Business & Economy

By ADAM WILMOTH
Monday, November 06, 2006
Record gasoline prices experienced over the past year have helped drive interest in alternative fuels. But it is still unclear as to which option is best for the country.

By DAN BROWNING, TONY KENNEDY and CHRIS SERRES
Monday, November 06, 2006
Bobby Johnson is still not used to the snide comments and envious glances.

Johnson, who owns the grain elevator in Morris, Minn., dates the resentment to a Nov.

By DAN BROWNING, TONY KENNEDY, CHRIS SERRES
Monday, November 06, 2006
The gleaming $110 million ethanol plant is still rising over their cornfields, but locals in Heron Lake, Minn. say it's already the best thing to happen here in decades.

By ROGER FILLION
Monday, November 06, 2006
Thomas Burns is among the tens of millions of people who make the vast eBay economy hum.

Surrounded by shelves crammed with around 100,000 record albums, Burns auctions vintage vinyl on eBay to make a living.

By DICK YOUNGBLOOD
Friday, November 03, 2006
Dave Ostlund has two passions: food and travel. That means all foods, said the onetime chef and self-described "food freak," including the chicken feet, fish eyes and snake innards he sampled on a recent trip to China.

By PAUL GRIMALDI
Friday, November 03, 2006
Beth Murphy slows down her Subaru Forrester as she reaches a tollbooth in southern New Hampshire.

She reaches into a slot in the car's console and pulls out 50 cents.

By JEFF SIMPSON
Sunday, November 05, 2006
Boyd Gaming Corp. Chairman Bill Boyd is a low-key kind of guy.

When he discusses memories from his two decades-plus as owner of the Stardust, he doesn't shed crocodile tears.

By LIZ BENTSON
Sunday, November 05, 2006
Tony Taeubel, until recently the general manager of the Stardust, can reel off the names of many of the historic property's longtime employees, casino games and property quirks, such as the time capsule buried somewhere beneath the parking lot decades ago that still hasn't been found.

By VICKIE LEE PARKER
Friday, November 03, 2006
Roxanne Quimby is at it again.

Quimby _ who built Burt's Bees from a roadside stand into a multimillion-dollar natural cosmetics company before selling it and moving to Maine three years ago _ has started another ecologically minded company.

By SUE STOCK
Friday, November 03, 2006
Looking for a holiday job? Here are some job-seeking tips:

_ Start now: Many stores are looking for help and hiring now. Don't wait until it's too late.