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  In budget fight, sky is falling again

  By Calvin Woodward  |  February 26, 2013

  President Barack Obama and his officials are doing their best to drum up public concern over the shock wave of spending cuts that could strike the government in just days. So it's a good time to be alert for sky-is-falling hype.

• More than 7 in 10 US teens jobless in summer

  By Hope Yen  |  June 13, 2012

  Once a rite of passage to adulthood, summer jobs for teens are disappearing.

• Military stop brings health care to rural Alabama

  May 9, 2012

  A military program to provide free health care in poor areas of the South came to one of Alabama's most impoverished regions, where teams have treated more than 12,000 people in less than two weeks.

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  The recovery turns 2

  By Paul Wiseman  |  July 1, 2011

  Two years after economists say the Great Recession ended, the recovery has been the weakest and most lopsided of any since the 1930s.