report showed May payrolls grew at the weakest pace in 21 months and crude oil prices topped $55 a barrel.

» U.S. Economy

• Payroll Growth Smallest in Nearly 2 Years (AP) - AP - Job growth slowed nearly to a crawl in May, with new hiring registering the smallest gain in almost two years. The unemployment rate dipped to a low 5.1 percent, however.

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• Employers Add 78,000 Jobs -

» Personal Finance

• Rates on 30-Year Mortgages Fall (AP) - AP - Rates on 30-year mortgages fell this week for the eighth time in the past nine weeks, hitting the lowest level in four months, according to an industry report.

» Enterprise Software

• Apple to use Intel chips in '06-CNET (Reuters) - Reuters - Apple Computer Inc. plans to announce on Monday that it will switch to using Intel Corp's microprocessors and phase out its current chip supplier, International Business Machines Corp., CNET News.com reported late on Friday.

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• More faux materials pop up in new-home construction - Many homeowners like it this way

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