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Putting a price on your pet's health

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Gregory Warner | Feb 17, 2012
The price of looking after your pet is rising as far and fast as the cost of human healthcare. Gregory Warner reports on why we are willing to pay so much for our animals.
Posted In: animals, care, cats, dogs, healthcare, pets, surgery
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The return of manufacturing?

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Robert Reich | Feb 22, 2012
The GOP candidates and President Obama all have plans to boost manufacturing, but commentator Robert Reich says they're mostly wishful thinking.
Posted In: Barack Obama, manufacturing, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, unions
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Ferris Bueller, 25 years later

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Adriene Hill | Feb 21, 2012
Movies can help set our expectations for how life may turn out. So, how did life turn out for the graduates of Ferris Bueller's high school, the real one?
Posted In: change, Entertainment, Ferris Bueller, movies
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission releases audio of Fukushima disaster

Interview with
Alex Chadwick | Feb 21, 2012
Alex Chadwick, host of "BURN: An Energy Journal," discusses the conversations at the NRC as the agency became aware of last year's nuclear disaster in Japan.
Posted In: Fukushima, Japan, nuclear energy, nuclear power
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Welcoming more immigrants could help boost the U.S. economy

| May 5, 2011
Immigration policy may be a place to look for economic growth in the U.S.
Posted In: Immigration
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New plan to be outlined for U.S. corporate tax code

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Eve Troeh | Feb 22, 2012
The Obama administration today will outline a broad overhaul of the nation's corporate tax code that will lower the tax rate that businesses pay, but could increase to amount of tax revenue heading to Washington.
Posted In: corporate, corporate tax, corporations, Obama
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Build your flat-packed furniture faster

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Marc Sanchez | Feb 22, 2012
There's no way IKEA furniture is this easy.
Posted In: frustration, Ikea, video
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Comcast dives into the stream

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Marc Sanchez | Feb 22, 2012
A lot of swimmers in that pool
Posted In: Comcast, hulu, netflix, streaming
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Key French bank slashes its Greek debt

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John Dimsdale | Feb 15, 2012
BNP Paribas, France’s largest bank, cut the value of its Greek debt by 75 percent. Markets were fine. Does that offer a glimmer of hope in the crisis?
Posted In: BNP Paribas, greek bailout, Greek debt
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Buddy, why can't we save a dime?

Interview by
Tess Vigeland | Feb 16, 2012
On the advent of America Saves Week, Tess talks with Sheldon Garon, Princeton prof and the author of "Beyond Our Means: Why America Spends While the World Saves."
Posted In: savings America budget banks post office Japan Germany

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