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• Aug 29, 2007

  Low prices come with low wages

  What'd you pay for that grill? As you enjoy a long weekend and Labor Day barbeques, Robert Reich suggests you think about how we as a nation traded in a unionized workforce with the bargaining clout to get higher wages for cheap goods and services.

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• Aug 29, 2007

  Thinking like an entrepreneur in college

  Most new college students are preoccupied with dorms, books and classes. But Claremont McKenna College freshman Ben Casnocha has something else on his mind: How to think like an entrepreneur during his four years.

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• Aug 29, 2007

  Music brings a sparkle to the Emerald City

  The housing market might be down nationwide, but in Seattle it's riding high. So the Emerald City is working hard to keep its sparkle — it hired 25 buskers to make music in the city's open spaces. Jamala Henderson reports.

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• Aug 29, 2007

  Quake fund break a boon for insurers?

  A new plan could give insurance companies a billion-dollar break on payments to the California Earthquake Authority. Amy Bach of United Policyholders talks about what it means for the industry as a whole.

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• Aug 29, 2007

  ‘Go’ Gulf zones two years after Katrina

  Two years after Hurricane Katrina, much of the Gulf Coast is still in ruins. Half of the $100 billion in aid is tied up in bureaucracy and funds are slow in getting to the hardest-hit areas. Sam Eaton reports.

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• Aug 28, 2007

  Venetian rolls into Macao

  It's almost exactly like The Venetian in Las Vegas, only this one's in Macao and it's bigger — in fact now the biggest gambling resort in the world. The Financial Times' Robin Quong tells us about the new resort's ambitions.

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• Aug 28, 2007

  Extra layer of protection for ultra-wealthy

  A wildfire in Idaho is threatening billions of dollars worth of high-end real estate and that has inspired one insurance company to go to unusual measures to avoid getting burned. Elizabeth Wynne Johnson has details.

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• Aug 28, 2007

  Moving mountains to mine coal

  Last Friday, the Bush Administration introduced coal-mining policy change that would loosen the requirement that coal operators prove their strip mining doesn't damage streams and wildlife. Commentator Jeff Biggers sees devestating results in the form of mountaintop removal.

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• Aug 28, 2007

  Katrina’s wrecks now Bolivia’s headache

  Cars damaged by Hurricane Katrina have been making their way into Bolivia for sale. "Katrina cars" are sold cheaply and look almost new on the outside, but have serious mechanical problems. Ruxandra Guidi has more.

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• Aug 27, 2007

  Bat Boy cast into cyberspace!

  It'll still be published online, but today's issue of Weekly World News will be the last to hit newsstands. For 28 years the paper greeted shoppers in the grocery checkout line with fantastical, OK, ludicrous tales, and commentator John Booth is going to miss it.

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