Search for three, including NFL players, continues

Rescuers seeking three missing boaters, including two NFL players, continued their search through the night and into early Tuesday off Florida’s Gulf Coast. With 2,000 square miles of water to search, the hope was the three were still alive despite having been dumped into the sea during a storm

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Why Are Large Companies Losing More Jobs Than Small Ones?

If it feels like big companies are doing more than their fair share of letting employees go these days, that’s not just because mass layoffs at blue chip firms are the ones that make headlines. New research suggests that in times of recession, large employers disproportionately lose workers, while small companies, as a group, fare better

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FDIC Reports That Bank Failures Are Rising

Sheila Bair, head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation , is working hard to reassure everyone that her banks, all 8,305 of them, are safe. Repeating her familiar mantra Wednesday on the CBS Morning Show, Bair said of FDIC-protected accounts, “Nobody’s ever lost a penny of insured deposits.” Bair had good reason to be out on the stump

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Study: Doodling Helps You Pay Attention

A lot of people hate doodlers, those who idly scribble during meetings . Most people also hate that other closely related species: the fidgeter, who spins pens or re-orders papers or plays with his phone during meetings. We doodlers, fidgeters and whisperers always get the same jokey, passive-aggressive line from the authority figure at the front of the room: “I’m sorry, are we bothering you?” How droll

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Japan’s industrial production falls steeply

Japan’s industrial production in January dropped 10 percent from the previous month, a decline for the fourth straight month, the government said. Harlyn Geronimo has sued Yale and the society — the Order of Skull and Bones — to try to recover the remains. “I think what would be important is that the remains of Geronimo be with his ancestors,” he said.

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