Over an office network connection, the 1-GHz and 500-MHz PCs served up pages at about an equal pace -- even the heavy-graphics, heavy-traffic websites that choke my doughty four-year-old Macintosh.

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Asian markets spending on trade infrastructure at a pace nearly equal to their U.S. and European counterparts.

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The inventory of previously owned homes listed for sale, meanwhile, increased to 2.43 million, equal to a 6.4-month supply at the current sales pace and just above a healthy level of about six months.

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