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Lee</span> </p> <p class="breaking">Chronicle Breaking News 7:33 AM</p> <ul class="subitems"> <li class="first"><a href="/web/20081017163453/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/17/BAOA13JID7.DTL">Man gets 50 years to life in decade-old rapes</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="item clearfix"> <h2><a href="/web/20081017163453/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/16/BUDT139QFN.DTL">Even eBay Suffering In This Economy</a></h2> <a href="/web/20081017163453/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/16/BUDT139QFN.DTL"><img class="thumb" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20081017163453im_/http://imgs.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2008/10/16_t/bu-crisis17_ebay_0499308637_t.gif" alt="Even eBay Suffering In This Economy"/></a> <div class="desc"> <p> Sales aren't what they once were for Peter Vasilev, owner of a consignment store that specializes in auctioning items on eBay. <span class="byline">Verne Kopytoff</span> </p> <ul class="subitems"> <li class="first"><a href="/web/20081017163453/http://www.sfgate.com/bayeconomy/">Coping With The Crisis: The Bay Area Economy</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="item clearfix"> <h2><a href="/web/20081017163453/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/16/MN8M13AC0N.DTL">This Is Your Brain ... 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