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Five Uncomfortable Facts About the Wonderful, Horrible...
It's all debt limit, all the time, it seems. Everyone's talking about what may or may not happen when the U.S. government finally butts up against its legal borrowing limit on August 2. That's the date that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says the feds will...
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About that Debt Ceiling Deal and Those Spending Cuts
Washington politicians were shocked--shocked!--when Standard & Poor's had the gall to downgrade the United States' credit rating a single notch from AAA to AA+. What temerity it had to suggest that the nation cannot continue to spend trillions more dollars...
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Asbestos, a Hidden Killer! Asbestos Death
10,000 people a year die from asbestos-caused diseases in the United States, including one out of every 125 American men who die over the age of 50. For the last 150 years, asbestos was considered an ideal material for use in the construction industry. It's an...
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For Rick Santorum, a Pregnancy That Is the Result of Rape Is a...
By BENTLEY OWEN - FRIENDLY ATHEISTAdded: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:33:27 UTC Rick Santorum attempted to justify one of his most bizarre stances in an interview with Piers Morgan on Friday, and the results were predictably scary: Morgan: Do you really believe, in...
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What Caused the Meltdown: A Financial Crisis FAQ
In March 2008, Bear Stearns, one of the largest investment banks and securities trading firms in the world, rapidly fell apart. The firm could no longer raise private capital to fund its day-to-day activities and, with billions of dollars in liabilities, faced...
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The Wait Wait Upfronts
Audio for this story from Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! will be available at approx. 1:00 p.m. ET May 19, 2012 Carl reads descriptions of three new TV shows based on the week's news, and a caller has to guess what they're about: Bye-Bye Billions, Hello...
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Limericks
Audio for this story from Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! will be available at approx. 1:00 p.m. ET May 19, 2012 Carl reads three news-related limericks: A Thousand Words, iJowls, and a Reptilian Diet. ...
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Historic Launch of Space Capsule Scrubbed
A technical problem has forced SpaceX to abort what would have been the first launch of a privately owned capsule to the International Space Station.The pre-dawn launch of the Dragon Capsule from Cape Canaveral, Florida was scrubbed a second before it was to occur...
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With Eye On Future, Billionaire Investor Bets On Paul
Audio for this story from Weekend Edition Saturday will be available at approx. 12:00 p.m. ET May 19, 2012 Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, who has donated more than $2.5 million to a superPAC backing GOP presidential candidate...
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In Turkey, Debating A Women's Right To Bear Arms
Enlarge Burhan Ozbilici/AP A Turkish Kurdish woman holds a photo of Guldunya Toren, an unmarried mother, 22, allegedly killed by her two brothers in Istanbul for having a child out of wedlock, outside parliament in Ankara, Turkey, in 2004. Her case prompted huge...
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