Reworking Labor

The Workers Defense Project, a Union in Spirit

By STEVEN GREENHOUSE

The group, which focuses on the construction industry in Texas, has emerged as one of the nation’s most creative and responsive organizations for immigrant workers.

Ricardo B. Brazziell/Austin American-Statesman, via Associated Press

At a Workers Defense Project protest in 2011, top, at the Texas Capitol in Austin, mock coffins symbolized workers killed on the job.

Among the top prospects to oversee the Fed, Lawrence H. Summers leads in Wall Street experience, and wealth.

The Fed, Lawrence Summers, and Money

By LOUISE STORY and ANNIE LOWREY

Among the top contenders to lead the Fed, Lawrence H. Summers has by far the most Wall Street experience and the most personal wealth.

Timeline: A Life in the Limelight

A cleanup site in Mayflower, Ark., where a line burst in March.

Amid Pipeline Debate, Two Costly Cleanups Forever Change Towns

By DAN FROSCH

As the administration considers approval of the much-debated Keystone XL pipeline, cleanup efforts in two communities portend the potential hazards of transporting heavy Canadian crude.

Novelties

Kelley Alwood, project manager, worked on the SkySat-1 satellite in Skybox Imaging’s clean room.

Microsatellites: What Big Eyes They Have

By ANNE EISENBERG

By expanding Earth imaging, low-cost satellites could help many businesses keep track of their operations. But frequent updating of those images may also raise privacy questions.

Workspace

The Right Brain Sits. The Left Brain Stands.

Susan Gregg Kolger, 28, and Eric Koger, 29, are husband and wife and co-owners and co-founders of ModCloth, a social shopping retailer of independent fashion and décor.

The New Math of Media Deals

By MATT RICHTEL

The sales of three giants of the old-media world — The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and Newsweek — in as many days suggest one kind of change, but their prices suggest another.

Graphic: What’s the Going Price?

The Boss

A. BARRY RAND is the chief executive of AARP, based in Washington.

A Responsibility to Give Back

By A. BARRY RAND

The chief executive of AARP says his grandfather, a minister, taught him the importance of making life better for others.

Bits Blog

On its Web site, the Pirate Bay highlighted a link to its new Web browser, PirateBrowser.

The Pirate Bay Offers Web Browser to Avoid Censorship

By NICK BILTON

The Pirate Bay announced that it was releasing a free Web browser for people to access its site in countries where it is currently blocked — so they can reach Pirate Bay’s hundreds of thousands of illegal torrent files.

Bits Blog

Sheryl Sandberg Sells $91 Million of Facebook Stock

By VINDU GOEL

The No. 2 executive at the social network made her largest stock sale since the company’s initial public offering, although she still holds shares worth more than $1 billion.

Fair Game

The Housing Market Is Still Missing a Backbone

By GRETCHEN MORGENSON

President Obama has waded into the debate about housing policy, but has offered few specifics on how to bring private capital back to the mortgage market.

Strategies

This Ironman Market Is Still Lacking Respect

By JEFF SOMMER

By one measure, stocks are on an almost incredibly long winning streak, yet many investors have hardly noticed.

Economic View

When a Co-Pay Gets in the Way of Health

By SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN

To discourage waste in health care, insurance companies charge co-payments. But sometimes the co-pay discourages patients from receiving needed treatment.

The Workologist

The Exit Interview, and Missteps on Skype

By ROB WALKER

In a new column, readers ask the Workologist about how to handle an exit interview when leaving a company — and what to do when colleagues do embarrassing things on camera.

Corner Office

Hugh Martin, chief executive of Sensity Systems, an LED lighting company, says his team knows to avoid starting sentences with

Hugh Martin, on the Importance of Commitments

By ADAM BRYANT

The C.E.O. of Sensity Systems doesn’t like the phrase “My goal is ... .” It’s far better, he says, to demonstrate total commitment to getting something done.

Off the Shelf

In ‘Story of My People,’ Recalling an Industry (and Way of Life)

By FRED ANDREWS

Edoardo Nesi, a former businessman turned author, tells the story of the textile industry of Prato, Italy, in a memoir filled with musings as finely woven as his company’s woolens.

The Haggler

Skip the Romance; She’s Going to Court

By DAVID SEGAL

After an earlier Haggler column about a dating service, more dissatisfied customers tell of their dashed romantic expectations — and communication failures.

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