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March 19, 2013 Life of Pi won four Oscars, including one for visual effects. But the company that did much of its work, Rhythm & Hues, is bankrupt and up for auction. At a time when movies are increasingly depending on computer effects, why are the economics not holding up?

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March 18, 2013 John Riccitiello, whose rocky six-year tenure saw a 60 percent drop in Electronic Art's stock price, said in his resignation letter that he leaves feeling that EA "has never been in a better position as a company."

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March 18, 2013 A Cypriot banking crisis has the potential to disrupt global financial systems, which are still trying to recover from the crisis of 2008-2009. The proposed tax on deposits in Cyprus could shake the trust in banks in Europe, and that could end up threatening the tenuous U.S. economic recovery.

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March 18, 2013 Is a strong dollar good or overrated as a policy goal? Financial experts face off over what's in your wallet, in the latest Intelligence Squared U.S. debate.

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March 18, 2013 A bailout in Cyprus provides an unsettling, potentially dangerous reminder: The bank doesn't really have your money.

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March 18, 2013 The $13 billion bailout by the eurozone and IMF would levy a one-time charge on deposits, including those of Russian oligarchs who have billions of euros in Cypriot banks.

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March 18, 2013 Recent allegations that a McDonald's franchise abused students, who came to the U.S. on cultural guest work visas, is reactivating the debate about how immigration reform should deal with guest workers, and whether the State Department's efforts to curb abuse have failed.

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March 17, 2013 Beer is a $200 billion a year business in the U.S., with most of that money going to two companies: Anheuser-Busch InBev and MillerCoors. But smaller "craft" breweries are challenging that dominance in a battle that's being waged on grocery store shelves and in local pubs.

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March 17, 2013 A company called Powerful Yogurt is now selling what it calls "the first yogurt in the U.S. designed for a man's health and nutrition needs." The Sandwich Monday gang gives it a very manly taste test.

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