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MLB Opening Day: Looking back at 100 years of baseball history
To get a sense of the historic arc Major League Baseball has taken over just the past 100 years, hop on our time machine and review some of its key news and developments at 10-year intervals, beginning in 1912.
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Top 10 cities where house prices are rising
House prices continue to fall nationwide, but here and there they’ve begun to turn up as Americans return to the housing market. Which 10 metropolitan areas have seen the biggest increase in the past year? The winners, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR), include a state capital, a furniture-making center, and a resort that was once America’s foreclosure capital. Can you guess who they are?
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Clint Eastwood Chrysler Super bowl commercial: Facebook fans respond
If you didn’t see it aired on TV during halftime of the Super bowl Sunday, you’ve likely heard about it by now: The Clint Eastwood Chrysler commercial. Amid all the debate on the ad's perceived political stance, we took this question to our Facebook fans: After watching this video, do you think Chrysler came out with a pro-Obama commercial, or a patriotic commercial? We’ve culled their 127 comments and grouped the best here.
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Clint Eastwood in Top 6 Super Bowl 2012 car commercials (+video)
Sure, the New York Giants won the 2012 Super Bowl. But who won the battle of the Super Bowl car commercials? NBC says advertisers paid an average of $3.5 million for a 30-second spot in this year's Super Bowl. Last year, Volkswagon was the biggest crowd pleaser with their Darth Vader "The Force" ad which got millions of views online before it debuted on TV. This year, the early favorite was Ferris Bueller (aka Matthew Broderick) hawking a Honda. But Chrysler's Halftime in America ad, starring Clint Eastwood, is what everyone is talking about now. Here's one viewer's take on the Top 6 Super Bowl car commercials for 2012. Which is your favorite?
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How home prices are faring in six 2012 swing states
Home prices are recovering in some regions, fluctuating in others, and stuck in the basement in still others. How they are faring may yet be an important factor in the 2012 presidential election. Here's how home prices in metro areas in six swing states compare with those at the housing market's peak in 2006.
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Looking back: The Monitor's coverage of 9/11
A selected archive of The Monitor's coverage of 9/11 and beyond.
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Labor Day struggle for unions and Obama
Labor Day marks a rough year for President Obama and the labor union movement that had high hopes for him. Unemployment remains high, and unions are under fire from political conservatives.
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Ghetto Cowboy
A heartwarming story about inner-city kids who bond with a band of forgotten race horses.
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Compact cars: More are on the way
Compact cars will be built in greater numbers this year as automakers cater to penny-pinching consumers. Companies also hope to eat into sales of Toyota, Honda compact cars.
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AFL-CIO chief: History will judge Obama if he 'nibbles' at jobs crisis (video)
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said Thursday that if President Obama’s jobs speech after Labor Day consists of 'nibbling around the edge' of the issue, 'history will judge him.'
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Khapra beetle: Feared pest intercepted at airport
Khapra beetle is discovered in rice shipment from India. US interceptions of khapra beetle are up dramatically this year.
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Congress, spooked by summer town halls, tries jobs fairs instead
The health-care reform protests of 2009 have made members of Congress worried about holding traditional summer town halls. As an alternative, some are holding jobs fairs.
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Horizons
Deus Ex: Human Revolution review roundup
Deus Ex: Human Revolution arrives on consoles and PCs this week. And the early reviews are very, very good.
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Grizzly encounters and other reasons for federal regulations
My Alaska encounters with fly fishing and grizzly bears reveal how much America benefits from federal regulations. Without them, this pristine wilderness would likely not exist, and neither would many protections for consumers and workers.
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Missing blimp found in Ohio woman's backyard
Missing blimp turns up next to the house of an Ohio woman Sunday. The missing blimp got free from its moorings in Columbus, Ohio earlier that day.
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Chapter & Verse
Philip Levine: the “proletariat poet”
Philip Levine, a former Detroit factory worker and one of the most highly rated writers of his generation, is the new US Poet Laureate.
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Unemployment rate giving you the blues? Try these top five cities for jobs.
Here are five large metro areas with the lowest unemployment rates and where unemployment is down at least half a percentage point over last year:
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Editor's Blog
A long, hard path to renewal
In business, housing, and many other parts of the economy, 'creative destruction' rules. Destruction is the ugly part. But even in places as hard-hit as Detroit, the creative is now stirring.
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Fuel economy: Big leap for efficiency, not hybrids
Fuel economy is headed to an average 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025. But higher fuel economy standards won't force an end to the gasoline engine.
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In Pictures: Urban gardens
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The Circle Bastiat
Banks bulldoze houses, despite millions being homeless
Bank of America and others plan to raze repossessed, vacant homes in some cities. Is demolition really an ethical solution?
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Detroit survival plan would cut services to some residents, but not all
It's part of an effort to recast Detroit, which lost a quarter of its population last decade. Some experts say entire swaths of the city should be shut down, but the plan does not go that far.
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Counteracting urban blight
A Christian Science perspective.
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Recovering US job market is leaving black men behind
The unemployment rate for black men stands at 17 percent, more than double that of white men. An education gap, criminal records, and racial bias all contribute to problems in the job market, experts say. What type of intervention would help?
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Work at home: Take pay cut. Come out ahead.
To be able to work at home a few days a week, some employees agree to a pay cut. Work at home for half the time and you could save as much as $6,800 a year.
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Chapter & Verse
Daniel Okrent, author of "Last Call," talks about Prohibition
Daniel Okrent, author of "Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition," talks about the booze ban that rattled a nation.
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Detroit has radical plan: Raze the dead in Motor City
Detroit officials have a radical plan to reduce the geographic size of the Motor City and concentrate its population in a more dense core.
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The Circle Bastiat
Homeowners still in denial
It's hard for homeowners to come to terms with the loss of value of their homes when they're trying to sell
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In Pictures: Detroit retooled
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Peace is profitable: time for the US to invest
The US ranked an abysmally low 82 on the recent Global Peace Index. Unless America invests in the structures to promote peace, it will continue to find itself at war. The peace dividend is worth it: The world could have saved $8 trillion if it had been at peace last year.
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