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• May 25, 2007

  Mash on over to StarWars.com

  Lucas Films couldn't help but notice that people are creating all sorts of unauthorized Star Wars mash-ups on YouTube. So they're releasing hundreds of video clips on their own site, hoping to draw all those eyes over to their advertisers. Jeremy Hobson reports.

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• May 25, 2007

  Not your father’s American Dream

  A new study reveals that while American men are working harder than the generation before them, they are earning less. Families are keeping pace because two-income households are now the norm. Jeremy Hobson reports.

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• May 25, 2007

  Crumbs for kids

  Commentator Eugene Steuerle says that focusing on children may be the only real way we'll ever straighten out the government's budget problems.

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• May 24, 2007

  Are America’s days as top dog numbered?

  Forecasters believe that China will outstrip the U.S. as the globe's top manufacturer in just a dozen years. But China's growing domestic market could even things out in the long run. Jeremy Hobson reports.

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• May 24, 2007

  Private equity tax loophole, take two

  Robert Reich got a lotta mail about his suggestion to tax private equity earnings as income. Seems folks think fund managers would just move that money offshore instead. He says if that's the case, they should follow their cash and get the heck out.

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• May 24, 2007

  Clarifying working parents’ rights

  The EEOC issued new guidelines yesterday on what might constitute illegal discrimination against workers with family obligations. The agency hopes the guidelines will help people balance family and work life, Pat Loeb reports.

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• May 24, 2007

  Wall Street shouldn’t celebrate

  To look around on Wall Street you'd think we were back in the days before anybody knew what a dot-com bust was. Commentator Ben Stein says investor enthusiasm is misplaced.

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• May 24, 2007

  Wages, war and politics

  The minimum-wage increase has ended up in the Iraq war funding bill. So Democratic lawmakers are in a bind: To raise the minimum wage they'll have to vote for the war. Jeremy Hobson reports.

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• May 24, 2007

  No hedging: $1 million prize for cancer research

  Hedge funds invest in everything from toll bridges to movies. Now, one firm is backing a more worthy cause.

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• May 24, 2007

  This compromise bears fruit

  Syria and Israel's dispute over the Golan Heights has restricted trade for decades. But they do offer an olive branch, or rather, an apple cart. Seasonal demand for apples brings a temporary truce each year. Orly Halpern reports.

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