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New Musical At Globe Aims For Broadway

Some Sanders accomplishments have been derailed, but he promises to help successor

After the Midwest's driest summer in decades, farmers are assessing their losses and gains. Despite the hit many farms took, the Agriculture Department predicts record high farm income this year, thanks to higher prices and federally subsidized crop insurance.

Days after the Supreme Court's landmark decision on the health care law, lawyers say they're still teasing out the consequences in other areas of the law — including civil rights. That's because the ruling involves two federal powers that happen to be the backbone of most civil rights legislation.

Though some in East Millinocket, Maine, are thrilled the town's paper mill is open again, many are unhappy with what the jobs are paying. But for every resident riled up about the lower wages, there seems to be another who is infuriated at those who dare complain.

Since its inception in 1994, NADBANK has invested $1.2 billion in 155 projects on both sides of the border.

After her star treatment in Europe, Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi faces a much tougher time at home, where the country faces a range of difficult issues, including violence between Muslims and Buddhists in the western part of the country.

Worker productivity grew at the fastest pace in nearly six years in the second quarter while labor costs fell by the most in nine years, as companies slashed costs to survive the recession. Productivity, the amount of output per hour of work, rose at an annual rate of 6.6 percent in the April-June quarter.

Nearly one in five teenage girls say their boyfriend threatened violence or self-harm when presented with a break-up, according to a 2008 study on domestic violence among youth. Three individuals, including a father who lost his teenage daughter to an abusive boyfriend, share stories of survival and loss.