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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.
PRI's The World - February 4, 2010 Today on The World: Why US-China relations are rocky right now and could get rockier still; Also, the BBC helps a teenage quake survivor in Haiti get in touch with his mother in the US; Plus, new technology helps consumers find out the environmental cost of the products they buy.
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