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A customer buys a copy of "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3" for the Xbox 360 during a launch event for the highly anticipated video game.

The Video Game 'Call Of Duty' Sets Sales Record

With about 6.5 million units sold the first day, the video game raked in more than $400 million.

Heart's Nancy Wilson onstage in 1983, looking very Jimmy Page.

'Stairway To Heaven' Turns 40: Celebrate With 7 Covers

If you let down your guard, these reworkings of the epic will reward your time.

Alex Footman worked as an unpaid intern for the award-winning film <em>Black Swan</em>. He and another former unpaid intern for the movie are suing the film's production company for back pay.

Unpaid Interns: Real World Work Or Just Free Labor?

Over 1 million Americans a year work as interns. About half of them are unpaid. Alex Footman was among them, working for the film Black Swan. "This really just seemed like I was just working and wasn't getting paid for it," Footman says. So he is suing for back pay.

Aaron Copland's Forgotten Score Re-Emerges

Quiet City was music that Aaron Copland wrote for playwright Irwin Shaw. Shaw's play of the same name was a flop, and Copland's original score was never published. Now, there's an encore to this story.

In Chicago, there's a hot market for condominium rentals, which means owners who weren't able to sell have a shot at covering their costs by becoming landlords.

Would-Be Sellers Become Reluctant Landlords

The rental market provides an alternative for many owners whose homes aren't selling during the housing downtown. But being a landlord can have unanticipated challenges.

What Does Beshear's Win Mean?

Some Republicans helped Gov. Steve Beshear win re-election. Beshear won predominantly Republican areas of Northern Kentucky, including Fort Thomas by 2…

Workers prepare new Volkswagen Golf cars at a factory in Wolfsburg, Germany.

German Economy Shines As Euro Loses Luster

Sharing a common currency with a group of fiscal losers has its benefits. The German economy gained strength over the past two years in large part because the European debt crisis weakened the euro. That made German exports more attractive to customers around the world.

Penn State Sex Abuse Scandal May Lead To New Laws

After an emotional week of revelations, the Penn State football team took the field on Saturday for the first time without its longtime coach Joe Paterno. A child sex abuse scandal involving a former coach has rocked the campus in State College, Pa.

Billings, Mont., has a diverse economic base, as evidenced by the confluence of stockyards, oil refineries and natural beauty. The unemployment rate for Billings' Yellowstone County was 5.3 percent in September, far lower than the national average.

Big Sky Country Has Lots Of Room For Optimism

Billings, Mont., has its share of natural resources. But residents attribute their ability to weather the economic storm to a diversification of services beyond oil — like agriculture, financial services and health care. "It's just a great day here in Billings," says a leader of a new library project.

<strong>A Labor of Love:</strong> For his "I Hate Perfume" collection, Christopher Brosius blends and bottles all of his scents by hand in his workshops. The process may be labor-intensive, but it allows him to create singular scents that can't be mass-produced.

Mmm, Is That Roast Beef You Smell? No, It's Perfume

Would you wear a perfume that made you smell like "A Day at the Beach?" How about "Baby's Butt?" If so, scent inventor Christopher Brosius can help. His Brooklyn boutique is at the vanguard of the anti-perfume movement.Would you wear a perfume that made you smell like "A Day at the Beach?" How about "Roast Beef," or "Baby's Butt?" If so, scent inventor Christopher Brosius can help. His Brooklyn boutique is at the vanguard of the anti-perfume movement

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