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  BOSTON - Many Americans will be wagering on this week's baseball World Series. For Taco Bell, the stakes are a free taco for everyone in the United States.

  

  CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) - The national average price for gasolinerose about 5 cents over the last two weeks, according to a surveyreleased Sunday.

  NEW YORK (Oct. 22) -- General Motors, which fell behind Toyota in global sales for the first time in the first three months of this year, has edged narrowly ahead of its Japanese rival in terms of 2007 sales.

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  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Merck &Co (MRK.N) on Monday said its third-quarter profit rose sharply, helped by sales of its vaccines and cholesterol drugs, and raised its 2007 profit forecast in view of strong current trends.

  By MARCUS KABEL=^The Associated Press=