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• Feb 14, 2006

  Alum dating

  Some colleges are trying to help alums with their love lives. But as Brett Neely reports, the effort is also about hooking up the colleges with new funding sources.

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• Feb 14, 2006

  Iraq contractor fraud trial

  Civil proceedings begin today for a US military contractor charged with bilking the US and Iraqi governments. Eric Niiler reports.

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• Feb 13, 2006

  Be mine

  There's one day left before St. Valentine's Day, and this year, consumers are expected to spend more on their sweethearts than ever before. As Curt Nickisch reports, some non-traditional retail segments are looking to cash in.

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• Feb 10, 2006

  A cable TV cafeteria

  The FCC says giving viewers a choice of what channels to include in their cable TV packages is cheaper than provider-selected bundles. Eric Niiler has more.

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• Feb 7, 2006

  Kicking the oil habit

  Commentator Vijay Vaitheeswaran argues that President Bush's call to end America's addiction to oil is a good start… but much more needs to be done.

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• Feb 7, 2006

  Lawmakers take up the budget

  Today, President Bush's budget proposal lands in Congress, where both the House and Senate have scheduled committee hearings to consider it. Eric Niiler has more on how the debate over the President's spending priorities is shaping up.

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• Feb 6, 2006

  The Sloan Sessions: the return of 30-year bonds

  Later this week, the federal government will sell 30-year treasury bonds for the first time since 2001.Back then, the U.S. had a budget surplus, and had the money to pay off some of its $8 trillion dollar debt.But now, the deficit is mounting and the money's not there. Newsweek's Alan Sloan looks into whether investors are clamoring to buy the long bond.

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• Feb 6, 2006

  "Company" author Max Barry

  Max Barry got quite a shock when he went to work in sales at Hewlett Packard after college. He found the business world daunting… and inspirational. He's just written the ultimate satire of life in the corporation. It's called "Company", and it begins with the theft of a donut.

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• Feb 3, 2006

  Hey – where are all the flying cars?

  So we're six years into the 21st Century. Shouldn't we all be tooling around in flying cars? Aries Keck takes a look at the state of this Jetsonian technology.

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• Feb 3, 2006

  The Job Files: Football Referee

  This installment of The Job Files goes out onto the gridiron with football referee George Grieger.

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