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12:00 pm
Fri January 6, 2012

Diver Finds A Class Ring Lost During The '30s

Melissa Block and Robert Siegel talk about a diver who found a class ring lost in the 1930s — and reunited it with the owner's grandson nearly 40 years later.

Economy
12:00 pm
Fri January 6, 2012

Report Posts Stronger-Than-Expected Employment

The December jobs report came in stronger than expected, with employers adding 200,000 new jobs to payrolls. The unemployment rate fell to 8.5 percent.

Africa
11:51 am
Fri January 6, 2012

Rapper's Imprisonment Tests Moroccan Reforms

Morocco has been called one of the winners of the Arab Spring. The country's young king, Mohammed VI, offered a new constitution and early elections, taking the steam out of the February 20th protest movement.

But the arrest and trial of an artist who writes provocative rap songs shows that the reforms have a long way to go.

The rap songs of 24-year-old Moaud Belrhouat are popular in Morocco, even more so after the four months he has spent in jail.

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The Two-Way
11:11 am
Fri January 6, 2012

American Teen Mistakenly Deported To Colombia Is On Her Way Home

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Jakadrien Turner.

Jakadrien Turner, a Texas teen deported to Colombia after authorities said she lied to them about who she was, is headed back home today.

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The Two-Way
11:00 am
Fri January 6, 2012

Mountain Dew Mouse Story Goes Viral

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No, he wasn't going extreme, Pepsi says.

We thought the World Wide Web was supposed to make information fly.

But now we have to question that notion.

It's taken a year and a half for us to hear that Pepsi is defending itself against a lawsuit claiming that a mouse was found in a can of Mountain Dew by saying that the furry little creature couldn't have been there because:

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