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  • Don't think the "do not disturb" sign on your hotel room will allow you privacy. These days, hotels and retailers have found a new way to keep tabs on what you're doing. Chief Brand strategist, Eli Portnoy, takes Kai inside the new frontier of customer data collection.

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  • There comes a time when parents can't avoid the topic anymore. Kids, we're rich. Marketplace's Sean Cole reports on how wealthy families handle the "money talk."

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  • Ever get together with friends, have a glass of wine and beat the pants off the S&P 500? If you're an active member of an investment club and you're not shy, then you and your club members might be perfect for a new segment on Marketplace Money.

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  • Daily Variety editor Stuart Levine and host Mark Austin Thomas discuss the unexpected popularity of Al Gore's global warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, and the unprecedented 7-day opening "weekend" for Superman.

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  • Retailers are trying to boost Father's Day sales this year with marketing gimmicks that among things link dad's special day to Christmas. Charla Bear explains.

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  • Jun 16, 2006

    Kick out the kids

    Commentator and bookstore clerk Moira Manion has two words for the kids running roughshod down store aisles: Get out.

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  • Microsoft Corp. co-founder and chairman Bill Gates is relinquishing daily duties in 2008 to work more closely with his foundation.

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  • Gas is cheap in Iraq. But if you are driving in that war-torn country, gas is about the only thing that's cheap. Ben Gilbert reports from Baghdad.

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  • Commercial whaling has been banned for 20 years, but Japan, Norway and Iceland mostly ignore the ban. And this year, they might even have enough votes to turn the tides their way when the International Whaling Commission meets. Alex Cohen reports.

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  • Jun 15, 2006

    Hard times for UAW

    The United Auto Workers' ranks have shrunk by more than half in 25 years. But, says commentator Robert Reich, there are still plenty of jobs for American auto workers — it's the quality of jobs that's changed.

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