1. Big-Screen Memories Of A New York Adventure 1 hour ago   permalink

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It was 1939, the year of the New York World's Fair, Germany's invasion of Poland, and the publication of Steinbeck's classic The Grapes of Wrath . It's also the year two 18-year-old girls from Denver took a train to the East Coast for an adventure that inspired a Hollywood musical.

2. 5 Stocks You Should Avoid Right Now 4 hours ago   permalink

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Back in March, we profiled five unbelievably solid stocks -- companies that have been paying uninterrupted dividends to shareholders for more than 45 years. That consistency is incredible.

3. 5 Strong Stocks for Your IRA 4 hours ago   permalink

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Tax-deferred accounts such as traditional and Roth IRAs are ideal places for income-generating investments such as dividend-paying stocks and bonds. Why? Rather than pay taxes annually on dividends and interest received, IRAs allow your nest egg to grow tax-free, entirely avoiding those annual charges that can put a damper on your retirement funds'

4. Obama dinner crashers peddling interview 11 hours ago   permalink

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Michaele and Tareq Salahi, right, arrive at a State Dinner hosted by President Barack Obama for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the White House in Washington.

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LARRY MARGASAK / Salon State dinner crashers met Obama   —  After the Secret Service insisted that President Barack Obama was never endangered by a security breach that allowed a couple to crash his first state dinner, the White House has released a photo showing that not only did the pair get close to Obama, they actually shook hands and talked to him.

5. Indebted Dubai World rejected asset sale 12 hours ago   permalink

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Dubai World "totally rejected" the possibility of selling off some of its top performing assets in the months before the heavily indebted conglomerate turned to creditors with a plea to defer payments on some of the $60 billion it owes, a newspaper reported Sunday.

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NPR Programs Dubai Economic Crisis Hits The World   —  Is Dubai too big too fail? Earlier this week, officials in the Gulf state announced they needed more time to repay $60 billion in money borrowed to build lavish hotels, manmade islands and the world's tallest skyscraper. World markets slumped because of the news. Economist Simon Johnson, former chief economist for the International Monetary Fund, ...

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Schoolteacher Kinzi Blair makes only $46,000 a year, but she has what many would consider a “Cadillac” health plan, now targeted for a big tax increase by health reformers.

7. France Debates Its Identity, but Some Ask Why 12 hours ago   permalink

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PARIS -- France, a nation endlessly fascinated with itself since at least as far back as the Gauls, is again engaged in a bizarre and deeply political debate over its identity.

8. DJ Spooky: An Antarctic Expedition In Sound 14 hours ago   permalink

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DJ culture has always been fascinated with the concept of cool. But musician and artist Paul Miller — aka DJ Spooky — decided to get to the core of the phenomenon. His new multimedia project is structured around his sound recordings from the icy continent.

9. In New Ad, Chair Floats To Space 22 hours ago   permalink

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A new TV ad features an unassuming orange armchair making a trip to the edge of space. The video of the chair's ascent while tethered to a balloon has gone viral, popping up in e-mail inboxes around the world. Andy Amadeo, the director of the spot, discusses the ad.

10. Better Buy: MasterCard or American Express? 1 day ago   permalink

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In a new Motley Fool series, we pit two stocks against each other on five criteria to determine the better buy. Today's matchup is MasterCard (NYSE: MA) vs. American Express (NYSE: AXP). Using five short-of-scientific-but-carefully chosen criteria, let's determine which is the better buy according to the numbers: