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Virginia is dependent on coal mining and export, but it also faces routine flooding from rising sea levels. That irony is a very real, day-to-day problem for residents.

The CD is just the latest musical format to rise and fall in roughly the same 30-year cycle.

Dow Chemical released its fourth quarter earnings report today and it was a good fourth quarter for the chemical giant. Its earnings nearly tripled. From…

A third-quarter earnings report from Chrysler shows that profits are up 80 percent from last year.The automaker earned $381 million over the past quarter,…

The Environmental Protection Agency has just released a report on dioxins that’s more than 25 years in the making. Dioxins are a class of toxic chemicals.…

Felix Gilman's new novel presents a dark alternate vision of the occultism craze that gripped Victorian London. Critic Jason Heller calls the book heady yet accessible "séance fiction."

Consumers appear to be more confident in the economy, and it showed in the salesrooms of American car companies last year. Chrysler saw the biggest…

The Ballad of a Small Player is set in the murky underworld of Macau's casinos. Reviewer Tash Aw calls the novel a masterful and thrilling collision of old Asia and 21st century glamour.

Oil prices have fallen more than $12 a barrel from their peak level after Hurricane Katrina. But with domestic production still feeling the effects of that storm, government forecasters suggest the downward trend may be ending.

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