Florida Gov. Rick Scott wants to steer students toward certain degrees. He says "tax dollars" should not "educate more people who can't get jobs in anthropology." By the way, his daughter got a degree in anthropology, but ended up working in a different field.

Even the state-run media in Syria is mentioning the Occupy Wall Street protests. Syria, facing its own protests, is highlighting American dissatisfaction. Now the U.S. embassy in Syria has responded on its Facebook page. The message acknowledges "unhappiness" about the U.S. economy.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is fighting for the survival of his center-right government as he goes before parliament for a vote of confidence Thursday. He faces growing discontent within his own party over his personal lifestyle and judicial woes. The test comes as Italy is becoming increasingly engulfed in the eurozone debt crisis.

The Libyan National Transitional Council says its fighters now control most of the Gadhafi stronghold of Sirte. The battle for the city has been bloody, with civilians caught in the middle and accusations of brutality on both sides.

Republican donor Ray Washburne was a major contributor to George W. Bush's presidential campaign, and he was the national finance chairman for Tim Pawlenty. But when Pawlenty pulled out of the presidential race, Washburne tells Steve Inskeep that it took some time before deciding to back Mitt Romney's campaign.

U.S. authorities have charged two Iranians in a plot to kill a Saudi envoy. Steve Inskeep talks to David Ignatius, a best-selling novelist and foreign policy columnist for "The Washington Post," and to Karim Sadjadpour, an expert on Iran and the Middle East with the Carnegie Endowment, about the plot which sounds like it came out of a spy novel.

Transcript

RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST:

These improvements in smartphones bring us to our last word in business: enhance it. It's a scene from countless movies and TV shows, computer experts race to analyze a blurry photograph to find a clue to catch the bad guy.

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UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Enhance it.

Steve Inskeep has business news.