By LAURIE J. FLYNN : SAN FRANCISCO — Acknowledging that most online shoppers cannot be bothered with auctions, eBay plans Wednesday to announce changes to its fee structure that emphasize fixed prices over bidding. The move is intended to help eBay compete more effectively with Amazon .com and other big online retailers. Read more…
By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM and PETER S. GOODMAN : Prices for goods purchased by American businesses surged more than expected in July and have jumped by nearly 10 percent over the last year — the sharpest increase since 1981. Read more…
Fitness : By LIZ ROBBINS : DARA TORRES, the 41-year-old Olympic swimmer with the impossibly chiseled abs who collected three silver medals in Beijing, has proved at the elite level that getting older doesn’t mean getting slower in the water. But put her aside for now.
Even outside the elite ranks, the 40-something (and older) swimmer of today is faster than the 40-something of yesteryear.
Researchers at the Counsilman Center for the Science of Swimming at Indiana University have found that the larger population of Masters swimmers (made up of 42,500 members ages 18 to 100-plus) has become faster over the last 20 years in age groups from 25 to 55, said Joel Stager, the director of the center. Read more…
By ERIK OLSEN : PENSACOLA, Fla. — For Thom Dietmeyer, a retired naval officer, standing again on the bridge of his old ship was a dream come true, even if he was 70 feet below the surface of the ocean. Read more…
By PETER JARET : In Brief: Hepatitis C can take decades to show up as damage to the liver.
Chronic viral hepatitis is now the leading reason for liver transplants.
Current combination therapy can be individualized to cure chronic infections in 40 to 80 percent of cases. Read more…
By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA : With advertising revenue sliding, publications try a lot of things online to get noticed, like — pardon the jargon — verticals, aggregation, user-generated content, popularity rankings and even something resembling social networks. Read more…
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