Wal-Mart Challenges Target, Amazon In DVD Price War

Wal-Mart Stores Inc kicked off another price war on Thursday, cutting online preorder prices of some upcoming DVDs to $10, while rivals Target and Amazon scrambled to follow suit.

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Successful Flight Through Enceladus Plume. The Cassini spacecraft has weathered the Monday, Nov. 2, 2009, flyby of Saturn’s moon Enceladus in good health and has been sending images and data of the encounter back to Earth. Cassini had approa...


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Americans buy about 5 million things that are shaped like Mickey Mouse, or have a picture of Mickey Mouse on them in the course of a day.

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