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Cut Your Prescription Drug Bill

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Surprising Levels of Germs in Vacuum Cleaners and Shopping Carts

cart Is e coli lurking in your vacuum cleaner brushes (and on your carpet) even though you keep a clean house? Watch this Today Show video and squirm. And what about the shopping cart in your supermarket? Some are actually more germy than a toilet seat. That has gotten some supermarkets to experiment with mini car washes that sanitize their carts.

Don't Let Them Flush Your Engine!

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  • Get Email Recall Notices for Your Car
  • Citi Begins Moratorium on Home Foreclosures
  • Scientists Find Benefits to Forgetting
  • New Way to Send Cash: Via an ATM
  • State Insurance Websites Rated by Consumer Fed [pdf]
  • Why Banks Are Raising Credit Card Rates/Fees
  • Banks Raising Fees to Record Highs; 2009 Worse
  • Fliers Reluctantly Accept Unbundled Airfares
  • Millions Lose Photos, Data Files on the PCs
  • Crusader Wins Overcharge Case Against Wal-mart
  • Only 50% of Adults Plan to Get Flu Shot
  • You Can Deduct 529 Educational Plan Losses
  • Where to Find Real Work at Home Jobs
  • Giftcards Go High Tech
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  • Top 5 Holiday Toy Hazards
  • 3 LCD TV Makers Plead Guilty to Price Fixing
  • Equifax Testing an Age ID Card for Net Use
  • HUD Unveils New Mortgage Disclosure Rules
  • Bad Times for Retailers, Better Deals for Shoppers
  • WSJ Tests Simulated Turkey Products
  • Comptroller Rejects Credit Card Forgiveness Plan
  • Stranded Fliers Get Diddly from Uncle Sam
  • New Federal Rules Aim to Cut Internet Gambling
  • Strategies for Saving the Most on Prescriptions pdf
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