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Workers at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, California

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Facebook and Its Big Stock Offering

The social network company could raise $5 billion in its first sale of shares to the public | ECONOMICS REPORT

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Grow It Yourself: Diving Into Aquaponics

Interest grows in producing vegetables and fish in the same closed system, without pesticides | AGRICULTURE REPORT

Many children first learn the value of money by receiving an allowance

How an Allowance Helps Children Learn About Money

Parents can use even small amounts to teach about giving, spending and saving | ECONOMICS REPORT

Farmers Learning Limits of Popular Herbicide

A weed expert says integrated pest management can offer solutions when glyphosate fails | AGRICULTURE REPORT

Burmese children in class in Howard County, Maryland

A Community Helps Burmese Refugees Learn English

A schoolteacher and an employer in the state of Maryland develop a way to provide lessons at work | EDUCATION REPORT

Henry Ford with a Model T in Buffalo, New York, in 1921. About one million Model Ts were produced that year.

Henry Ford, 1863-1947: Life After the Model T

Second of two parts about the automaker who revolutionized the industry but whose Ford Motor Company fell behind GM | PEOPLE IN AMERICA

'Passive' Homes Save Energy, Money

Airtight homes reduce heating and cooling costs | ECONOMICS REPORT

Theodore Maiman with parts of the first laser at Hughes Research Laboratories

The Laser: How the Futuristic Became the Everyday

The favorite weapon of science fiction has found plenty of practical uses | EXPLORATIONS

Henry Ford, 1863-1947: He Revolutionized the Auto Industry

Others made cars. Henry Ford made better cars | PEOPLE IN AMERICA

President Obama with Richard Cordray in Cleveland, Ohio, on Wednesday

Obama Appoints Financial Protection Chief

He named Richard Cordray to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau over Republican objections | ECONOMICS REPORT

Consumers' Online Petitions Put Pressure on Businesses

Some petitions at Change.org object to girls shirts with messages that critics consider sexist | TECHNOLOGY REPORT

Occupy movement protesters demonstrate near a bank in Washington DC in October.

Public Debt, Protests Made Economic News in 2011

Top stories included Europe’s debt crisis and anger over slow economic progress around the world | ECONOMICS REPORT

A vendor exchanges money with a customer at a shop selling garlic, onions and potatoes at a wholesale market in Mumbai. India's food price index rose 8.76 percent in the year to April 16, government d

High Food Prices, Revolutions, and the Future

Experts say high prices helped cause the Arab Spring and will stay high unless production expands | AGRICULTURE REPORT

Charity workers dressed as Santa Claus pass St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City in an annual parade to raise money for a holiday food program for needy residents

Religion Gets Largest Share of Charity in US

More than one-third of charitable giving by Americans goes to religious organizations. Schools are second | ECONOMICS REPORT

English is a common language for business, but communication is not just about language

Business English Speakers Can Still Be Divided by a Common Language

More than ever, English is the language of business, but even native speakers can learn something | ECONOMICS REPORT

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