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Frustration and Despair as Job Search Drags On (Jul-17, 21:01 EDT )-- An estimated 2.1 million are waiting for an end to a Senate impasse over whether to extend jobless benefits.
With Well Shut for Two Days, BP Sees No Signs of Damage (Jul-17, 20:48 EDT )-- Officials extended a test of BP’s blown-out well for an additional 24 hours, after two days of testing showed no signs of damage in the 13,000-foot-deep hole in the Gulf of Mexico.
Insurers Push Plans That Limit Health Choices (Jul-17, 20:08 EDT )-- As the White House begins to enact the new national health care law, the biggest insurers are promoting cheaper plans with reduced premiums that allow fewer doctors and hospitals.
Eduardo Sánchez Junco, Founder of Fawning Magazine, Is Dead at 67 (Jul-17, 19:57 EDT )-- Mr. Junco, Hello magazine’s founder and publisher, presided over his family’s multimillion-dollar publishing empire.
City Critic: Hoboken, N.J., Sets Up Low-Cost Car-Sharing Program (Jul-17, 19:20 EDT )-- City officials hope convenient hourly rentals will lead many residents to give up their own cars, helping to ease traffic and parking problems.
As Older Users Join Facebook, Network Grapples With Death (Jul-17, 19:11 EDT )-- The world’s biggest social network has had trouble figuring out when one of its 500 million users has died.
The Search: How to Rebound From a Wrong Career Choice (Jul-17, 16:02 EDT )-- Many young people can be steered into careers and discover much later that the choice was wrong.
The Boss: Still Minding the Mill (Jul-17, 15:58 EDT )-- Bob Moore, founder and chief executive of Bob’s Red Mill Natural Foods in Milwaukie, Ore.
Letters: 104 Days of Waiting (Jul-17, 15:50 EDT )-- Re “Factory Finesse, at the Hospital†(July 11), which described how hospitals were using new efficiency techniques.
Letters: Junk Food, Junk Media (Jul-17, 15:49 EDT )-- Re “Educational Hope vs. Teenage Reality†(Digital Domain, July 11), which described how studies showed a decline in academic performance after students in low-income households received a computer in the home:
Economic View: What Germany Has Learned About Debt (Jul-17, 15:47 EDT )-- In Berlin, long-term fiscal caution may be a result of its 20th-century history â€" which taught that the government can’t rely on the future to pay its bills.
Strategies: Head for the Hills? No Way, Says Jeremy J. Siegel (Jul-17, 15:44 EDT )-- Jeremy J. Siegel of the Wharton School says that “it’s exactly times like this†that investors should be poised to reap stock-market gains.
Off the Shelf: ‘The Climate War’: Going to the Mat on Global Warming (Jul-17, 15:32 EDT )-- “The Climate War,†by Eric Pooley, details the economic and political aspects of the global-warming debate.
Cap Will Help Determine What's Going On Inside Well (Jul-17, 14:00 EDT )-- While engineers test the pressure of the cap fitted to stop the hemorrhaging of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, questions still linger about what will happen next. Host Guy Raz speaks with NPR's Richard Harris about possible next steps.
BP To Continue Monitoring Cap For Another 24 Hours (Jul-17, 09:19 EDT )-- The oil company was initially given 48 hours to see whether its latest effort to stop the leak into the Gulf of Mexico was working. The company said there are no signs of new leaks and that oil was being kept out of the water, but Coast Guard Adm. Thad...
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