Companies with less-than-sterling credit are rushing to sell bonds and take advantage of low interest rates.

Junk Bonds Are Back on Top

Publishers are scaling back on picture books as more parents favor text-heavy chapter books for their young children.

Picture Books No Longer a Staple for Children

The shoddy preparation of foreclosure documents is hammering the market, especially in the worst-hit states.

Flawed Foreclosure Documents Thwart Home Sales

Attending “Time Stands Still” can feel like eavesdropping on two cherished friends at their most vulnerable and emotionally exposed.

Wounds of War Run Deeper Than Ever

In awarding the prize to Liu Xiaobo, the Nobel Committee delivered a stinging rebuke of China’s growing intolerance for domestic dissent.

Nobel Peace Prize Given to Jailed Chinese Dissident

Traders looked beyond the struggling jobs market report to the prospect of greater quantitative easing from the Fed.

Faith in Fed Pushes Dow Past 11,000

The United States economy lost 95,000 nonfarm jobs in September, the result of a decline in government jobs at all levels.

Public Jobs Drop Amid Slowdown in Private Hiring

Set mostly in Newark in 1944 and suffused with tenderness, Philip Roth’s novel tells the story of a military reject, a young phys ed teacher, who turns a polio outbreak into his own patriotic battleground.

Summer of ’44

The revamped Scion tC continues the previous model’s value proposition — offering lots of standard features and a sporty profile — but its new look is a bit plain.

A Canvas You Can Paint With Cash

What began as the premier Packard dealership in Dayton, Ohio, then lay dormant for decades, is now a center for all things Packard.

Frozen in Time, a Palace Worthy of the Packard

The action by Bank of America is likely to increase pressure on lenders to declare their own moratoriums.

Largest U.S. Bank Halts Foreclosures in All States

Films and reissued CDs are among the works celebrating John Lennon, who would have turned 70 on Saturday.

Long After Death, Lennon Remains an Inspiration

An alliance among farmers, an aid group and a producer is helping to bring Afghan raisins to a wider market.

Raisins Give Hope to Afghan Farmers

Using detritus from a junkyard, the New York Philharmonic wakes up Avery Fisher Hall with Lindberg’s “Kraft.”

A Night for a Rhapsodic Violin And an Old Brake Drum

The scaling back in flights reflects a more timid — and perhaps chastened — industry than in previous decades.

Flying Fewer Planes, Airlines Find Stability

Competition is growing between SoulCycle and Flywheel, two stationary cycling classes in New York.

In New York, a Rivalry Shifts Into High Gear

Now that the Tea Party has stolen much of her thunder, Ann Coulter, the conservative columnist, is taking some new positions.

Outflanked on Right, Coulter Seeks New Image

The continued weakness of the dollar around the world means that New York is still a good deal for many foreign buyers.

The Dollar Made Them Do It

After more than three years of using AT&T networks, Apple is said to be making an iPhone 4 for Verizon.

Apple Plans to Offer iPhone on Verizon

What happened when a Dutch theatrical company asked to buy the rights to the character played by an anticonsumerist activist.

Reverend Billy’s Revelation: A Role for Money

Thursday’s New York City Ballet premiere of “Plainspoken” highlighted the give-and-take and push-pull relationships between men and women, in keeping with the lightweight tone of the Ballet’s whole gala.

What Do Women (or Men) Want? A Gala’s Question

“Invisible: Slavery Today,” at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, takes a brutal look at a terrible plight.

An Unseen Evil Still Ensnaring Countless Souls

The tramway, a commuter’s version of the 35-year-old utopian community that it connects to Midtown, is undergoing a seven-month, $25 million renovation.

Roosevelt Island’s Flying Buses to Return Soon

Catherine Hooper founded a company that sells plans to help with unexpected events. She calls it Black Umbrella.

An Optimistic Seller of Disaster Plans

Americans once seemed to think a perpetually improving lifestyle was written into the Constitution. But the average person’s standard of living could turn out to be the main casualty of the debt crisis.

An Inevitable Slide for Americans’ Standard of Living

Frank Bourgholtzer was an American journalist and television correspondent.

Frank Bourgholtzer, American journalist (born 1919)

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Lady Eileen Crofton was a British physician and author. She was best known for her anti-smoking campaigns.

October 8, 2010

Headlines from October 8, 2010

Junk Bonds Are Back on Top

Picture Books No Longer a Staple for Children

Flawed Foreclosure Documents Thwart Home Sales

Wounds of War Run Deeper Than Ever

Nobel Peace Prize Given to Jailed Chinese Dissident

Billboard 200

You Get What You Give

Hands All Over

A Thousand Suns

A Year Without Rain

Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics Of All Time

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for October 8, 2010