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A6 Avant: The superhero wagon?
The A6 Avant test car came standard with a 3.2 liter FSI V-6 with 255 horsepower and 243 pound-feet of torque. You can upgrade with a choice of V-8 and V-10 engines if you need more boost.
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Spring salads
As the weather warms up our thoughts turn to outdoor entertaining and fresh foods and salads. Need to update your recipe files? Help is just a click away. Tons of quick videos demonstrating cooking techniques and an extensive archive of recipes and other exclusively culinary content.
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• Work begins at new Silver Cross site
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• Economy slows Plainfield shopping center plan
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Author shows the dark side of modeling life
As a little girl, Michelle Niemiec loved to wear cute clothes and pose for pictures. She'd play "dress up" and host little fashion shows in her basement while dreaming of modeling and becoming rich and famous through it. What she got instead was her worse nightmare.


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Woman indicted in mortgage fraud case

WHEATON -- A DuPage County grand jury has returned a seven-count indictment of fraud and forgery against a Yorkville woman for her business practices as a mortgage broker.

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• Burger King woos moms with healthier meal
• T-Mobile launches home service today
• Market experts say ride out the storm

Visionary 'Knight' is dark and stormy
It has become standard operating procedure to envision superheroes as tortured figures yet no superhero movie has been as doom-laden as "The Dark Knight." Oppressive but never overwrought, it's a comic-book adaptation in which there will be blood. The film employs staggering cinematic artistry.


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• Visionary 'Knight' is dark and stormy
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