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• Things to enrage the unemployed
  From the blog Layoff Moveon, this post on Top Ten Things That Enrage. So you’re cruising through life at a comfortable speed. Wham, bam. your pink slip is served. Suddenly there are things in life which you never thought would piss you off. #1 PEOPLE WHO ASK HOW I’M DOING in case you’re wondering, “not well” is the [...] […]
• The 12 Months of Default
  From the blog of You Walk Away, a company that helps homeowners “strategically default” and walk away from their property (and mortgages) when they have negative equity. […]
• Friday photo gallery
  Click on an image to see it full size. More photos here […]
• EconTalk – Libertarian perspectives
  Some of you have no doubt seen the "Fear the Boom and Bust" video featuring the rap stylings of economists John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich von Hayek, two economists with diametrically opposed viewpoints. To put the dispute in its most simplistic terms, Keynes thought government intervention was the only way out of economic downturns, and Hayek... […]

PBS The Newshour

• From Film to Sports, a Winning Week for Women
  With UConn's women's basketball team breaking a major record and Kathryn Bigelow's Oscars, it has been a winning week for women. Judy Woodruff reports on another remarkable woman who is gaining ground on the football field. […]
• Shields, Brooks: Presidency 'At Risk' in Outcome of Health Reform Effort
  Columnists Mark Shields and David Brooks sort through the top political stories of the past week, including the rift between the White House and the Supreme Court over President Obama's State of the Union and the ongoing negotiations to pass health care. […]
• Evaluating and Preventing a Massive Financial Crisis
  As part of his continuing series of reports making sense of business and the economy, Paul Solman talks to MIT finance professor Andrew Lo about why he's asking Congress to keep investigating the financial crisis. […]
• Middle East Tensions Rise over Planned Settlements
  Israel sealed off the West Bank over fears that its plans to authorize more housing settlements would ignite violence, just as Vice President Joe Biden returned home from a visit meant to kick-start peace talks. Ray Suarez reports […]
• News Wrap: 9/11 Rescue Workers Offered Settlement
  In other news Friday, thousands of emergency personnel who suffered health problems because of their work following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks are considering a settlement offer, and the president has delayed his Asia trip to urge lawmakers to finalize health reform legislation. […]
• Boost in Retail Sales Hints at Economic Recovery
  Retail sales increased in February, despite major snowstorms in the eastern United States and consistently high unemployment. Judy Woodruff talks to an economist about whether recovery could soon follow. […]

PBS Frontline

• Next on FRONTLINE: Close to Home
• The Suicide Tourist
• Behind Taliban Lines
• Flying Cheap

PRI’s The World

• PRI's The World - March 12, 2010
• PRI's The World - March 11, 2010

WNET: Worldfocus

• Creeping seas threaten tiny island chain of Maldives
• Week in Review: Middle East peace process
• Maldivian leader sees peril and promise in country’s future
• Full Show: March 12, 2010

BBC News

• Cut and run?
  Bombed out and banned: Gaza's male hairdressers […]
• Yes, we Kenco
  New US movement tells politicians to smell the coffee […]
• Knife crime plans 'may cost £80m'
  Proposals for mandatory jail terms for knife carriers could cost up to £80m a year, figures obtained by the Lib Dems suggest. […]
• Bloodshed blights Acapulco resort
  Thirteen people die, four of whom are beheaded, in drug-related violence at the Mexican beach resort of Acapulco. […]
• Panic in Georgia as bogus TV report says Russia has invaded
  Panic is sparked in Georgia after a bogus TV news report says Russian tanks have invaded and the country's president was dead. […]
• Many killed in Afghan bomb blasts
  At least 30 people have been killed in a series of suspected suicide bombings in the Afghan city of Kandahar, officials say. […]

PBS NOVA Science NOW

• NOVA scienceNOW: Mammoth Mystery
• NOVA scienceNOW: Brain Trauma

OPB Think Out Loud

• Unemployment: Regional Ripples
• Sam Scandal