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Muncie, Ind., was once a manufacturing hub, but the recession has taken nearly all of those jobs away. So the city is banking on a new piece of machinery to help get it somewhat back on track.

Kai Ryssdal reports.

In Baltimore, an effort to turn one of the city's most neglected neighborhoods into a biotech hub has stalled thanks to the recession, leaving developers and a community in limbo.

Cathy Duchamp reports.

Kai Ryssdal introduces Marketplace's week in Dubai -- a city that wants to be the most influential place in the Middle East, the hub for everything in this world that can be bought, made or traded.