Business & Technology

By TRACY CORREA
Monday, November 13, 2006
Dr. Leo Shishmanian, a 75-year-old Fresno, Calif., radiologist, retired once, but it ended up being more like a hiatus.

In 1999, he stopped working and traveled with his wife.

By TRACY CORREA
Monday, November 20, 2006
Dr. Leo Shishmanian, a 75-year-old Fresno, Calif., radiologist, retired once, but it ended up being more like a hiatus.

In 1999, he stopped working and traveled with his wife.

By DAVID ARMSTRONG
Monday, November 13, 2006
It's increasingly good to go green in the hotel business, an industry long associated with constructing and renovating big buildings and using powerful chemicals for cleaning and maintenance rather than being environmentally friendly.

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By WADE RAWLINS
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Forest insect researcher Robert Jetton stopped the van near a stand of eastern hemlocks in Dupont State Forest when he saw what he was seeking: tiny seed cones that could save the evergreens from extinction.

The slow-growing eastern hemlock, a pillar of Appalachian forests, grows 150 feet tall and lives 700 to 800 years.

By DARRELL SMITH
Friday, November 10, 2006
Two kids inside at a time only, please. All others, form a line outside the door.

Since school started this fall, that's been the before-and after-school rule at a Walgreens in Elk Grove, Calif.

By PAUL MONIES
Thursday, November 09, 2006
At first, the young man kept to himself and didn't say a word to many of his new co-workers at National Oilwell Varco.

But a few months later, he's beginning to communicate with fellow employees and supervisors, said Kirk Hurst, vice president of manufacturing and sourcing.

By MATHEW INGRAM
Thursday, November 09, 2006
If you read about Google's recent plan to sell ads in newspapers and wondered whether you were seeing things, don't feel bad. More than one person probably came away from the announcement this week thinking: "Why on earth would the world's most powerful online player be interested in a boring, old-fashioned business like newspapers?"

The short answer is that while Google made its name as a search engine, it now makes virtually all of its money from advertising.

By DALE KASLER
Thursday, November 09, 2006
Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys showed up once, in a bathrobe.

Bruce Willis spent $15,000 in one glorious shopping spree. Elton John was practically a regular.

By LESLEY MITCHELL
Monday, November 20, 2006
Opening as early as 5 a.m. the day after Thanksgiving with a host of "doorbuster" specials is a modern retail tradition.

But what about a minute after midnight?

Mall owner General Growth Properties said that seven of its malls nationwide that will open moments after midnight on the much hyped Black Friday.