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A new study from Forrester Research, "Email Marketing Comes of Age" finds that 97 percent of consumers and 94 percent of marketers are using email. For marketers, consumers who embrace email are their most valuable customers. Consumers who are fans of email spend more online, make impulsive purchases, are willing to pay for convenience and communicate with others about ads and emails they value.

Nielsen/NetRatings released the second quarter statistics for the number of searches launched at all the major search engines. AOL and Ask Jeeves both enjoyed double digit growth, but remain pebbles in the search ocean.

Thousands have joined the search for 11-year-old Boy Scout Brennan Hawkins, who went missing Friday in the mountains of Utah. His fate unknown, officials nurture a hope that the boy stayed clear of nearby Bear River where rapids and deep waters can be treacherous.

When Pam Hearne of Long Island heard "a very loud bang" at 7 AM outside her South Floral Park home near JFK Airport, she judged it to be a cracking tree or noisy neighbors. Three and half hours later, she noticed a human leg and part of a torso in her yard.

Profits fell 8% in the third-quarter for News Corp. even though revenues grew heartily in its cable advertising and film units.

A 2002 discovery of fossilized skull in the African country Chad is now believed to be the oldest remains of human relative ever found.

Email users are successfully navigating their way through the waves of spam and retention requirements.