All Stories from July 4, 2011 (Change date)
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Cuba tries to drag shadow economy into the lightJul 04, 2011 6:00 am - HAVANA — Want some paprika-infused chorizo sausage? How about a bit of buffalo mozzarella? Or maybe you just need more cooking oil this month, or a homemade soft drink y...
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Florida businesses to feel pain of shuttle’s endJul 04, 2011 6:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Workers at the Kennedy Space Center always knew the end of the shuttle program would bring hard times to Florida’s Space Coast. They just couldn’t...
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Overseas-profit tax cut may pack punchJul 04, 2011 6:00 am - Giving companies a tax break on transfers of overseas profits may pack a bigger economic punch than bond buying by the Federal Reserve, according to Thomas J. Lee, JPMor...
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Cash-starved performers hit Vegas streets for tipsJul 04, 2011 6:00 am - LAS VEGAS — The Las Vegas Strip is teeming with Spidermen, Elmos and Elvis Presleys of all waistlines. Nevada’s woeful economy has inspired dozens of jobless and underem...
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Celebrity real estate: Guy Fieri’s home was a fixer-upperJul 04, 2011 6:00 am - NEW YORK — Celebrity chef Guy Fieri lives in his dream home. But he says the place was a dump when he bought it. Fieri, who hosts the NBC game show “Minute To Win It” an...
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Celebrity real estate: Big-leaguer crashed at Mom’sJul 04, 2011 6:00 am - NEW YORK — Major League Baseball players don’t usually live with their moms. But when Eric Byrnes was first called up by the Oakland Athletics, he figured it’d be a sma...
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Suburban landscape goes gray as population agesJul 04, 2011 6:00 am - The nation’s suburbs are home to a rapidly growing number of older people who are changing the image and priorities of a suburbia formed around the needs of young famili...
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Self-promotion disguised as sacrificeJul 04, 2011 3:00 am - In retelling last week's revelation that Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas is an illegal immigrant, civil rights metaphors have been trotted out to d...
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We’ll reap benefits of swipe fee reformJul 04, 2011 3:00 am - I wanted to respond and set the record straight about swipe fee reform in Washington raised on these pages by the Heartland Institute. These are the fees credit and deb...
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Yes, let government control medical costsJul 04, 2011 3:00 am - “Centralizers,” a conservative wrote disapprovingly in Reason magazine, “say that the responsibility for making tough decisions about how to keep health care costs under...