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By Melinda Smith Wahington, D.C. 23 August 2006 watch Vaccine report In a perfect world, overweight people could take a pill to stay slim and continue to eat whatever they want. But this is reality and for years health experts have delivered the sam

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right, Ailsa, it's Friday. It's almost the weekend. I mean, I feel like we should just turn up some music. AILSA CHANG, HOST: Yes. I am so ready for this. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) GREENE: Now, this song is really important because

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KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Now we are going to remember the filmmaker who first showed us what it is like to set off in search of the perfect wave. (SOUNDBITE OF DOCUMENTARY, THE ENDLESS SUMMER) BRUCE BROWN: Many surfers ride summer and winter, but the ult

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: So if you haven't heard of the self-described dirty trickster Roger Stone, you might be missing out. And it is not just Stone who says so. MORGAN PEHME: We thought that Roger being a pot-smoking bodybuilding dandy and that he and

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MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now, this is one of those conversations that's going to be so obvious to some people that they might wonder why we're having it. And here, I'm talking about the 40 million Americans who currently participate in some form of onlin

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By Kane Farabaugh New York 20 September 2007 Government corruption and control of the diamond industry fueled the civil war that erupted in Sierra Leone in 1991. By the end of the decade, fighting had spread throughout the African country and includ

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By Amra Alirejsovic Washington 11 November 2009 Award-winning filmmaker and producer Mark Johnson is a founder of one of the most far flung musical groups in the world. For the past four years, he has brought together musicians who live thousands of

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The author of a famed relationship book is rethinking his own advice. Joshua Harris wrote the book, I Kissed Dating Goodbye. More than 20 years ago, it became a bestselling text of the evangelical purity movement. That movement p

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