Can teens and lattes help stem Borders' losses?

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Those cheap CDs and DVDs you bought on sale this spring and summer cost Borders bookstores dearly, but kids' books and coffee hold future profits.

Borders Group Inc. (BGP) posted a loss of $45.6 million, nearly five times the losses of $9.2 million it showed last year. But after factoring out $32.9 million in restructuring charges, the net loss dropped to $12.7 million, or 21 cents per share. Still, that is worse than analysts' expectations of a loss of 16 cents per share.

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