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Parenting is fulfilling, but the financial burden can be overwhelming—and then there's the crimp it puts in your leisure time

Investing in 'Fortress' Stocks

Worried about the credit crunch, slower growth, and falling profits? Consider some companies that could fare well even in the worst of times

Sun builds Constellation of petascale supercomputing

It's so big and diffuse that it's called a Constellation -- Sun has announced a new high-performance computing system that can scale up to 2 petaflops -- 2,000 trillion calculations per second. One installation is already in the works in Texas.