Major League baseball players are now deep into spring training.But it is the excitement disabled youngsters bring to the Miracle League that intrigues commentator Frank Deford. The warmest moment I've ever enjoyed in sports came a couple of years ag

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The business news starts with a great leap forward in Chinese accounting. China's economy turns out to be bigger than anybody thought. By switching to a better counting, accounting method, the Chinese have discovered 300 billion missing dollars in th

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Anchor : As if you needed a reminder, there is less than a week left for you to finish your Christmas shopping. This year, many people are consciously trying to cut back on consumerism. For those looking for less materialistic ways of expressing the

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Anchor: (The) commercial Christmas Tree harvest has already peaked, a third of the Christmas trees sold in the United States are grown in the pacific northwest, Tom Banse reports on the challenges tree farmers face this year. Anchor: The holidays mig

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Marine Biologists and volunteers in Key Largo are working to save the survivors of a group of dolphins that beached themselves last week in the Florida Keys. Invesigators are trying to determine if sonar from a nuclear-powered submarine played a role

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Alcohol abuse remains one of the most serious problems on college campuses.Many schools have responded with anti-drinking campaigns and treatment programs. One college in Maine is trying an unusual approach and attempt to teach students the art of mo

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There's a big deal today in the world of sneakers. Germany's Adidas is buying Massachusetts-based Reebok, in an athletic shoe pairing valued at nearly 4 billion dollars. The acquisition should give Adidas added attraction, in its race with industry g

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Welcome to my living room. It's not a womb, it's not a tomb, not a June bright over December gloom. Carole King is about to embark on a Living Room tour. Miss King intends to try to make large concert venues like Radio City Music Hall, Cape Cod's Me

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Back in the 1980s and 90s, the city of Mostar in Bosnia-Herzegovina was a scene of civil war, between the Catholic Croates on the west side of town and the Muslim Bosniacs on the east side. The two groups coexist today, but as you could imagine it's

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Korea has strong Buddhist and Shamanist roots. For many centuries, it was known as the hermit kingdom because of its resistance to outside influences. But in the last 50 years, Christianity has taken hold in South Korea. The number of Christians has

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From NPR news, this is all things considered. I am Robert Siegel, and I am Melissa Block. We are going to begin today with news about GOOGLE. The search engine company has launched a new instant messaging and voice communication service. Until now AO

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The cold means that many of us will be turning on our heaters more and more and that means big bills for natural gas, home heating oil and electricity. In some places, the price of natural gas is up 70% over last year and heating oil is up 30%. In up

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This is Morning Edition from NPR News. I'm Steven S. The Bush Administration has taken the first step toward curbing imports of low-priced pants, shirts and underwear from China. It's investigating a surge in exports that began January 1st. That's af

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At 46, Steve Case has built a career full of superlatives. He founded American Online and turned it into the country's most successful internet service provider, but Case also guided one of the messiest corporate mergers in recent history when AOL jo

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Commentator Gwen Macsai is the mother of 2 boys and she has no idea how to prepare her sons for the craziness of girls. My sons have a total of 4 emotional gears: happy, sad, mad and hungry. My daughters emotional landscape, on the other hand, is lik

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And now for Money Myths, a new feature from Michelle Singletary. She is Day to Days personal finance contributor, and a regular Tuesday guest. And as the title implies, Michelle will try to correct some financial myths we all may have. She spoke ear

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The film Dark Water directed by Walter Salice opened over the weekend. It is the latest in a wave of American remakes of Japanese horror-films. In fact two of the most successful horror movies in recent years were adaptations of films from Japan: Th

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On the financial markets, traders reacted quickly to todays news, Londons FTSE Index lost about 4% of its value but then recovered about half of that before the close of trading. In the US stocks managed to shake off bad news from abroad and closed u

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Low-cost airlines have changed the travel business. Carriers like Southwest and Jetblue serve fewer cities than traditional airlines and offer fewer perks to passengers. They force the bigger carriers like United and Delta to change their business pr

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By Chad Bouchard Jakarta 01 October 2006 Mourners walk together on Jimbaran beach to lay wreaths for the bomb blast victims, Bali Relatives and friends of those killed in suicide bombings on Bali one year ago have gathered on the Indonesian island t

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