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Giant Food Shoppers Can Scan as They Go

Supermarket chain Giant Food has added handheld scanners at about 60 of its 182 stores in the Washington area that allow customers to tally the cost of their groceries as they shop.

By Ylan Q. Mui

Businesses Ready if Flu Spreads

At Booz Allen Hamilton headquarters in McLean, an emergency operations center has been opened with large monitors hanging on the wall tracking the progress of swine flu.

By Michael S. Rosenwald

KBR Connected to Alleged Fraud, Pentagon Auditor Says

KBR, the Army's largest contractor in Iraq and Afghanistan, is linked to "the vast majority" of suspected combat-zone fraud cases that have been referred to investigators, as well as a majority of the $13 billion in "questioned" or "unsupported" costs, the Pentagon's top auditor said yesterday.

By Ellen Nakashima

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