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Late Fees, Money Magazine

| Mar 5, 2005
Even if you sit down to pay your bills once a month, chances are you're racking up some late fees. We offer you a late fee checklist from Money Magazine's Cybele Weisser.

Market Review

| Mar 5, 2005
1999, maybe. But no one wants to party like its 2000. That was the year the stock market started to stumble. NASDAQ hit an all time high, and then fell. Dot coms lost their way. Layoffs were announced and a little thing called inflation entered the news. Some point to similar factors in our economy today. Newsweek's Allan Sloan compares and contrasts with Kai.
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Identity Protection

| Mar 5, 2005
You've done everything you're supposed to do: you've shredded your credit card statements, kept your social security number to yourself, and checked your credit report regularly. But what if a company like Bank of America or ChoicePoint -- loses your personal information -- and you didn't even know they had it in the first place? Marketplace's Alisa Roth finds out what do you need to know about the companies that know so much about you.

Training Iraq's new soldiers

| Mar 4, 2005
In Iraq the death toll of U.S. soldiers reached 1500 this week. But the the number of U.S. soldiers killed has fallen noticably over the past month. The U.S. says it's making progress helping Iraqis provide for their own security. Though much of the training is not being done in Iraq. It's being done at a state-of-the-art camp much closer to the West Bank than Baghdad.From a facility near Amman, Jordan, Nancy Updike reports.

The week that was ... on Wall Street

| Mar 4, 2005
Friday means it's time to check in, David with David. Host David Brown talks to Dallas stockbroker David Johnson about the week that was on Wall Street.

Prepping for the new SAT's

| Mar 4, 2005
We have reports of widespread nail-biting right now. One week from tomorrow, 300,000 high schoolers sit for the new version of the SAT. There's a new advanced math section. And a 25 minute essay portion with questions like... 'Are people more motivated by money and fame or by personal satisfaction?' Answering "yes" will lower your score. That's our tip.If you're looking for some real test-taking advice, it'll cost you. Work and Family correspondent Sarah Gardner reports.

Seven habits of a highly effective business writer

| Mar 4, 2005
Hey, did you get into business school? Some may know their status even though admission letters haven't gone out. Someone posted directions on the web on how to hack admissions records at some prestigious biz schools.Harvard, Stanford, Duke and Dartmouth among them. Today Harvard said the school views this as electronic breaking and entering. The school also said it knows the identities of the roughly 100 people who tried to crack the database. No word yet on whether Harvard's rethinking its list of those admitted to business school. What we do know is that someone who used to teach there is feeling rather ripped off. Commentator and management consultant Martin Kihn tells us that story. <p>Consultant Martin Kihn is author of a book about marketing - called "House of Lies".

Selling the Mount Airy Lodge

| Mar 4, 2005
In the market for a dozen crystal chandeliers? How about a bright red bathtub? Those are just some of the fairly schlocky items for sale this weekend in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. As Aries Keck reports from WHYY in Philadelphia, the auction is to sell off the bits and pieces of the once-grand Mount Airy Lodge.

Crime, and the IRA

| Mar 4, 2005
The Irish political party, Sinn Fein holds its annual conference in Dublin today. The party is under severe pressure. The British and Irish governments claim Sinn Fein - and its terrorist wing the IRA - were involved in the biggest bank robbery in European history. As Stephen Beard reports from London, the allegations have focused attention on the IRA as a money-making machine.

You can drive my car!

| Mar 4, 2005
The Indy Racing League kicks off its season in Miami this weekend. From the Job Files today... here's the race car driver.

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