[Arkady]

For my work images I do as little as possible:
Do as much in RAW as possible - white balance, rough exposure correction etc.
Then open in Photoshop, adjust levels to suit output requirements (print always needs to bright and punchy).
I used to resize, but with the new D2x, I don't bother.
Apply sharpening as required in the Lightness channel only (about 150% with a radius between 1.0-1.5 pi and a threshold of about 2, though it obviously depends on the image).
Save as TIFF.
Full-frame crop to 12" along the long side at 175 dpi and save as a JPEG at about level 9 (or for a transmission time of about 60 seconds on a 56k modem connection) - this is the minimum quality acceptable to UK news-print media. The Picture Editor at the agencies will always crop your images to suit publication as will the Picture Editors at the newspapers, so I always give them the full-frame image, even if it's a bit 'loose'.
For magazine repro it has to be a 50-meg filesize, something more easily achieved with the D2x.

For personal work, I still get into the habit of saving a 'transmission' JPEG, just as it saves time if friends or family want to see a slideshow - nothing worse that waiting for 40meg TIFFS to load in Windows Picture Viewer (lol).