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    By Sam Gustin

    | 4:14PM 6/29/2010
    Democrats said Tuesday they would reopen the Wall Street reform bill in an effort to secure enough support for its passage after Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts, one of the few Republicans to vote for the bill, said he could no longer support it due to the inclusion of a $20 billion bank tax.

    By Jonathan Berr

    | 10:30AM 11/23/2009
    Volunteers who maintain Wikipedia are quitting in droves, burnt out from the stress of maintaining the free online encyclopedia. According to The Wall Street Journal, the site has seen a net loss of 49,000 editors during the first three months of the year, 10 times the net loss of 4,900 during the...