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The Daily Planet Food stamp demand rises: Surge in clients, backlogAsbury Park PressTeresa J. Capestro waited months for her food stamp card (whose ID number is blurred), saying the agency that handles it was backlogged and understaffed. / TOM SPADER/ASBURY PARK PRESS/TOM SPADER/Staff pho New Jersey's share of the federally regulated …Food stamp use up…

January food stamp usage in Utah saw a nearly 30 percent increase in participation over the same period a year ago. Prior to the Great Recession, Utah had one of the lowest food stamp usage rates in the nation. Now it has one of the fastest growing. More: continued here

Bloomberg U.K. Treasury Said to Advocate Time Stamps for Currency TradesBloombergThe U.K. Treasury has urged the Bank of England to look into requiring time stamps for all currency transactions as part of its overhaul of how various markets work, an official at the ministry said. Time stamps would provide a paper trail for clients …UK…

Sawant, Andhale to face trial in stamp paper scamTimes of IndiaVarious agencies had filed chargessheets against 68 suspects under the Indian Penal Code, Bombay Stamps Act and Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act … More: continued here

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nobel Prize winner Mother Teresa and Pulitzer Prize winner Bill Mauldin will be honored on U.S. postage stamps next year. Joining them will be Oscar-winning actress Katharine Hepburn, singing cowboy Gene Autry, artist Winslow Homer and Adm. Arleigh Burke. More: continued here

Chicago Tribune In search of the inner ThibodeauChicago Tribune"Some rare stamps," he said after a recent Bulls practice. "Oil paintings. And listening to Mozart." Don't forget acting. Thibodeau rattled those off with a straight face. Bulls general manager Gar Forman remembers …and more » More: continued here