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Monday morning, October 10, 2005
Rescue operations continued today after a powerful earthquake jolted Pakistan and South Asia Saturday. Miranda Kennedy reports.
Newsweek Wall Street Editor Allan Sloan tells host Scott Jagow that the market is skittish about the threat of inflation, whether that fear is founded or not.
Unlike public institutions of higher learn, private colleges and universities damaged by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita are not eligible for FEMA reconstruction aid. Sarah Gardner reports.
Rafat Ali, editor of Paidcontent.org talks with host Lisa Napoli about the recent spate of media companies buying up Internet properties.
Last year's defense-department sponsored DARPA race saw no robots cross the finish line. This time around, five did. Marketplace's Brett Neely reports. Plus web extra: robot slideshow.
US Treasure Secretary John Snow is in Asia this week. Among the top items on his agenda: currency and trade issues. Alisa Roth reports.
Germany is about to install Angela Merkel as the country's first female chancellor. Stephen Beard reports from the European Desk in London.
The individual work of Thomas Schelling and Robert Aumann has helped inform trade negotiations in the global market, the Nobel committee said. Marketplace's Scott Tong reports.
Katrina and Rita may not have had the broad chilling effect they were expected to have on third-quarter earnings, which are due out this week. Ashely Milne-Tyte reports.
Government researchers launch a hearing today to look at just how dangerous pthalates, found in many plastics, may be. As Helen Palmer reports, the chemical industry has a lot at stake.
As the price of gold increases, so do pressures to mine more of it. These days, though, many gold deposits are on lands occupied by indigenous Americans. Rachel Dornhelm reports.
Insurance company Lincoln National is in talks to purchase life insurer Jefferson-Pilot. After the merger the company would be worth about $16 billion.
No turkeys from Turkey, says the European Union. It will prohibit all bird and feather imports from Turkey, starting today, after Turkey confirmed reports of a deadly bird flu within its borders.
Turkish authorities say the European move is an overreaction — and they say the outbreak in their country is less dangerous than the one that has killed 65 people in Asia. The EU says it will know more on Wednesday, but doesn't want to take any chances.
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