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* Gap Inc. named EBay Inc. Chief Executive Margaret Whitman and Dell Inc. Chief Financial Officer James Schneider to the board, raising the number of independent directors to nine.

* The Securities and Exchange Commission filed civil fraud charges against stock promoters who realized more than $1.6 million by allegedly pumping up shares of 2DoTrade Inc. with false claims that the company had an anti-anthrax compound in 2001.

* CNF Inc. of Palo Alto, owner of regional trucker Con-Way Transportation, agreed to pay $6.5 million in fines and plead guilty to charges that its now closed air-cargo unit, Emery Worldwide Airlines, violated federal laws on transporting hazardous materials.

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* Tenet Healthcare Corp., based in Santa Barbara, has agreed to sell its 524-bed Twelve Oaks Medical Center in Houston to Hospital Partners of America Inc. for about $25 million for the property, plant and equipment, the company said.

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