Monday, September 8, 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 examines how tough it could be for Bush to get an additional $87 billion to fight terrorism and rebuild Iraq and Afghanistan. From Grand Rapids, Mich.: Kaomi Goetz: looks at an upcoming bill on prison-made office furniture and the controversy surrounding it. From Los Angeles: Jessica Dial finds that Trump’s Atlantic City casinos are laying off nearly 300 workers. From Washington, DC: Steve Henn has the story on today’s Supreme Court hearing on campaign finance: the High Court is hearing arguments on the McCain-Feingold Act. From New York: Jessie Graham reports on MCI’s reorganization hearing this week. From Beijing: Jocelyn Ford takes a look at the financial troubles at China’s zoos: its zoos can’t feed all the animals. From Washington, DC: John Dimsdale has more on an EEOC meeting on streamlining the agency. From London: Stephen Beard says a committee of the European Parliament is meeting today to discuss allegations of fraud at the European Commission. From Washington, DC: Amy Scott reports that just as the Commerce Department is kicking off a $50 million advertising campaign to lure foreign tourists, the Bush administration is sending mixed messages with a new set of travel restrictions. Features Are changes afoot to China’s one-child policy? Faced with few people to help support an aging population, China is considering relaxing its long-standing rule that limits couples to having only one child. But as Marketplace’s Jocelyn Ford reports, not everyone in China is thrilled by the idea.

Britain’s video game designers are in trouble Is it “game over” for Britain’s video game manufacturers? As Marketplace’s Stephen Beard reports from London, some of the country’s best game designers are losing out to competition from Eastern Europe -- and the bright lights of Hollywood.

Buying Universal without any cash GE isn’t giving Vivendi any money for the purchase of its Universal entertainment unit. So, why is the French media conglomerate so excited? Host Kai Ryssdal gets the story behind the Vivendi deal with “Newsweek’s” Wall Street editor, Alan Sloan in this edition of “The Sloan Sessions.”