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PRI's The World - February 8, 2010
Today on The World: US and NATO troops prepare for a major operation against a Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan; Also, clandestine dining in Spain that requires a password... or a fingerscan; And a Scottish balladeer with a new take on an old tradition.
PRI's The World - February 5, 2010
Today on The World: The story of a 13-year-old Pakistani girl who says her own family tried to force her to become a suicide bomber; Also, how alcoholism is helping to drive down life expectancy for men in Russia; And why the struggling economies of Greece, Spain, and Portugal have become a worry on Wall Street.
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Honda issues global airbag recall
Honda heaps more woe on Japanese carmakers by extending an existing airbag safety recall worldwide to 437,700 cars.
Lebanon warns of Israel 'threat'
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri says he is concerned about the "escalating and dangerous" threat posed by Israel.
Sweet tooth 'hints at depression'
Particularly sweet-toothed children may be depressed and at higher risk of future alcohol problems, say American researchers.
 
Eurozone's ills spread to neighbors
Investors pushed the euro up from recent lows, but for many other currencies some of the damage may have already been done. Alisa Roth reports.
Premiums may rise without reform
California's largest for-profit health insurer, Anthem Blue Cross, has told individual policy holders their premiums may jump up as much as 39%. John Dimsdale reports that Anthem's rate increase has become part of the health care debate in Washington.
The problem with marketing health food
First Lady Michelle Obama will lead a new campaign to fight childhood obesity. Nutrition advocates say part of this fight is making healthy food more appealing. Sarah Gardner reports.
StudioTulsa
On this edition of our show, we hear from the journalist and fiction writer Wells Tower, whose debut collection of short stories, "Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned," was one of the most acclaimed books published in America last year. Tower will appear in Tulsa tomorrow night (Wednesday the 10th) at a reading-and-signing event at the Hotel Ambassador. This event begins at 7pm, and it's co-presented by Book Smart Tulsa and the University of Tulsa's Nimrod International Literary Journal.
On today's StudioTulsa, we chat with Erin Walsh, an expert on how today's media affects young people, their families, and their communities. She's speaking in Tulsa tomorrow night (Tuesday the 9th) at 6:30pm in the Perkins Auditorium at the OU-Tulsa Schusterman Learning Center. Walsh will give a talk entitled "Jolts and Tricks: Unpacking the Power of the Media;" her lecture will be the first in a three-part, free-to-the-public lecture series at OU-Tulsa.
On today's StudioTulsa, we speak with Wall Street Journal staff reporter Scott Patterson, whose new book is "The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It." In this book, Patterson tells the story of Peter Muller, Ken Griffin, Cliff Asness, and Boaz Weinstein, four young men with genius-level IQ numbers who all felt that differential calculus, quantum physics, and advanced geometry held the key to reaping riches from the world's financial markets.
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