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n U.S. unemployment fell toa four-year low of 7.7% lastmonth. The nation added236,000 jobs in almost everypart of the private sector. A1n The latest jobs report isunlikely to convince Fed offi-cials it is time to pull backon easy-money programs. A4n The Dow industrialsnotched a 2.2% weekly gain,their biggest since Jan. 4.The blue chips rose 67.58points to 14397.07 Friday. B5n The NYSE is revampingits disaster-recovery plan formanaging operations even ifits trading floor is shut. B1n China called for the U.S.to be “more open and trans-parent” in its national-secu-rity review process for in-bound investments. A8n Global investors are pil-ing into Japan at the fastestrates since 2006, sendingstocks to postcrisis highs. B5n American Express’s CEOreceived $28.5 million incompensation last year, a24% jump from 2011. B2

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n A North Korea-Iran pactis prompting U.S. worries.Pyongyang and Tehran en-tered into a scientific-coop-eration agreement in Sep-tember. Washington isconcerned the two countrieswill seek to use the agree-ment to advance their nu-clear capabilities. North Ko-rea and Iran have jointlydeveloped missile systemsover recent decades. A6Pyongyang signed a simi-lar pact with Damascusjust as it began building asecret reactor in Syria.n North and South Koreaescalated mutual threats inan early test of Seoul’spledge to open a new era oftrust with Pyongyang. A6n Thomas Perez, a top offi-cial in the Justice Depart-ment, is said to be Obama’schoice to become the nextlabor secretary. A2n A son-in-law of Osama binLaden appeared before a fed-eral judge in New York andpleaded not guilty to plot-ting to kill Americans. A3n Chávez’s funeral drewhundreds of thousands inCaracas, including IranianPresident Ahmadinejad andU.S. actor Sean Penn. A6n Kenyan presidential voteresults showed Kenyattanarrowly clearing thethreshold needed to win theelection outright. A7n The conclave to elect thenext pope will begin Tues-day, the Vatican said. A7

Employers stepped on the ac-celerator last month, hiringbriskly enough to bolster the re-covery but likely not enough toprompt the Federal Reserve toturn off its easy-money spigot.

The U.S. added 236,000 jobsin February, notching gains in al-most every corner of the privatesector. February’s gains werewell above the 195,000-job-a-month average of the previousthree months and pushed thejobless rate to a four-year-low of7.7%.

Surging stock prices, mending

housing and labor markets and abooming energy sector areamong the tailwinds propellingthe economy. U.S. stock marketsrose following the report, withthe Dow Jones Industrial Aver-age ending at its fourth consecu-tive record close, finishing theweek up 2.2% at 14397.07.

“The overall 236,000 numberis nice, but the breadth of jobsgrowth across industries tellsme that the recovery is broaden-ing and likely gaining momen-tum,” said Mark Vitner, senioreconomist at Wells Fargo Securi-ties LLC. “The mix of jobs is alsochanging. We’re creating higher-

paying ones.”Although February showed

promising momentum, the Fedisn’t expected to put the brakeson its easy-money programs un-til it sees further, sustainedgains.

Recent benchmarks, includingmeasures of gross domesticproduct and manufacturing, re-flect a recovery that is movingforward but at risk of losingpace as its main engine—con-sumer spending—is strained by

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Employers Ignore Economic CloudsUnemployment Falls to 4-Year Low, but Headwinds Persist

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TIJUANA, Mexico—He was like manypeople in their early 20s, at least the typewith spiky black hair and two lip rings.Four years ago, while living in this teemingborder city, Gonzalo Garcia says he spentfree time in the U.S., to shop, meet girls,and “hang out.” He had no idea he was de-veloping a potentially deadly form of tu-berculosis.

Exactly how long he had it will never beknown. He says he started losing weightand becoming tired and tried to get help.But it took a year before a doctor finallyfigured out what was wrong: He had adrug-resistant strain of TB. “Many doctorssaid I was just fine,” said Mr. Garcia, sit-ting in the clinic where he was cured.

To this day, it isn’t clear if he infectedanyone on either side of the border while

he was contagious. But his tale illustratesa nagging concern among health officialswho say the 2,000-mile border betweenthe U.S. and Mexico could become a breed-ing ground for one of the hardest forms ofTB to treat. Already, both California andTexas, as well as some states on the Mex-ico side of the border, have unusually highrates of drug-resistant TB.

“This is a very hot region” for drug-re-sistant TB, said Rafael Laniado-Laborin,chief of Tijuana General Hospital’s tubercu-losis clinic and laboratory, who has had aninflux of new patients recently—includingone who recently returned from the U.S.and is in the middle of treatment. With tu-berculosis of any form, people can getaround until the disease is quite advanced.“You will go and work and move around,”he said. “You will transmit the disease be-fore you know you’re sick.”

To be sure, the actual number of casesin the U.S. and Mexico is still small and therates of multidrug-resistant TB—or MDR—are nowhere near as severe as India, China,or Eastern Europe, where drug-resistantTB is at epidemic proportions. In 2011, themost recent year available, Mexico had 467MDR-TB cases, the World Health Organiza-tion estimates, while the U.S. had 124, ac-cording to the Centers for Disease Controland Prevention. Almost half of the U.S.cases came from California and Texas.Health officials say it is crucial to jump onprevention now, because the disease istransmitted airborne and can spreadquickly.

“We’re all connected by the air webreathe,” said Thomas Frieden, director ofthe CDC, and a TB expert who successfullybattled a major outbreak of multidrug-re-

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BY BETSY MCKAY

Risk of Deadly TB ExposureGrows Along U.S.-Mexico Border

Dozens of companies areseeking to void or block rulingsby the National Labor RelationsBoard in the wake of a court de-cision that found President Ba-rack Obama’s board appoint-ments unconstitutional.

In the past several weeks, com-panies including Starbucks Corp.,Time Warner Inc. division CNNAmerica andmedical tester Labo-ratory Corporation of AmericaHoldings have invoked a federalappeals court decision that foundthe National Labor RelationsBoard has lacked the power to actsince early last year. The courtruled that the president violatedthe Constitution when he by-passed the Senate to fill threeboard vacancies, making his ap-pointees illegitimate and leavingthe board without a quorum.

Since the January ruling by theWashington, D.C., appeals court, atleast 87 companies and threeunions have cited the decision incases at varying stages within theagency, including cases the boardhas yet to decide. Many companiesare telling the agency that actionsagainst them should be voided orblocked since the board or its ap-pointed regional officers made de-cisions while the NLRB lacked au-thority. Dozens more companiesare citing the recess appointmentsin appeals they’ve filed against theagency in federal appellate courts.

The companies are attemptingto do a variety of things, includ-ing overturn or block union elec-tions, undo penalties they wereordered to pay to fired workersand halt subpoenas. Employersalso argue that at least 10 NLRBregional directors are illegiti-mate because they were installedby invalid Obama labor-boardappointees, and say regional de-

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BY MELANIE TROTTMANAND KRIS MAHER

CompaniesChallengeLaborRulings

ALLENDALE, Mich.—As sev-eral of the faithful from the Val-ley Church here prepared to bowtheir heads in prayer to open arecent Saturday-evening meet-ing, they introduced themselves.

“My name is Darin,” theMethodist congregation’s 37-year-old music director said,grinning. “And I like me a 30-pack of Busch Light!”

The circle broke into laugh-ter as several people putdown bottles of microbrewbeer to applaud. It was a fit-ting introduction for theevent—a semi-regular meetingof beer enthusiasts and homebrewers who go by the moniker“What Would Jesus Brew?”

Pastor Matt Bistayi, whostarted Valley Church threeyears ago, says the goal ofWWJB isn’t to be “churchy,” butrather to “reach out to people ina loving, grace-filled way thatmeets people where they are andas they are.”

Valley Church is one of sev-eral congregations around the

country tapping the growingcraft-beer trend as a way to at-tract new members.

The number of Americanadults who consider themselves“unaffiliated” with any particu-lar religion has grown from 15%

to 20% in the last five years, ac-cording to a study released lastyear by the Pew Research Cen-ter. Among 18-to 29-year-olds,it’s roughly a third.

“The hardest thing in the

church, period, is reaching outto people my age,” says JakeShirreffs, a 23-year-old in black-framed glasses who plays guitarin the band at Valley Church.

Meanwhile, craft brewerieshave popped up all over thecountry and home-brewing hasbecome increasingly popular.Membership in the AmericanHomebrewers Association hasquadrupled since 2005, accord-ing to the group’s director,Gary Glass.

In Wilmington, N.C, the150-year-old St. Paul’s Epis-copal Church was strugglingwith membership a fewyears ago, so the communitybrainstormed ways to drawnew members. JeffreyHughes, a member of St.

Paul’s, came up with the ideafor congregants to brew beerand challenge other churches inthe area to a friendly competi-tion to raise money for charity.

Mr. Hughes presented his ideafor the “What Would JesusBrew?” competition at a meetingof church elders.

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BY ERICA E. PHILLIPSAND BEN KESLING

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Others Abstain From Tasting Trend; A ‘Swaddling Ale’ Falls Flat

Escalating Threats on the Korean Peninsula

ALL EYES: North Korea released a photo Friday of Kim Jong Eun visiting an outpost near South Korea, as the countries challenged one another. A6

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