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• Do Your Homework To Find a Career Path - Here's a helpful guide for starting your career research, for students who know what they want to do and just need to find a company, as well as those who are feeling more than a little clueless.

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• SK Telecom, EarthLink in $400 Mln Mobile Deal -- NYT (Reuters) - Reuters - EarthLink Inc., the No. 4 U.S. Internet service provider, plans to announce a $400 million joint venture with South Korea's SK Telecom Co. to offer mobile services in the United States, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.

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• Film Review: Lonesome Jim (Reuters) - Reuters - The land of Goshen, namely the barren burg in Indiana, is the grim setting for this tale of despair and renewal. In these biblical terms, it's the story of the prodigal son as Jim, an apathetic 27-year-old, trudges home to dwell with his parents.

» Company Earnings

• Kraft Net Drops 28 Percent on Higher Costs (AP) - AP - Kraft Foods Inc., the largest U.S. food manufacturer, posted a 28 percent decline in fourth-quarter net earnings Tuesday on higher commodity costs and increased marketing spending.

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• Actress Stockard Channing Charged With DUI (AP) - AP - Emmy-winning actress Stockard Channing was arrested for investigation of drunken driving after she tried to drive around a roadblock on the Hollywood Freeway, authorities said Tuesday.

» Real Estate Journal News

• Active-Adult Builders Target Urban Locales - Developers are wooing empty-nesters who want to be where the action is. Just don't call it a retirement community.

» Yahoo Technology

• Microsoft Plans Restrictions on Fixes (AP) - AP - Microsoft Corp. plans to severely curtail the ways in which people running pirated copies of its dominant Windows operating system can receive software updates, including security fixes.

» Real Estate Industry News

• 'Eco-terrorists' target luxury homes - Group admits to vandalizing master-planned community

» Yahoo Business News

• Oil Prices Edge Lower in Thin Early Trade (Reuters) - Reuters - Oil prices edged lower in thin early trade on Wednesday, keeping within sight of $50 a barrel on supply worries in the United States, where weekly data is expected to show a draw in distillate inventories.

» Active Business Networking

• Most Entrepreneurs Tap Friends, Family, Not Venture Funding - If you need money to start a business, do what you did as a kid. Start with family, friends and neighbors. Unless you're really hot stuff, forget about seeing a venture capital firm. So says a new study by Babson...

» Stock Markets

• Stocks Break 4-Day Losing Streak (Reuters) - Reuters - U.S. stocks broke a four-day losing streak on Tuesday, pushing the Dow to its biggest percentage gain in about a month, as earnings from blue-chip companies Johnson & Johnson and DuPont Co. , coupled with positive consumer confidence data, brought investors back into the market.

» U.S. Economy

• U.S. Existing-Home Sales Fall in December (Reuters) - Reuters - Sales of existing homes in the United States fell by 3.3 percent in December from a record high in November, a trade association report showed on Tuesday.

» WallStreet Journal Business News

• Stock Market Fights Back -

» Personal Finance

• Home Sales Climb to All-Time High in 2004 (AP) - AP - Sales of previously owned homes rose 9.4 percent to an all-time high of 6.68 million units last year while the median price of those homes rose at the fastest clip in 24 years, a real estate trade group said Tuesday.

» Enterprise Software

• US scrutiny of IBM's China deal underscores technology transfer concerns (AFP) - AFP - A US government decision to probe IBM's planned sale of its PC business to a top Chinese electronics firm reflects American concerns over China's increasing acquisition of civilian technologies that could add to its military and economic might, some analysts say.

» Real Estate for Home Buyers and Sellers

• Interest-only real estate loan good for short-term ownership - Borrowers with fixed-rate version avoid payment shock