February home sales rise as prices sink WASHINGTON - One month does not a recovery make. But a surprising leap in existing home sales in February was a welcome if tentative sign of hope that the real estate market may be stabilizing. Prize-winning 'Rabbit' writer John Updike dies NEW YORK - John Updike, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, prolific man of letters and erudite chronicler of sex, divorce and other adventures in the postwar prime of the American empire, died Tuesday at age 76. Updike, best known for his four "Rabbit" novels, died of lung cancer at a hospice near his home in Beverly Farms, Mass., according to his longtime publisher, Alfred A. Knopf. State lawmakers bet gambling can help with budgets ATLANTA - A tell-tale sign America's chips are down: States are increasingly turning to gambling to plug budget holes.
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