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Stocks end at fresh 2-year highs E-Mail

Article Source: CNN

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- U.S. stocks wavered Friday but ended with slight gains, as investors digested a strong jobs report at the end of a week full of big economic news. All three major indexes closed at fresh two-year highs and the Dow and S&P logged their biggest weekly gains in more than two months.

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Unemployment drops in 85% of metro areas in September E-Mail

Article Source: AP/USA Today

WASHINGTON — Unemployment fell in more than 85% of the nation's largest metro areas in September, a sharp improvement from the previous month. The Labor Department said Wednesday that the jobless rate dropped in 321 of the country's 372 metropolitan areas, while remaining the same in 20 and rising in 31.

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Dalai Lama's 'Happiness Summit' offers interfaith views of 'wellbeing' E-Mail

Article Source: USA Today

Is everybody happy today? And what would that mean? Does God want you to be happy now? How? Emory University's Center for the study of Law and Religion brought on the biggest international pro on happiness,, the Dalai Lama, yesterday to chat in a round table with major voices of world religions: the Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church; British chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks and Islamic scholar Seyyed Hossein Nasr of George Washington University.

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Jobless claims fall below 450,000 E-Mail

Article Source: CNN

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Initial filings for unemployment insurance fell to the lowest level in nearly three months last week, an encouraging sign ahead of the government's highly anticipated monthly jobs report due Friday.

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Former homeless man using YouTube to give voice to homeless E-Mail

Article Source: USA Today

Over 15 years ago, Mark Horvath slept his last night on the pavement of Hollywood Boulevard and drank his last sip of alcohol. Today, Horvath is off the streets, but hasn't forgotten what it felt like to struggle. His personal battle with homelessness inspired the creation of InvisiblePeopletv, a charitable grass-roots project he launched in late 2007. His goal? To give a voice to the voiceless -- those without a home.

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