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Monkeying around with the family business
| Aug 3, 2005News Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch's sonquit the family business last week. Commentator Richard Conniff says the family feud is 100 percent natural — and completely out of place in a public company.
Steroid problems that outlated a nation
| Aug 3, 2005Sports officials in East Germany were some of the pioneers of steroid use. Now, the athletes who hauled in dozens of medals are paying an unwanted price. From Berlin, Kyle James reports.
Door-to-door drug delivery
| Aug 3, 2005Why we take the drugs we take can seem sort of black and white: Illegal drugs are bad, legal ones are good. But not all illegal drugs are bad. And the way we get the legal ones isn't always good. We followed a guy on the southside of Chicago who sells the drugs people need for their health.
After CNOOC
| Aug 3, 2005CNOOC is now out of the running for UNOCAL; the failed bid was the biggest U.S. acquisition ever attempted by a Chinese company. Part of the challenge China's companies face is that they are run differently than their US counterparts — for now. Jocelyn Ford reports.
The Public's Business: when China's yuan rises...
| Aug 3, 2005...US housing might just fall. Robert Reich explains the connection.
Torts for the EU
| Aug 2, 2005The European Competition Commissioner is set to announce a plan that will expand private anti-trust litigation. Stephen Beard reports on some Europeans' hopes to sue, sue, sue.
Staying ahead of the competition
| Aug 2, 2005Commentator Clyde Prestowitz is the author of <em>Three Billion New Capitalists</em>. He says to stay here we are, America is going to have to take a page from the competition.
We've got mail!
| Aug 2, 2005We hear from listeners on a symphonic leader, Citigroup's Sandy Weill, and losing industry to a neighbor. Send your comments to <a href="mailto:letters@marketplace.org">us here</a>.
What is poverty?
| Aug 2, 2005Despite rosy numbers from the Commerce Department — today we hear that personal incomes rose in June — millions of Americans still come up short when the bills arrive at the end of the month. From North Carolina Public Radio, Laura Leslie reports.
Going up?
| Aug 2, 2005We'd all love to get a break on gas prices. So why are some local governments telling select gas vendors to shape up — and pump them up? Nancy Marshall Genzer reports.
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