Friday, July 4, 2003 The Marketplace Morning Report with Kai Ryssdal and Tess Vigeland is a series of seven 9-minute business news modules airing weekdays. This timely report delivers a global business newscast and a hard-hitting feature report. Visit the archive to browse previous stories. Note: Each of the broadcasts contains some of the newscast items below and one of the features. Since only a few radio markets get all seven broadcasts, we've made them available below.

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Newscast Stories From New York: Judy Martin reports the SEC is speeding up its hiring process to hire 800 new accountants. From Paris: Genevieve Oger examines how drug scandals have affected sponsorship of the Tour de France. From Atlanta: Bruce Kennedy has some background on that bastion of barbecues: Tabasco sauce. From Los Angeles: Jessica Dial reports that the recent Arkansas Supreme Court decision on Wal-Mart is an important first step for union organizers because it lets them on the premises. From San Francisco: Alex Cohen has the story on a new Adbusters campaign to declare independence from corporate rule. From Tokyo: Jessica Smith says that “stress” is the most well known foreign word in Japan. From Los Angeles: Paddy Hirsch examines jetBlue’s logic in its latest expansion plans: jetBlue will increase its legroom -- is this an unneeded risk? From Los Angeles: Heidi Pickman does the 4th of July numbers on freedom, fireworks and flags. From Los Angeles: BB Rivero looks at the numbers on the pickle’s big day: the Fourth of July is the relish’s most critical holiday. Features Dieting is a full-time job Beware of the barbecue! Too much overindulgence, and you’ll have an extra full-time job on your hands: trying to lose weight! Marketplace’s Michelle Philippe runs down the many duties of the full-time dieter.

Japan’s camera-phone craze The U.S. has camera phones, but they’re nowhere near as popular as they are in camera-crazy Japan. From Tokyo, Jessica Smith offers this snapshot of how Japan’s camera-phone craze took off, and the prospects for the phone’s development in the U.S.