Saturday, March 14, 2009

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Brazil's Lula: A Bridge for Obama to Latin America's Left?

By TIM PADGETT

The Brazilian president who visits the White House on Saturday is the best candidate to help Washington repair relations with a continent that has turned away from the U.S.

Wal-Mart vs. Target: During the Recession, It's No Contest

By SEAN GREGORY

Discount T-shirts are fine, but Target is discovering that recession ravaged shoppers want meat and potatoes—and Walmart owns that aisle

Just Saying No: Why Would a Governor Spurn Stimulus Money?

By TIM PADGETT

Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina is leading the stubborn pack of conservatives who are threatening to turn down federal help

Cities, Once Immune, Now Sufferng From the Recession

By BARBARA KIVIAT

Towns in Wyoming, West Virginia, North Dakota and Arkansas skipped the recession — until now

Albuquerque's Mysterious Mass Grave

By NANCY HARBERT / ALBUQUERQUE

After a dog finds a bone, police dig up what was planned to be a housing development to find 13 bodies. Was this a serial killer at work?

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"It's now really just a word — hollow and evoking only memories."
PRINCE WILLIAM,
at a reception for the Child Bereavement Charity, describing what the word mummy means to him since the death of his mother Princess Diana in 1997. Mothering Sunday, the European equivalent of Mother's Day, will be celebrated on March 22
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Sao Paulo

What Downturn? Business Booms in Brazil's Shanties

By Andrew Downie

Small-time entrepreneurs who retail the things poorer Brazilians can't do without — food and cosmetics — are showing remarkable resilience

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