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The nurse practitioner will see you now

| Mar 25, 2013
With millions of newly insured patients ready to descend on the health care system, there won't be enough primary care doctors to go around.
Posted In: doctors, nurses
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Maine lobster could get a marketing boost

| Apr 10, 2013
The lobster industry in Maine has proposed higher fees in order to spend big bucks on advertising. Some lobstermen say that’s a waste of money, but others hope it will increase demand.
Posted In: Food, lobster, maine, marketing
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Drugged-up American horsemeat sold to Europe

| Dec 11, 2012
About 140,000 horses from the U.S. were sold to be eaten abroad. But some horses were never meant for human consumption.
Posted In: horse, horses
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Payday loan becomes monthly ordeal

| Jan 9, 2012
Commentator Mark Laws found himself on a "rat wheel" trying to pay off a loan to attend his mother's funeral.
Posted In: My Life Is True, payday loans
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Life not so rosy for women selling Mary Kay cosmetics

| Jul 26, 2012
Mary Kay is a storied brand in the beauty products industry. But an investigative story in Harper's Magazine suggests the company's success comes at the expense of the women who sell the products.
Posted In: mary kay, ponzi
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Olympian priorities: Gold or green?

| Jul 20, 2012
Thirty-five-year-old Olympic high jumper Jamie Nieto talks about struggling in the pursuit of gold.
Posted In: high jump, Jamie Nieto, London Olympics, Personal Finance, spending, sponsorship
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Fisher Island: America's most exclusive zip code

| Jan 25, 2013
Just off the coast of Miami is one of the richest places in the country. Marketplace takes a tour of the ultra-exclusive enclave.
Posted In: Fisher Island, luxury, Miami, real estate, wealthy
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Prof. to student: Get your s*** together

| Feb 24, 2010
A student at NYU's Stern School of Business was frustrated when a professor told him to leave for being an hour late to class. He wrote the professor an e-mail . . . and got his own private lecture.
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Fact Check: The truth behind fracking claims in 'Promised Land'

| Jan 8, 2013
Dead cows in Pennsylvania? Sorting out fact from fiction in the new feature movie "Promised Land" starring Matt Damon, which examines the underworld of the booming industry of hydraulic fracturing
Posted In: fracking
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The Statue of Liberty Mutual

| Apr 1, 2013
The sequester and other coming government cuts have led the federal government to sell naming rights to monuments and national parks.

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