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  • Last month AOL mistakenly allowed its users' search data to be posted on the Internet. Now three of the people whose searches were revealed are suing the company. Nancy Marshall Genzer reports.

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  • Commentator Chris Elliot says the partial repeal of the ban on carry-on liquids could cause more problems than it solves.

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  • Commentator and humorist Sandra Tsing Loh argues that the essence of big-box shopping is community-building of a different stripe.

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  • Working Mother Magazine has released its annual list of the top 100 companies for working moms. As Nancy Marshall Genzer reports, the winners offer everything from free breast pumps to flex time.

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  • Some banks are starting to offer higher returns on your interest-bearing checking account. Kai looks at what you need to know.

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  • Sep 23, 2006

    Buzzword: IMF

    Life is hard enough without having to decipher everything. Each week, Marketplace Money brings you a word or a phrase that has bubbled to the top of the news. For instance, IMF. You hear it, you see it, but do you really know it?

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  • Fake iPods have reportedly been spotted in Asia, in Europe, and now in North America. But Jordana Gustafson reports.

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  • Commentator and business historian John Steele Gordon tells the story of how one man's attempt to corner the gold market left New York's financial district in utter chaos. Could it happen again?

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  • San Diego County's government pension fund lost an estimated $45 million to Amaranth's bad investments. Andrew Phelps reports.

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  • France is bucking Europe's trend of declining birthrates by providing benefits such as guaranteed parental leave and large childcare subsidies. Eleanor Beardsley has the story.

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