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The Home Depot will open 17 stores on Thursday, February 7 - the largest one-day store roll out in the company's 23-year history.

Internet users found a new reason to send e-mail - for emotional support - following the Sept. 11 attacks, and a UCLA study suggests that the discovery may transform use of the communications tool.

For those who can't stand to see one more triple toe loop on TV, there's help. Log on the Internet for the latest on curling or the biathlon.

Online payment provider PayPal Inc. on Wednesday delayed an initial public offering of stock that will test investors' tolerance for rapidly growing Internet companies saddled with heavy losses.

European Central Bank President Wim Duisenberg announced Thursday he will step down in 2003, three years before the end of his eight-year term.

Two companies are consolidating their national call center operations in metro Atlanta, creating 390 jobs by next January.

The highest-ranking Enron Corp. executive to undergo congressional questioning in the company's downfall says he didn't know the details of a complex web of partnerships that concealed some of the energy trading company's debt.

Ireland's biggest bank on Wednesday accused a currency trader at its Baltimore subsidiary of stealing $750 million in what could be the largest such scam since a rogue employee brought down England's Barings Bank in the mid-1990s.

Global Crossing Ltd. has asked a bankruptcy judge to approve a restructuring process that would forgive all the telecommunication firm's $12.4 billion of debt and leave $700 million in the company coffers for the new owners.

Sea turtles and trees are not normally associated with energy conglomerates such as Atlanta-based Southern Co.