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  • The management at the Four Seasons Aviara in San Diego is in a dispute with the resort's owners over improving business. Owners don't want to lower prices at the risk of diluting the brand. Joel Rose reports.

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  • Chinese companies have been taking advantage of low valuations by buying up natural resources. Now Chinese investors are buying a minority stake in the Cleveland Cavaliers, and commentator Shaun Rein says that's a good thing.

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  • A public-private venture with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is being used to test a potential malaria vaccine. The collaboration may provide a viable business model for developing drugs for poor countries. Megan Williams reports.

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  • Home prices continue to drop. Analysts say without major economic recovery the market will continue plummeting. Tamara Keith reports on whether the bottom is even in sight.

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  • Deciding how to regulate the financial system may be difficult thanks to complications like the purchase accounting rule, which makes bank earnings look sweeter than they otherwise would. Jeremy Hobson reports.

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  • What could Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court nomination mean to businesses, labor and investors? Bill Radke talks to law professor Donald Langevoort.

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  • "Jarhead" author Anthony Swofford recalls how, despite needing to save money for college, he just couldn't schlep deep dish in the desert while still a member of the world's most elite fighting force.

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  • Teens looking for jobs this summer will have to compete with people twice their age to find work. Bob Moon talks with Carol Christen, co-author of "What Color is Your Parachute for Teens," about ways to stand out in a downturn.

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  • Two years ago, we started to see the trickling beginnings of the Bear Stearns mortgage-backed securities debacle. Steve Chiotakis talks to Fortune Magazine's Allan Sloan about why we should remember how it all began.

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  • Even modest, diversified and longterm-focused investors were thwarted by the collapse of Wall Street So what should they do next? Writer and author Jeffrey Goldberg thinks they should start by taking a good long look at their brokers.

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