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  • Hurricane season begins tomorrow. And companies big and small are looking to insure themselves differently than they did before Hurricane Katrina. Cheryl Glaser reports.

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  • Air traffic controllers and the FAA have been at the bargaining table for nine months. Neither side is ready to budge. Eric Niiler takes a look at the showdown.

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  • Commentator Robert Reich says his former college classmate — newly-nominated Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson — needs to do more than sell President Bush's policies to help the economy. He has to reverse them.

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  • Commentator Rudy Maxa warns there's a very good reason not to discard your airplane boarding pass: You won't believe all the information an identity thief could get from that one little piece of paper.

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  • May 31, 2006

    Displaced in Iraq

    The Iraqi government says nearly 15,000 families — about 100,000 people — have been forced out of their homes by factional fighting since the US invasion. From Karbala, Borzou Daragahi reports.

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  • Commentator Marcellus Andrews says the National Spelling Bee should inspire changes to the US educational system that will make America's children competitive in the world economy.

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  • Commentator David Frum argues the US doesn't need a strong manufacturing sector to remain the dominant player in the world economy.

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  • Wounded soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan often receive the most technologically-advanced computerized prosthetics available. Not so for civilians in need of similar care. Ann Heppermann reports.

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  • The issue of immigration is still rolling around in the American dialogue. Humorist and commentator Tim Bedore has a solution: build a fence. But not just on our border with Mexico. He's taking on Canada too.

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  • The airplanes are sure to be crowded on this holiday weekend. Commentator J.D. Samant says that what you bring on the plane to eat is more than just a meal, it's a status symbol.

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