Marketplace 9/13/2004

# Newscast Was US Airway's liquidation warning a bluff? Or is the airline merely putting the best face on its inevitable demise?
# The forecast for the Caribbean's long-term recovery from Hurricane Ivan does not look sunny.
# Did you know that big institutional investors bet on hurricanes and earthquakes -- and make money at it?

Features
Corporate Tax Shelters Offshore
Go offshore. As suspected, that's the ticket for more and more multinational corporations, according to a new report. There's a key reason companies are drifting away from the U.S. to Luxembourg, Ireland, and Bermuda.
Reporter: John Dimsdale
23 minutes in Brussels - Luna
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Ballot Bucks 2004
Tomorrow, voters in Washington will choose candidates for governor, attorney general and a number of open congressional seats. They've received hundreds of pieces of direct mail and visits from the candidates in the months leading up the primary. But what could decide many of the contests also happens to be one of the most expensive tools of the political arsenal.
Reporter: Amy Scott
Web Resource: Ballot Bucks 2004 Main Page
Coffee & TV - Blur
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Singapore Libel
"The Economist" magazine has become the latest foreign news organization to fall foul of Singapore's defamation laws. The magazine has apologized to the country's Prime Minister and agreed to pay $250,000 in damages over an article published last month. But press freedom advocates have criticized both sides of the dispute: Singapore for what they call repression, and "The Economist" and other western media outlets for "caving in."
Reporter: Stephen Beard
For Sure - Lostprophets
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Internet Trends
Sears today announced it's adding a full line of apparel to its website. They're hoping to carve out a piece of what is now the second biggest market in e-commerce. But even if you don't buy anything when you go online, you may be contributing to the growth of an internet industry.
Q + A: Host David Brown in conversation with Andrew Zolli
The Matrix - The Matrix Soundtrack
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It's not just the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians that's making life hard in the Gaza Strip. Political uncertainty around Yasir Arafat's rule is adding to reconstruction woes.