Student Weekly Wrap-up, July 5

Student Weekly Wrap-up

Selected articles from this week's Journal to help you stay at the top of your class.

July 5 - 10, 2008

	MACROECONOMICS
Prices Drive Gas Use to Five-Year Low
U.S. drivers have cut back their use of gasoline to levels not seen in five years, data show, while supplies of gasoline are building.

	INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
IPhone Calls Software Developers
Apple plans to open its App Store, an online bazaar offering mobile applications, coinciding with Friday's release of the new iPhone. Apple CEO Steve Jobs said he believes the iPhone represents a rare launch of a new computing platform.

	MARKETING
Targeted Ads Raise Privacy Concerns
Cable and phone companies say their growth increasingly depends on being able to deliver targeted advertising, but criticism from privacy advocates is threatening that strategy.

	CAREERS
Web Sites for At-Home Jobs
The stream of emails Sue Shellenbarger gets from readers wanting to work from home is rising and the number of online scam artists who seek to profit on that desire are too. So she set out looking for a few honest Web sites that actually help people find real, paying home-based work.

	LEISURE & ARTS
Excuse Me, Do You Work Here? No, I Just Need to Fold Clothes
The ranks of obsessive folders have swelled as a generation of Americans has done stints as clothing-store clerks. Now, after countless hours spent neatly folding and stacking, their peculiar idea of perfection is straining marriages and leading to bizarre behavior.



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