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  • The third-quarter earnings season begins in earnest today. Nancy Marshall Genzer looks at who will be grabbing the headlines.

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  • The trucking industry is in the middle of its worst labor shortage ever. As companies hone their recruiting efforts, they're focusing on one group of potential truckers: Baby Boomers. Martha Woodroof tells us it could be a match made in economic heaven.

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  • Small businesses dominate Lebanon's economy. Cutthroat competition was already the rule, but after war devastated the country's peak tourism season, the struggle to survive has become desperate. Ben Gilbert reports.

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  • Finders keepers, right? That's the rule. Or does it change when you receive a little extra cash . . . by mistake? Sally Herships shares her story.

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  • Domestic violence isn't just a problem at home. It also costs billions of dollars in the workplace. Some companies are responding. From the Work and Family desk, Apryl Lundsten reports.

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  • The indoor shopping mall celebrates its 50th anniversary today. Toni Randoph takes a look at the first indoor mall and what's happened to those shopping centers since the first one opened in Minneapolis.

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  • Oct 6, 2006

    Lava town

    The bustling town of Goma, Congo was devastated several years ago when a volcano erupted and engulfed the town in lava. But residents there have found a silver lining, Suzanne Marmion reports.

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  • The cost of producing one season of a TV show is now on par with the price of making a movie. Given the slim chances of a show succeeding, is it money well spent? Host Mark Austin Thomas puts the question to Daily Variety's Michael Speier.

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  • Despite worries that Americans would shut their wallets due to gas prices and a softening economy, the news out of the retail sector has been surprisingly positive. But can the trend last? Nancy Marshall Genzer reports.

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  • EADS admitted today that it's fallen a decade behind archrival Boeing and that projects beyond the A380 might also face delays and cost cuts. Commentator John Gapper says sometimes big money can go to your head.

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