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After a long battle, Republican Norm Coleman has conceded defeat to Democrat Al Franken in Minnesota Senate race. That follows a state Supreme Court ruling in favor of Franken today. NPR's Cathy Shaw reports. The unanimous court ruling came after an

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ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: A congressional hearing to fill top posts at the Justice Department today turned into a proxy war over the Trump administration's ties to Russia. Democrats pressed the nominee for deputy attorney general to appoint an independent

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The importance of context also arose in Mr Thaler's work on mental accounting. 背景的重要性还出现在了赛勒有关心理演算（mental accounting）的研究中。 In thinking about money, people tend to compartmentalise, grouping certain

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Mr Thaler, an American born in New Jersey in 1945, spent most of his early career at Cornell University before moving to the University of Chicago in 1995. 赛勒，这位1945年出生在新泽西州的美国人，在1995年转投芝加哥大学之前，

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