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  • Consumer Reports is out with its 2007 Best and Worst automotive issue. Sean Cole went to do some further research by going for a ride at the test drive center.

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  • They don't give out pain relievers when you invest in the stock market. So how do you ensure that sudden changes won't make your portfolio sick? Marketplace's Steve Tripoli reports.

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  • Hollywood's box office has returned to health despite all the doomsday predictions of two years ago. And Daily Variety's Mike Speier says we ain't seen nothin' yet — 2007 promises to be a huge year.

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  • Controversy surrounding Diebold has left its e-voting machines under a cloud of suspicion, but the company is doing quite nicely. Electronic voting is just a small sideline business for Diebold — and one it stumbled onto at that.

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  • France's Louvre museum has licensed out its name and some of its contents to the United Arab Emirates. Many French museum curators and art historians are calling the deal a sellout. John Laurenson reports.

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  • Everybody wants to do business in China, the world's biggest market. Americans included. Commentator James Mann suggests we're not thinking about it the right way.

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  • Wikipedia, the online group-edited encyclopedia, is getting into the search-engine buisness. Its search will use the same collective process, but for profit. Pat Loeb reports.

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  • American sugar producers aren't too sweet on this year's farm bill, which contains proposed subsidies being pushed by the candy industry. Stuart Cohen reports.

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  • Media giant Time Warner has agreed to a $144 million settlement in one of the last investor lawsuits stemming from its merger with AOL six years ago.

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  • Beijing's announcement that it's increasing military spending got some attention in Washington. Commentator Robert Reich explains that's just what the Chinese wanted.

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