Japan Quake Is Causing Costly Shift to Fossil Fuels

By HIROKO TABUCHI

Max Hodges for The New York Times

The Yokosuka power plant creates 900,000 kilowatts of electricity, and abundant fumes.

YOKOSUKA, Japan — To meet electricity demand, Japan has fired up fossil-fuel plants at great environmental and economic costs.

Longtime Nuclear Plant Opponents Are Heard in Japan

Once Again, Fear Sends Stocks Down

By GRAHAM BOWLEY and CHRISTINE HAUSER

Europe’s debt crisis and weakness in the American economy once again sent stock market indexes lower.

U.S. to Offer Oil Leases in the Gulf

By JOHN M. BRODER

WASHINGTON — The proposed sale, scheduled for Dec. 14, will be the first sale in the part of the gulf bordering Texas since the summer of 2009 and the first sale of any kind in the gulf since March 2010.

Chinese Premier Sounds Confident Note on U.S. Economy

By MICHAEL WINES

BEIJING — In a second day of meetings Friday with Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., Vice President Xi Jinping called for new measures to restore confidence in global financial markets.

As PCs Wane, Companies Look to Tablets

By VERNE G. KOPYTOFF and IAN AUSTEN

Computer makers are expected to ship only about 4 percent more PCs this year than last year, while tablets are flying off store shelves.

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Norilsk Offers Share Buyback to End Long Dispute

By ANDREW E. KRAMER

Russia's largest mining operator offered to buy most of the shares held by one of the company's two feuding owners.

In a Race to Out-Rave, 5-Star Web Reviews Go for $5

By DAVID STREITFELD

A thriving industry is buying and selling rapturous reviews on the Web, and academics and businesses are looking for ways to ferret out the fakes.

Graphic: Is That Review a Fake?

Products like soaps and toothpaste contain triclosan, an antibacterial additive.

Antibacterial Chemical Raises Safety Issues

By ANDREW MARTIN

Regulators, consumer advocates and soap manufacturers are locked in a battle over triclosan, the active ingredient in antibacterial soaps like Dial Complete.

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Questioning the Dogma of Tax Rates

By JAMES B. STEWART

The idea of equalizing capital gains and ordinary income rates has become the third rail of tax policy and electoral politics.

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Your Voice Mail May Be Even Less Secure Than You Thought

By RON LIEBER

Caller ID spoofing, the way hackers gain access to phone voice mail accounts, can also be used to get someone else’s credit card information.

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Warning from the health care industry about jobs; anxiety over Europe roils markets; Nordstrom’s new effort in New York; and a summer camp introducing girls to manufacturing.

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The Hidden Dangers In Safe Havens

By PAUL SULLIVAN

Investors who rush to Treasuries or gold in times of turmoil should be thinking about when to get back into other securities.

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Jeff Sommer with Graham Bowley and Floyd Norris on the troubled markets; Susanne Craig on a bidding war for Internet analysts; Tyler Cowen on declining productivity; and Paul Lim on a silver lining for stocks.