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• Syria Restriction Narrows Broadband Internet (Reuters) - Reuters - It's not the Internet it's the "Enter-not," laments a Syrian student, frustrated by his government's tight control over access to the Worldwide Web.

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• Billboard Single Reviews (Reuters) - Reuters - After years of underwhelming singles, Mariah Carey finally returns with a certifiably hot track. "It's Like That" is a sparse, bass-heavy, beat-driven cut that is primed for radio and dancefloors. For too long now, Carey's vocals have shifted between breathy near-mumbles ("Boy (I Need You)") and overwrought multilayered wails ("Through the Rain"). With "It's Like That," she goes back to basics. With a mostly straight-ahead delivery, Carey reminds us why we fell for her pipes in the first place. Granted, the selling point of the track here is the beat and its "let's party" message. Still, we'll take it. The single ends on just the right note: a roof-raising call-and-response chant ("Let's go now, what?!"). Carey's eighth studio album, "The Emancipation of Mimi," is due April 12.

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• McDonald's 4Q Earnings Miss Expectations (AP) - AP - Strong U.S. sales helped McDonald's Corp. more than triple its fourth-quarter profits to $398 million, capping the fast-food chain's best single-year sales improvement under the Golden Arches since 1987.

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• Iraqis Begin Historic Vote Amid Attacks (AP) - AP - Iraqis voted Sunday in their country's first free election in a half-century and insurgents made good on threats of violence, launching a deadly suicide bombing and mortar strikes at several polling stations across Iraq. Just hours after polls opened, at least seven people were dead, including two policemen.

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• Can an S-Corp Help Avoid Certain Taxes? - The owner of a fourplex is ready to sell -- and wants to protect his capital gains from the tax man. While he believes incorporating his business is the right decision, our columnist helps him weigh the options.

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• Activists Urge Free Open-Source Software (AP) - AP - Activists at a leftist gathering where Microsoft is viewed as a corporate bogeyman urged developing nations Saturday to leap into the information age with free open-source software.

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• Fed poised to hike key funds rate - Payroll report arrives next week

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• OPEC: No Change in Oil Output Limits (Reuters) - Reuters - OPEC oil producers on Saturday recommended no change in cartel output quotas but said they were ready to intervene should prices look like tumbling after the northern winter.

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• Real Estate Tip - Agents need to stop focusing on the deal they almost got and focus on all the business that is out there. If one wants to look at waste, the customers they never contacted in anyway represent the losses, not the...

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• Stocks End Lower as Merck, Iraq Hurt (Reuters) - Reuters - U.S. stocks ended lower on Friday, dragged down by a sharp fall in drugmaker Merck & Co. Inc. on concerns about a key drug, worries ahead of the Iraq election and weaker-than-expected economic growth.

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• 2004 U.S. Economic Growth Best in 5 Years (AP) - AP - The economy finished 2004 with its best performance in five years despite slowing in the final stretch. The outlook ahead: a moderate jog, rather than a sprint. The broadest barometer of the country's economic standing, the gross domestic product, clocked a 4.4 percent increase for all of last year spurred by brisk consumer and business spending, the Commerce Department reported Friday.

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• Microsoft Dividend Boosts Personal Income (Reuters) - Reuters - The $32 billion special dividend Microsoft Corp. paid to shareholders last month boosted U.S. personal income in the fourth quarter, but had no effect on gross domestic product data released on Friday, the Commerce Department said.

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• National Security Panel Will Evaluate IBM Deal (washingtonpost.com) - washingtonpost.com - The pending sale of International Business Machines Corp.'s personal-computer business to a Chinese company will be investigated by the Bush administration to determine whether the deal threatens national security, according to administration and congressional sources.

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• Fed poised to hike key funds rate - Payroll report arrives next week