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Stuck at home this weekend, feeling that seasonal urge to fear for your life? There's an iPhone app for that.

The Haunted House app brings zombies dead for centuries into the 21st century by allowing iPhone users to find information, directions and descriptions of haunts.

Specifications for the 2010 Mazda CX-7i four-door crossover utility vehicle.

Engine: 2.5-liter four-cylinder, 161 horsepower.

Transmission: Five-speed automatic with manual-shift mode.

Overall length: 15 feet 4 inches.

EPA passenger/cargo volume: 99/30 cubic feet.

Weight: 3,496 pounds.

EPA city/highway fuel consumption: 20/28 miles per gallon.

Mazda is making a grass is greener move with the 2010 CX-7 crossover utility vehicle.

When it was introduced in 2007, the CX-7 aspired to be a mid-level five-passenger CUV, competing then with the likes of the Acura RDX, Nissan Murano and Mercury Mariner. It pitted its 244-horsepower turbo four-cylinder engine against some competitors' six-cylinder motors.

2009 NISSAN CUBE KROM

TYPE: Front-drive, five-passenger, compact wagon.

PRICE: $19,730 base; $20,420 as tested.

WHERE BUILT: Oppama, Japan.

KEY RIVALS: Honda Element, Toyota Scion xB, Kia Soul.

POWER: 1.8-liter, 122-horsepower, DOHC 4-cylinder engineer; automatic CVT transmission.

There's a difference between stylish and faddish.

The Chrysler PT Cruiser is stylish.

The Nissan Cube is faddish -- unapologetically so.

As one of a series of conspicuous cartons, it shares a segment with the inelegant element from Honda and the boxy xB from Toyota's Scion youth division.

Foreclosure. It seems like half the country is in it and the other half is trying to make a killing on it.

The number of foreclosed homes staggers the imagination and with more adjustable-rate loans about to reset, the end is nowhere in sight. The crisis, however, provides the opportunity to purchase a house that was all but impossible for many to afford in the boom years.

Duncan Mathison, executive career consultant and former vice president of Drake Beam Morin, and Martha I.

If you missed out on the $8,000 federal tax credit for first-time homebuyers, which is set to expire after Nov. 30, don't despair.

One of two things will probably happen: Congress will extend the credit into next year or, if not, home prices will fall as demand falls off, perhaps by as much as $8,000.

Costco Wholesale plans to accept food stamps at its warehouse stores nationwide, a major shift for a company that earlier this year said it doubted there would be enough demand among customers to warrant accepting food stamps in even one market, New York City.

"Borderlands"

Platforms: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC

Genre: Action

Publisher: 2K Games

ESRB Rating: M for Mature

Grade: 3.5 stars (out of 5)