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The people of North Berwick, Maine, are not accustomed to getting federal farm subsides. But then the government started paying farmer David Tuttle last year to give some of his tomatoes, strawberries and other produce to 200 senior citizens in the area.

A state agency's study found that Hispanic farmworkers have higher rates of brain, leukemia, skin and stomach cancers than other Hispanics in California, a phenomenon their union blames on pesticide exposure.

With about 13 years experience in the accounting business at the time, Beth Lutz and two of her friends decided to start a knitting shop 2

As many as 4 million people could receive extended unemployment benefits under economic recovery legislation signed into law by President Bush. But Anthony Walker, who was laid off in January from a parking garage, will not be one of them.

After recently restoring work schedules cut back after Sept. 11 and raising pay for hourly employees, Universal Studios is working on plans to open three new attractions at its theme parks.

Six months after the Sept. 11 hijackings, dirt-cheap seats on flights are scarcer - but still available to travelers patient enough to wait for fare sales.

No problems with side-to-side movements like those that doomed American Airlines Flight 587 were detected on the tail of a second Airbus A300-600 owned by the airline, officials at American said Sunday.

Hewlett-Packard Co. chief Carly Fiorina told her 88,000 employees in a November e-mail that talk about a feud between her and sons of the company's founders was merely "lazy reporting" by journalists trying to sell newspapers.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has won a court injunction to keep union organizers out of its 3,200 U.S. stores, and company officials said Saturday they hoped the union abides by the order.

The planned merger of Hawaiian and Aloha airlines, which generated widespread opposition from employees, stockholders and consumers, has been called off, a Hawaiian spokesman said Saturday night.