Most IRA minimum withdrawals had to be made by Dec. 31, 2012, but account owners can make cash gifts to charities up to the amount of their December withdrawals through Jan. 31, 2013, and count those as IRA direct donations.

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If Facebook is inching toward becoming a search engine, a deep well of questions and answers would be a nice addition to augment the ready-made streams of news and status updates that could make up its results.

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