12/05/12
Marketplace for Wednesday, December 5, 2012
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Fresh & Easy stores are leaving the U.S. because of lack of profit. Meanwhile, Starbucks plans for 1,500 new stores in the country over the next five years. AT&T hopes to help people understand their phone bills with short videos. A new British opera aims to explain confusing financial markets. Kai Ryssdal talks to artist and photographer Robert Burley about his new book and the collapse of the photo industry. And Nashville Mayor Karl Dean talks about his city’s rise in popular culture and whether or not that translates to economic growth.
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The Grammys and Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville mayor Karl Dean on his city's rising star and its hope to expand its music repertoire beyond country.
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Oil boom family is cramped but together
A year after her husband moved to North Dakota's oil fields from their home in Missouri, Shannon Atwell picked up her four boys and joined him.
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AT&T expands 'video bill' service
Video service aims to explain to customers where their money is going.
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Starbucks mulls question of where to expand
Coffee chain plans to apply lessons from previous expansion effort.
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British opera finds harmony in financial world
A British academic and banker have composed an opera that highlights the harmonies they find in the world of finance , which some view as a place of turbulence.
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The photo wars back then
A day when Apple stock would be ahead of Kodak on the Fortune 500 list? A laughable idea...in 2005. One photographer captures the end of the analog era.
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The Fresh & Easy grocery experiment may be over
Tesco, the U.K. retailer, started opening up a new kind of grocery store in the U.S. five years ago. More than a convenience store, almost a supermarket, Fresh & Easy hasn't found its place in shoppers' habits.
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AOL's history as told through New York Times crosswords
The very first clue -- Jan. 14th, 1997 -- "Prodigy competitor, for short."
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