| AP Investigation: Banks sought foreign workers
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| Publication Date: 1 February 2009 |
 AP - Major U.S. banks sought government permission to bring thousands of foreign workers into the country for high-paying jobs even as the system was melting down last year and Americans were getting laid off, according to an Associated Press review of visa applications.
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| In Japan, you are what your blood type is
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| Publication Date: 1 February 2009 |
| AP - In Japan, "What's your type?" is much more than small talk; it can be a paramount question in everything from matchmaking to getting a job. |
| Old Damascus struggles to cope in the new Syria
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| Publication Date: 1 February 2009 |
| AP - Scenes from the old, walled city of Damascus: A carpet dealer skilled at multilingual bargaining is cajoling a tourist into his showroom. A rhythmic tap-tap-tap resonates from a doorway as an artisan hammers silver strips into a richly decorated brass tray. A Syrian woman does the day's shopping, visiting one stall for meat, another for olives, a third for flat bread. |
| Guardsmen cut through fallen trees in ice-caked KY
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| Publication Date: 1 February 2009 |
 AP - National Guard troops swinging chain saws made their way into isolated Kentucky communities Sunday to check on residents walloped by a winter storm that Gov. Steve Beshear called the biggest natural disaster ever to hit the state.
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| Will family's 4th generation at GM be its last?
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| Publication Date: 1 February 2009 |
 AP - As a 10-year-old, Rollin Green was awestruck when he saw the line of hulking orange-and-silver robotic arms swinging with rhythmic precision during his first visit to an auto plant. But something impressed him even more:
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