Cathie Black is president of Hearst Magazines and author of Basic Black: The Essential Guide for Getting Ahead at Work (and in Life), a practical and motivational guide for women in the workplace.

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Vehicle damage reports like CarFax are widely available on the Internet and make it easy to spot cars that have been suffered heavy flood damage, said Ricky Beggs, vice president and managing editor of Black Book, a guide to the wholesale market for used car dealers.

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The box set, which weighs a little under 10 pounds, features its 33 DVDs and CDs (yes, the show's soundtrack albums are included) comfortably ensconced in heavy cardboard black pages and comes complete with an episode guide, collector's album and video extras.

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The online guide features attention-grabbing yellow and black boxes of text exhorting would-be graduates to pay particular attention to the advice contained in them.

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Patterson pencils in ruled lines on the sheets to guide his writing and erases them when he is done, leaving black ink on creamy white pages.

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