Business

How The Senate Farm Bill Would Change Subsidies

3:40pm June 11, 2013

by Tamara Keith

The Senate passed legislation Monday that would do away with direct payments to farmers and instead create an expanded crop insurance program. It's designed to protect farmers from losses, but some say it amounts to a highly subsidized gift to agribusiness.

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Arts
Economy

Post Recession, Architects Return To The Drawing Board

5:39am June 11, 2013

by Wendy Kaufman

While some jobs are coming back in this economy, the market for many architects remains tough. There were nearly 220,000 people working in the field in 2008. Today, more than 25 percent of those jobs are gone.

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Feds Buckle On Emergency Contraception Age Restrictions

5:23am June 11, 2013

The administration had been trying to appeal a judge's ruling to make the morning-after birth control pill available over the counter with no age restrictions. The Justice Department said it would obey the order — sort of. The FDA may soon approve the over-the-counter sale of Plan B One Step without a prescription.

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Coca-Cola advertisements have gone up in tea shops around the former Myanmar capital since the sanctions were lifted.

World News

How To Sell Coke To People Who Have Never Had A Sip

3:05pm June 10, 2013

by Robert Smith

Coca-Cola is returning to Myanmar after 60 years. They'd been kept out of the country by international sanctions. This week they officially opened their new plant outside of Yangon.

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'Internship': A Love Story To Nooglers

12:42pm June 10, 2013

by Steve Henn

The movie, The Internship, tells the story of two 40-year-old, down-on-their-luck watch salesmen, who land an unlikely summer internship at Google. Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson star as the older interns who will have to compete for a full-time gig. Meanwhile, more than a thousand new Google interns — or Nooglers, as they're called — have shown up on the company's campuses across the country.

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Rail Project At Los Angeles Port Draws Environmentalists' Ire

12:21pm June 10, 2013

by Kirk Siegler

In California, activists and environmentalists are seeking to halt construction of a new $500 million rail yard next to the Port of Los Angeles. Activists say the massive project would mean even more pollution for nearby neighborhoods that already have some of the worst air in the country.

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Michael and Katharine Powers don't expect to be able to retire. Here, they are with two of their daughters and Michael's grandfather.

Golden Years Tainted As Retirement Savings Dwindle

8:58am June 10, 2013

by NPR Staff

Forty-seven-year-old Michael Powers says he expects to be working for a long time. He and fellow members of Generation X, ages 38 to 47, are on track to be the first generation to do worse in retirement than their parents. Assuming they retire at all.

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Billionaire Saudi Prince Sues 'Forbes'

7:38am June 10, 2013

Saudi prince and conspicuous billionaire Alwaleed bin Talal is suing the magazine in a London court. In its annual list of the world's wealthiest people, Forbes estimates bin Talal's fortune at $20 billion. But the prince says the magazine publicly short changed him by nearly $10 billion.

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China Experiences Slow Economic Growth

7:36am June 10, 2013

Chinese exports grew by only 1 percent in May — the lowest rate in almost a year. Weak exports to the U.S. and Europe are the main culprits. And imports of the raw materials that fuel China's economy, such as copper and coal are also down.

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Flying machine patent drawing by W.F. Quinby, 1869.

When Patents Attack ... Part Two!

8:29pm June 07, 2013

In 2011, a company called Oasis Research sued more than a dozen tech companies it said were violating its patent for online data backup. Now that the litigation has ended, we get a rare look inside the world of patent lawsuits and find out just how much money was at stake.

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