All Stories from July 24, 2011 (Change date)
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Dying town invests in children to save itselfJul 24, 2011 6:00 am - SPARKMAN, Ark. — The signs of decline are everywhere in this tiny timber town. Most of the gas stations are abandoned metal skeletons left to rust under the Arkansas sun...
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Consumer-finance watchdog agency launchesJul 24, 2011 6:00 am - But it’s missing key powers it was supposed to have
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With default looming, what investors should do nowJul 24, 2011 6:00 am - How do you prepare for a financial cataclysm that may not happen? That’s the question facing investors as an Aug. 2 deadline approaches for Washington to raise the gover...
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Mortgage ‘robo-signing’ still goes onJul 24, 2011 6:00 am - Mortgage industry employees are still signing documents they haven’t read and using fake signatures more than eight months after big banks and mortgage companies promise...
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A decade later, firefighters bring 9/11 homeJul 24, 2011 6:00 am - ON THE ROAD WITH ARTIFACT H-0035A — Back home, where Rick Sluder is the police chief of a village of 3,000 surrounded by corn and soybean fields, traffic wouldn’t be an ...
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A glimpse into daily life in North KoreaJul 24, 2011 6:00 am - EDITOR’S NOTE — Jean H. Lee, The Associated Press bureau chief in Seoul, and David Guttenfelder, AP’s chief Asia photographer, have made numerous reporting trips to Nort...
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Economic gaps widening in affluent IsraelJul 24, 2011 6:00 am - JERUSALEM — First came a revolt over cheese that forced Israel’s largest dairy companies to lower their prices. Now, with consumer rage mounting over what is widely seen...
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An angel rises from Trade Center steelJul 24, 2011 6:00 am - For years, most of Lei Hennessy-Owen’s work as a sculptor was making whimsical figures of animals and mermaids, generally as garden centerpieces. Then, in 1999, she hear...
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Retirement investors await debt ceiling solutionJul 24, 2011 6:00 am - DES MOINES, Iowa — They have one eye on Washington and the other on Wall Street. Investors are paying close attention because the contentious debate in Congress could ha...
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In Israel, rich and famous flock to wonder rabbiJul 24, 2011 6:00 am - ASHDOD, Israel — A few evenings every month, some of Israel’s wealthiest and most powerful people can be found in a living room in this seaside city, waiting to have a f...