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  • One of the most common images of this week's hurricane, power-sharing: People huddling with their phones and laptops plugged into power strips set up in bank foyers, coffee shops, or dangled helpfully out windows.

  • The New York City Marathon will go off as scheduled Sunday morning as the city still deals with clean up, massive power outages, and limited transit services.

  • Superstorm Sandy has many companies rethinking flexible scheduling plans.

  • People shop for bottled water at a supermarket in the Rockaway Beach neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City.
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    Professor Dan Ariely discusses why there's an altruistic feeling following a crisis and what happens when everyone is going after a few limited resources.

  • New York is boosting food deliveries to elderly residents stuck in powerless high-rise buildings. Nonprofits are scrambling to help too.

  • But is the move by the rival phone companies more about business than helping out?

  • In Atlantic City on the New Jersey shore, the casinos remain closed and are estimated to be losing $5 million a day. Residents are still coping with the aftermath of the storm — digging out, rebuilding, and waiting to get back online.

  • All the state governments in the path of Sandy say they’re going to rebuild infrastructure. In this age of budget austerity, where will the money come from?

  • AT&T and T-Mobile say they have temporarily jury-rigged their network in parts of the Northeast so that customers who can't reach their normal cellphone connection can use the rival's tower without extra charge.

  • It's been three days since Sandy hit New York City and as residents wake up this morning, the city is still staggering back to normal.

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