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  1. Librarian Gary Klein looks at the jobs and other announcements posted at The Work Place, which provides comprehensive employment and career services, in Boston, Massachusetts July 2, 2009. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
    10 Cities With the Most Job Postings Per Capita U.S. News & World Report - Mon Jul 13, 11:03 AM ET

    Among the 50 largest cities in the U.S., one stands out for having the most abundant job postings per capita: Washington, D.C. The nation's capital boasted 133 postings per 1,000 residents in the second quarter of 2009, according to a report by Indeed.com, a broad job search engine that combs company and association websites, job boards, newspapers, and blogs for postings. That Washington took the top spot is no great surprise, as government hiring has held up during the recession.

  2. Scientists work on developing the H1N1 (Influenza A) vaccine inside a Bio-safety Level 3 (BSL-3) lab at Sillapakorn University on the outskirts of Bangkok July 12, 2009. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom
    New flu "unstoppable", WHO says, calls for vaccine Reuters - Mon Jul 13, 4:36 PM ET

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Saying the new H1N1 virus is "unstoppable", the World Health Organization gave drug makers a full go-ahead to manufacture vaccines against the pandemic influenza strain on Monday and said healthcare workers should be the first to get one.

  3. Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff outside Manhattan Federal court in early March. The former banker won't spend the rest of his life at a maximum-security prison as he had feared, according to a report that states the disgraced Wall Street financier is being transferred to a medium-security facility in North Carolina.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Stephen Chernin)
    Madoff on way to federal prison: U.S. official Reuters - Mon Jul 13, 5:31 PM ET

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Admitted thief Bernard Madoff was moved from his New York jail cell on Monday and was traveling to federal prison, a U.S. prison official said.