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Jul 3, 2010
Small talk: Light sabers, wine machines
Marketplace's Brendan Newnam and Rico Gagliano chat with fellow staffers Dalasie Michaelis, Bill Radke and Stacey Vanek-Smith about real light sabers, wine vending machines and the worst (or best) drunk story ever.
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Jul 3, 2010
Into the ‘Honda Jungle’ of the Amazon
There are no roads for cars in or out out of Peruvian town Iquitos, which is deep in the Amazonian rainforest — so Honda opened a motorcycle factory to cater to local needs.
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Jul 3, 2010
Summer Reading: Kevin Pereira
Kevin Pereira, co-host of G4TV's "Attack of the Show," shares his summer reading pick: A guide on business management that throws convention out the window.
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Jul 3, 2010
Weekly Wrap: The job market, financial reform
Reuters's Felix Salmon and the Atlantic's Megan McArdle talk with Tess Vigeland about the latest unemployment figures and what it means for the recovery, and the financial reform bill.
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Jul 3, 2010
Black workers at a disadvantage
Host Tess Vigeland talks to Steven Pitts of the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research about the job market for African Americans and the numbers from the center's latest report.
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Jul 2, 2010
Relaxed licensing rules worry D.C. tour guides
Washington, D.C.'s local government is relaxing the rules for licensing wanna-be tour guides, which has a few of them worried about protecting their turf.
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Jul 2, 2010
Dan Hesse: Bio
CONVERSATIONS FROM THE CORNER OFFICE: Sprint CEO Dan Hesse.
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Jul 2, 2010
Dan Hesse: Full interview transcript
CONVERSATIONS FROM THE CORNER OFFICE: Sprint CEO Dan Hesse.
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Jul 2, 2010
Summer Reading: Gustavo Arellano
Southern California has always been a place of mythologies. It's the epicenter of kink and corruption in the hard-boiled novels of Raymond Chandler. It's the epitome of vapid phoniness in many Hollywood movies. What we have next is a historical look of the famed So Cal, in commentator Gustavo Arellano's summer reading pick.
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Jul 2, 2010
Why can’t I get health insurance?!
New high-risk insurance pools will mean people who were denied health-care insurance because of preexisting conditions will now have access to coverage. And that means fewer calls like these. From the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, comedy sketch group "Nice Kitchen" performs.
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