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  • For many Americans, online banking offers a free and easy way to balance their checkbooks. But beware of hidden traps. USA Today's Sandra Block checks off the list.

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  • Jun 9, 2006

    Space food

    Rachel Louise Snyder reports on a very European initiative to spice up the taste of typically bland space food.

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  • This installment of the Job Files looks at the life of a wedding singer.

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  • The Senate won't hold hearings on the NSA's alleged purchase of millions of domestic calling records from US phone companies. But commentator Austan Goolsbee says consumers are owed an explanation — and more.

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  • Business of sports expert David Carter and host Mark Austin Thomas discuss how the World Cup soccer tournament could spark greater interest in US professional soccer.

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  • American and European drug companies have filed thousands of patents on unorthodox treatments that have been used in India for centuries. Now, India is fighting back to protect its ancient intellectual property. Suzanne Marmion reports.

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  • Jun 8, 2006

    Economic malaise

    The statistics say everything is fine with the American economy. But ask most people on the street, and they'll tell you the economy is only so-so. Commentator and economist Glenn Hubbard thinks he has an answer.

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  • Commentator Robert Reich argues that repealing the estate tax would cost the US Treasury $1 trillion in 10 years — and sap entrepreneurial gumption from the growing ranks of trust-fund Americans.

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  • Northwest flight attendants rejected the airline's pay cut proposal Tuesday, a move that could put a recent agreement with its pilots in jeopardy too. Janet Babin reports.

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  • Writer and commentator Rob Long says that when it comes to Janet Jackson, her wardrobe and indecency, the FCC has too much brawn and not enough brains.

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