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Price Fight: Coke Isn't It At Costco
from NPR: Business Story of the Day Podcast on November 20, 2009
Duration: 187
Duration: 187
If you're a member of Costco, the nation's largest wholesale club, you may be surprised to learn that Coca-Cola's products are no longer on the shelves. The two companies are locked in a rare public dispute over the price consumers pay for beverages.
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Do Long Island Police Ignore Hate Crimes?
from NPR: Story of the Day Podcast on November 20, 2009
Duration: 458
Duration: 458
With the Latino population booming in Suffolk County, N.Y., so is anti-immigrant sentiment. Illegal immigrants see a rise in the kind of violence that took Rosario Lucero's son, but often won't report it for fear of the police and deportation. Now the Justice Department is probing whether local police are turning a blind eye.
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Suitors Vie For British Candy Maker Cadbury
from NPR: Business Story of the Day Podcast on November 19, 2009
Duration: 205
Duration: 205
One of Britain's most revered companies is under threat of a takeover. Candy maker Cadbury already rejected a hostile takeover bid by U.S. giant Kraft Foods. Hershey has confirmed it is considering a joint takeover bid for Cadbury, along with Italian chocolate maker Ferrero. But it seems the offers may need to be considerably sweetened to persuade the British.
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Karzai Sees Afghan Security Control Within 5 Years
from NPR: World Story of the Day Podcast on November 19, 2009
Duration: 284
Duration: 284
Afghan President Hamid Karzai pledged Thursday to prosecute corrupt officials, and said the country would control it own security within five years. Karzai's comments came in an inauguration speech that kicked off his second term of office amid a growing Taliban insurgency and a cloud of corruption allegations.
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Parking Garages: A Multilevel History
from NPR: Story of the Day Podcast on November 19, 2009
Duration: 348
Duration: 348
"House of Cars," an exhibit at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., traces the origins and design challenges of the places we store our cars. While it's unclear who created the first parking garage, the exhibit highlights some little-known and quirky facts about these structures that dot the American landscape.
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Federal Subsidies Keep Small-Town Airports Flying
from NPR: Business Story of the Day Podcast on November 18, 2009
Duration: 254
Duration: 254
You may not ever take a flight to a place like Hot Springs, Ark. but you're paying part of the cost for people who do. Under a decades-old government program, federal money is used to subsidize commercial air service for small communities that can't support it on their own.
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Story Specialists: Doctors Who Write
from NPR: Story of the Day Podcast on November 18, 2009
Duration: 397
Duration: 397
The history of literature is filled with authors who also performed surgery or scribbled prescriptions. Lynn Neary speaks with two doctors who are also fiction writers Abraham Verghese and Terrence Holt about the link between medicine and writing literature.
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When Football's Deadly Brutality Outraged America
from NPR: Sports with Frank Deford Podcast on November 18, 2009
Duration: 239
Duration: 239
In just one season 100 years ago, 26 players died from injuries sustained in football games. The deaths sparked a national outcry and forced the new collegiate athletic association to take action to make the sport safer.
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Pakistan Touts Military Successes Against Taliban
from NPR: World Story of the Day Podcast on November 18, 2009
Duration: 303
Duration: 303
Pakistan's army says it has captured most major Taliban bases in South Waziristan. It plans to fan out across the area's rugged countryside to hunt down militants. The tribal area along the Afghan border has been a command center for extremists. The army flew a group of journalists to the area to see two Taliban strongholds that were captured in the offensive.
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In Flourishing India, An Old Obsession With Pakistan
from NPR: World Story of the Day Podcast on November 17, 2009
Duration: 536
Duration: 536
Since they were founded from the partition of British India in 1947, Pakistan and India have become locked in a relationship rooted in rivalry and suspicion. But many Indians believe the country's biggest foreign policy challenge these days is its rivalry with China, and that it is time to put aside old attitudes about Pakistan.
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Wall Street Now Home To American Indian Firm
from NPR: Business Story of the Day Podcast on November 17, 2009
Duration: 216
Duration: 216
A Sioux tribe based in Lower Brule, S.D., just bought the Westrock Group, making the company the first fully Native American-owned investment firm. As a tribal business Westrock will gain access to a new pool of money and it won't have to pay federal income tax.
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Why This Wisconsin City Is The Best Place To Die
from NPR: Story of the Day Podcast on November 17, 2009
Duration: 527
Duration: 527
Joe Hauser lives in La Crosse, Wis., where nearly all older adults have signed a directive outlining their end-of life plans. Hauser's kidneys are failing and he doesn't want to live on a machine, but he's keeping his options open. Talking about end-of-life care helps people make informed choices and have their wishes heard, hospital staff says.
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