11/01/05
Marketplace PM for November 1, 2005
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Keeping warm vs. global warming
Oil and natural gas prices fell today; crude's down near $59 a barrel. But as <a href="http://marketplace.publicradio.org/reporters/hartman.html">Mitchell Hartman</a> reports from Portland, Oregon, even the best of intentions can have unintended consequences.
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Wal-Mart gets pre-warning warning
The Labor Department got some serious grief from its own inspector general this week for giving Wal-Mart a heads-up before coming to investigate. <a href="http://marketplace.publicradio.org/reporters/glaser.html">Cheryl Glaser</a> fills us in.
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Farms reclaimed in South Africa
It has been more than ten years since the end of apartheid in South Africa. Now, for the first time, the government is aggressivelytransferring land from white farmers to blacks. <a href="http://marketplace.publicradio.org/reporters/fitzpatrick.html">Terry FitzPatrick</a> reports.
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Tax reform hits the fan
Today the President's tax reform panel formally issued its recommendations. Their goal was to make the tax code simpler and more fair. <a href="http://marketplace.publicradio.org/reporters/tong.html">Scott Tong</a> looks to see if it will be.
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Bush decides to be prepared for bird flu
At the White House this morning the President rolled out his plan to protect the country from a bird flu pandemic. <a href="http://marketplace.publicradio.org/reporters/palmer.html">Helen Palmer</a> reports from the Marketplace Health Desk at WGBH.
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The cost of preventing bird flu
The president wants to spend $7.1 billion of the people's money to guard against avian flu. But medical historian and commentator Howard Markel wonders whether it's being spent wisely.
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Destination ANWR
Congress is in the midst of its budget reconciliation. Being debated today: cutting $39 billion from Medicaid and student loans programs, and opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. <a href="http://marketplace.publicradio.org/reporters/scott.html">Amy Scott</a> reports.
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