Segments From This Episode

• A cake you eat just one time a year

  

  Mooncakes are an Asian delicacy celebrating family, the harvest and the full moon.

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• For chimps no longer needed for research, smoothies and sanctuary

  by Marketplace Contributor

  

  When the National Institutes of Health quit funding biomedical testing on chimpanzees last year, that put most research chimps out of work.

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• Another school year, another year of teacher shortages

  by Reema Khrais

  

  Teacher shortages are significant in special education, math and science.

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• Brazil says privatization will grow a stagnant economy

  by Andy Uhler

  

  Brazil’s economy is not in good shape, and it hopes private firms can help fix it.

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• A month-to-month drop in U.S. retail sales

  by David Brancaccio

  A dip in retail sales, monitoring early prostate cancer, and helping retired chimps.

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