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The debate about global warming is over. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a landmark report in 2007 that, with a very high degree of confidence, attributed most of the global temperature rise observed since the mid–20th century to humanity’s emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and other greenhouse gases. The panel received the Nobel Peace Prize this year for its efforts.

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For a number of years, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has been issuing refunds electronically, directly into citizens’ bank accounts.* Taxpayers like this method because it is fast and secure. Now, thanks to the growing popularity of the agency’s Free File service, more taxpayers are filing their returns electronically. As the name of the program suggests, the price is right.

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Almost half of all prescriptions in the United States are filled by generic drugs, yet they continue to be viewed with suspicion. Generic drugs cost as much as 80 percent less than their brand-name equivalents, creating the assumption their quality and effectiveness have in some way been compromised. And quite naturally, many people resist using them simply because their HMOs and insurance companies prefer they do.

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For most of us, search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Ask provide a vital point of access to the Internet, responding to our simple request with a list of Web sites most likely to have the information we need. On the whole, search engines do a remarkable job of selecting the most appropriate sites from among the billions on the Internet, but every searcher occasionally hits a virtual dead end.