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  • These days, a hit show can run not just for years but for decades. So how do you keep it fresh for new audiences? Reporter Jeff Lunden talks to people who work on three of Broadway's biggest hits to find out.
  • The Commerce Department reports the economy had its worst showing in a quarter-century. U.S. gross domestic product dropped at a 3.8 percent annual rate in the last three months of 2008. The GDP report shows the grim toll of the housing, credit and financial crises.
  • Dr. Kiss, a three-foot-tall wooden puppet, can handle his business in the wrestling ring. He's the star of a traveling show, reveling in the art and artifice of pro wrestling.
  • As Oscar nominees are announced, uncertainty remains over the fate of the annual ceremony. The ongoing writers' strike could short-circuit the awards show.
  • Leaders of Egypt, Jordan and Israel met with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to offer support during his battle with rival Palestinians in the Hamas organization. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said he will release 250 Fatah members from Israeli prisons.
  • The battleship ferried Franklin Roosevelt to a historic meeting during World War II and parried Russians in the Cold War. Now the USS Iowa is setting course for a second life as a museum.
  • Ernest Hemingway is iconic as a macho outdoorsman, but he had a very tender relationship with his mother-in-law Edna.
  • Echinacea has been widely used to treat the common cold, but a new study finds the herbal remedy has no effect on the virus that causes the infection or on the illness that results. Past studies have had similar results. But the message doesn't seem to sink in with consumers.
  • Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is speaking Thursday at his impeachment trial in Springfield. Blagojevich has not participated in the trial at all until now.
  • Though the nation's unemployment rate fell to 3.8 percent in February, employers actually cut payrolls by a net 63,000 jobs. The rate fell because so many people decided to stop looking for work — a new sign of weakness in the economy.
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