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TSA pockets over $1 million in change

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Richard Core
Jul 30, 2008
While travelers at America's imports are removing their shoes, putting laptop computers through separately and removing all items from their pock...
Posted In: airports, traveling, TSA
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Watchful eye sponsored by . . . the people of Flint

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Melissa Kaplan
Jul 30, 2008
The police department in Flint, Michigan could use a little extra cash to cover 14 new surveillance cameras. So the city's come up with a plan to...
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All a-Twitter over L.A. quake

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Richard Core
Jul 29, 2008
When the ground started moving here in Southern California, the "tweets" on Twitter started flowing. And it didn't take long for some online...
Posted In: earthquakes, Twitter
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Quake update

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Richard Core
Jul 29, 2008
Looks like the USGS has downgraded the magnitude of the quake to 5.4. . . . Ho hum. Back to work.
Posted In: earthquakes
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Shake-up at Marketplace -- and all L.A.

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Richard Core
Jul 29, 2008
We just got hit with one of the joys of life in Los Angeles -- an earthquake that had our downtown office rocking. The preliminary report from the...
Posted In: earthquakes
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JetBlue CEO latest to suffer with industry

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Melissa Kaplan
Jul 29, 2008
JetBlue reported $7 million quarterly loss last week, and CEO David Barger wants to show he, too, feels the pain. He's cutting his base salary in...
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Slow down, your auto-insurer is watching

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Richard Core
Jul 28, 2008
Would you be willing to have your auto-insurance company install a monitoring device in your car, on the chance that you could get lower rates? If...
Posted In: auto insurance
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Brits' economic indicator: Fewer pub visits

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Richard Core
Jul 28, 2008
It may be more a sign of a changing economy than bad times, but beer sales at British pubs have fallen to their lowest level since the Great...
Posted In: beer, Britain, pubs
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What search is 'cooler' than Google?

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Melissa Kaplan
Jul 28, 2008
You have to admire a brand new business going after a behemoth. This morning, Janet Babin covered a new rival search engine called Cuil --...
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Random act of greenness or a job well done?

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Richard Core
Jul 25, 2008
KB Home has announced it will commit to a new set of environmental standards in its housing developments, including making all of its new...
Posted In: greenwash, sustainability

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Three life rules from Donald Rumsfeld

Journalism: Practiced. Excellent interview. Thank you.

Annapolis57 | May 17, 2013
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Three life rules from Donald Rumsfeld

Donald Rumsfeld's interview on Marketplace today was absolutely unbelievable. Really. Is one of his rules not to believe your own spin? I...

jgrothues | May 16, 2013
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Three life rules from Donald Rumsfeld

Ryssdal's interview with Rumsfeld was breathtakingly inappropriate. "Marketplace?" If Ryssdal wants to promote his obvious biases...

rcd43 | May 16, 2013
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How World Finance makes a killing lending on the installment (loan) plan

There is something fundamentally wrong with predatory lending businesses, whether they are pay day loans or installment contracts. The business...

entropyman | May 15, 2013

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