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Oil prices have taken their biggest tumble in two and-a-half years. That has some experts saying gas prices could fall 50 cents a gallon this summer. Have high gas prices caused you to cancel travel plans and summer vacations, or are you willing to cough up the extra cash to go where you want?

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Ignored in all the buzz over why everyone should own an iPad tablet computer is the fact that iPad magazine sales are sputtering. Sales may now get a jump start thanks to subscription pricing, which will make iPad-based magazines much cheaper to read.

The New York Post reports that The New Yorker and other Conde Nast publications will soon be offered at subscription rates. That will drop the price to $1.99 each, instead of the current newsstand price.

That will certainly help because, so far, it appears few dedicated magazine readers who are used to discounted subscription rates would pay $3.99 or $4.99 just to see the same material electronically. But price is only one issue. Read More...

To the surprise of no one, CBS News 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley has been named the new anchor of the CBS Evening News. He will replace outgoing anchor Katie Couric on June 6.

Pelley represents a return to the roots of CBS News. Not only has he been with the network for 20 years, he's a native Texan like former anchors Dan Rather and Bob Schieffer. Like Rather, Pelley is ascending to the anchor chair after a long tenure of digging up hard news stories for 60 Minutes.

Because Pelley's promotion is such a natural fit, he will not generate the headlines that Couric did when she jumped from NBC to CBS for $15 million dollars a year in 2006. While she too has a reporting background, her smiley persona on NBC's Today show made it easy for critics to write her off as a lightweight personality who didn't have the chops for a network evening news broadcast. Read More...

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The tornadoes that struck the Southeast are the deadliest since the Great Depression. In the past few years, we've seen the earthquake and tsunami off Sumatra that killed 155,000 people, Hurricane Katrina's devastation of New Orleans and this year's earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Do you think natural disasters are getting worse or is there just so much news coverage that it seems that way?

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