Detroit Goes From Gloom to Economic Bright Spot

By BILL VLASIC

The excesses that hurt automakers in the past — overproduction, bloated vehicle lineups and expensive rebates — are now gone, analysts say.

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James Kim, a new engineer at Chrysler. “It’s almost like going to a start-up business,” he said.

A farmer in Rupert, Idaho compares a genetically engineered sugar beet, left, with a conventional sugar beet.

Judge Revokes Approval of Modified Sugar Beets

By ANDREW POLLACK

A federal district judge said the Agriculture Department needed to better assess the environmental consequences.

F.D.A. Approves 5-Day Emergency Contraceptive

By GARDINER HARRIS

The pill, called ella, will require a prescription but is more effective than Plan B, which is available over the counter.

Pharmacists Brittany Bryant, center, and her sister Stephanie, right, lead a chair aerobics class in Augusta, Ga.

Pharmacists Take Larger Role on Health Team

By REED ABELSON and NATASHA SINGER

Drugstore pharmacists are taking on more responsibility for monitoring patients with long-term illnesses.

Generations Reflect Change in Pharmacist’s Role

A Decade of Wooing Wins a Harlem Store for Target

By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD

Target, which opened its first Manhattan store last month, has made an ambitious effort to avoid local opposition that has hurt other big retailers.

U.S. Inquiry of Drug Makers Is Widened

By GARDINER HARRIS and NATASHA SINGER

The inquiry focuses on whether companies made illegal payments to doctors and officials in foreign countries.

New Rules on Finance to Be Done in the Open

By SEWELL CHAN

Agencies responsible for writing new financial rules are striving for transparency to avoid the appearance of improper coziness with lobbyists and banking executives.

Thomas M. Hoenig, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, said that the central bank’s monetary strategy could backfire.

Federal Reserve Official Sees Chance of a New Boom-and-Bust Cycle

By SEWELL CHAN

Thomas M. Hoenig says the Fed needs to avoid the monetary policy that followed the recessions of 1990-91 and 2001.

Wall Street Tries to Sort Through Economic Reports

Blackstone to Pay $4.7 Billion for Dynegy

By MICHAEL J. de la MERCED

The purchase is the largest leveraged buyout in the world so far this year.

Dynegy Gives Blackstone a Big Bet on Energy

Insight & Analysis

Talking Business

Real Reason for Ousting H.P.’s Chief

By JOE NOCERA

The Hewlett-Packard board created a smoke screen to oust Mark V. Hurd when it could have fired him on legitimate grounds.

Your Money

Your Card Has Been Declined, Just as You Wanted

By RON LIEBER

MasterCard is about to introduce tools for credit and debit cards that let consumers block a highly customizable array of purchases.

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Wealth Matters

Bill Gates and Warren Buffett last year. Their Giving Pledge program has spurred debate.

Pledging Fortunes Takes Extra Effort in Shaky Recovery

By PAUL SULLIVAN

Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett can give half their billions to charity and not blink. The merely rich have to think harder about when and how much.

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Patient Money

Brenna Funck, left, and her mother, Donna, at Pensacola Snow, their summer business in Pensacola, Fla. Brenna’s parents say they will enroll her in the student health plan when she attends Tulane University this fall, although it pays a maximum of $250,000 per condition per lifetime.

Filling in the Insurance Gap for Adult Children

By MICHELLE ANDREWS

Under the health law, young adults can be covered by their parents’ insurance. Still, many are likely to face a gap in coverage.

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Shortcuts

If You’re Going to Be Edited, Be Sure the Result Is Still You

By ALINA TUGEND

The line between acceptable and unethical is thin and fuzzy when hiring a professional to help with a résumé, college application essay or dating profile.

Weekend Business

This week: Jeff Sommer with Floyd Norris on the sluggish economy, Tim O’Brien and Stephanie Rosenbloom on what makes consumers happy, Paul Lim on investing for deflation, and Damon Darlin on Netflix’s mastery of creative destruction.