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6,000 manufacturing jobs were added last month, according to Labor Department jobs statistics released Friday.
• "The goal of doubling exports keeps getting harder to achieve, not easier," said Alan Tonelson, research fellow at the U.S. Business and Industry Council, which represents about 2,000 mostly family owned manufacturing companies. "We're actually backsliding, not making progress."
• Obama and administration officials counter by asserting that 7.2 million jobs -- 500,000 of them in manufacturing -- have been added since job losses bottomed in March 2010, two months after Obama set his doubling-exports goal.
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Outbreak of stomach illnesses is rare in United States, difficult to detect
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donna Heller thought she had cancer. But multiple visits to the doctor after a month with debilitating nausea and diarrhea didn't yield any answers. Convinced she was dying, she met with her lawyer to get her will in order.
• Then she saw a television report about an outbreak of cyclospora possibly linked to bagged salad mix. The stomach illness matched all her symptoms and is easily treatable with antibiotics. She told her doctor she suspected that could be the cause, and tests showed she was right.
• "It went so long and nobody was able to give me answers," said Heller, a 54-year-old teacher in Crowley, Texas. "It didn't seem like anybody wanted to take you serious because there are so many stomach problems that resemble each other."
• A mysterious outbreak of the parasitic illness usually found abroad is growing, with more than 400 confirmed cases in 16 states. FDA officials said Friday they had discovered the source of some of the illnesses, but not all of them. The agency said that the illnesses from Iowa and Nebraska are linked to salad mix from a Mexican farm that was served at Olive Garden and Red Lobster restaurants. Those make up around half of the cases.
• The rest of the illnesses -- many of them in Texas -- are still a mystery, state and federal officials say.
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World's second-tallest building nears completion in Shanghai; second only to Dubai building
• SHANGHAI (AP) -- A topping-out ceremony was held Saturday for China's tall (Continued on page 25)
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