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The Labor Department today announced that it had approved Trade Adjustment Assistance for the former employees of the bankrupt solar panel maker Solyndra. That means all of the firm’s 1,100 ex-employees are eligible for federal aid packages, including job retraining and income assistance. The department has valued packages at about $13,000 a head.

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- The Dow industrials ($INDU$INDU ) crossed over the 13,000 level in intraday trading for the first time Tuesday, about six months after besting the 12,000 mark. The Dow had topped 12,000 for the first time in intraday trading on Oct. 18 -- it closed above that mark on Oct. 19 -- and it took 127 sessions for the blue chip barometer to reach the next 1,000-point milestone. The Dow has now gained 4.3% since the end of 2006 and 15% over the last year

This One Goes to Thirteen Falling oil prices, a halt in interest-rate hikes, and a wave of hedge-fund buying sent the Dow above 12,000. Now they’ll take it higher. By James J. Cramer o ahead, dismiss Dow 12,000. Virtually everyone I know on Wall Street will tell you to do so: “Small-time index, relic of another era, not important to signal a change.” To which I say, “Nonsense.” The Dow is not only the most representative snapshot of the American economy, but the venerable, oft-quoted index is still the one that entices people into the market. The broader averages will...

Dancing girls and the merry Magdalenian Archaeologists believe that 13,000-year-old cave paintings in Nottinghamshire were part of a continent-wide culture Sean Clarke Thursday April 15, 2004 The Guardian (UK) The people who created the first surviving art in Britain were committed Europeans, belonging to a common culture spanning France, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands, according to the man who discovered the cave art in Creswell Crags, Nottinghamshire. And the essential preoccupations of this single market in ice-age art, it seems, were hunting and naked dancing girls. The discovery of 13,000-year-old rock paintings in Nottinghamshire last year rewrote ice-age history in...

Clovis Man turns 75, plus 13,000 By MICHELLE SEEBER Clovis News Journal CLOVIS, N.M. — He lived among saber-toothed cats, hunted giant mammoths and bison and was smart enough to dig water wells. Other than that, even thousands of years later, we still don't know much about the people known collectively as Clovis Man. Last week marked 75 years since a local amateur archaeologist discovered Clovis Man at Blackwater Draw, about 14 miles southwest of Clovis in eastern New Mexico. Clovis people lived between 11,500 and 13,000 years ago. Since Clovis Man's discovery, evidence has surfaced that prehistoric man's first...