Thursday, May 6, 2004 The Marketplace Morning Report with Kai Ryssdal and Tess Vigeland is a series of seven 9-minute business news modules airing weekdays. This timely report delivers a global business newscast and a hard-hitting feature report. Visit the archive to browse previous stories. Note: Each of the broadcasts contains some of the newscast items below and one of the features. Since only a few radio markets get all seven broadcasts, we've made them available below.

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Newscast Stories From Washington: The national Do-Not-Call list has been in effect since last fall. Federal regulators have just filed their first lawsuit for violating the list. They say a credit counseling group just kept calling anyway. From New York: The cost of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan is growing. Congress is expected to give swift approval to President Bush's request for an additional $25 billion for those military operations. From Los Angeles: Conventional wisdom is, ours is a litigious society. But according to a new study, our interest in bringing a personal injury lawsuit changes across demographic groups. From New York: Wall Street watchers say New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer plans to sue to reclaim some of the compensation of former New York Stock Exchange chairman Dick Grasso. Grasso's made it clear he has no intention of handing over the cash voluntarily. From Montgomery, Alabama: The chief of CVS drug stores wants the government to temporarily legalize importing prescription drugs from places like Canada. But he's meeting resistance from some pharmacy groups. From Beijing: This year's grain harvest will increase to a record level... but that's still 60 million tons short of world demand. That drop has hit especially hard in China. And now, for the first time, the Chinese government plans to subsidize grain farmers. From Washington: New findings out today on women's health show many states aren't living up to the federal government's health care goals. The authors of the study say this could wind up costing states more in the long run. From London: Crisis meetings are underway in Italy to save the country's state-controlled airline, Air Italia from collapse. Features Personal Finance This Week - Corporate Earnings Personal finance expert Chris Farrell, Economics Editor for our sister program Sound Money, talks finance with host Kai Ryssdal. This week -- corporate earnings.

Costly College Coaching You might think it would be easy to find out how much money the coach of your local college football team makes. But in many states, that's not the case. Take Maryland for instance. People there had to go to the state's highest court to find out the salaries of coaches at the University of Maryland. We asked Marketplace Sports commentator Andrew Zimbalist to tell us the story, and what it means for the fans.

Worker Visa Woes - Part 1 There's a shortage that has thousands of highly skilled and educated foreign workers in the U.S in a bind. The government has run out of professional, specialty-worker visas just 5 months into the fiscal year. Marketplace's Hillary Wicai reports in the first of a two part series on how the visa shortage affects American business.