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The Two-Way
8:48 am
Fri December 9, 2011

Missing Ex-FBI Agent's Family To Captors: 'Tell Us Your Demands'

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Robert Levinson, in the video his family received from the retired FBI-agent's captors.
The Two-Way
7:20 am
Fri December 9, 2011

'Inferno' At Hospital In India Kills Scores, Staff Accused Of Running

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A grieving woman at the scene of today's fire in Kolkata.

Horrific news from Kolkata, India:

"A basement fire sent flames and smoke coursing through a seven-story Indian hospital Friday, killing 73 people," The Associated Press reports, "and officials accused hospital staff of abandoning many patients to die of suffocation."

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The Two-Way
6:55 am
Fri December 9, 2011

U.K. Isolated As Euro Nations Move Ahead On New Pact

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Britain Prime Minister David Cameron (left) and Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte earlier today at the summit in Brussels.

There's been movement today in Brussels, where leaders from the European Union nations are trying to save the euro and restore some faith in the financial markets that they can manage the euro zone's debt crisis. But an important division remains among the 27 nations.

The consensus among news outlets covering the story seems to be:

-- "UK Isolated As Europe Moves Ahead On Fiscal Union." (Reuters)

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Strange News
6:31 am
Fri December 9, 2011

Coca-Cola's Secret Recipe Gets A New Home

Originally published on Fri December 9, 2011 9:35 am

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LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST:

Good morning. I'm Linda Wertheimer. Coca-Cola took its secret recipe out of SunTrust bank this week and drove it over to a new Coca-Cola museum in downtown Atlanta. But should you visit Coca-Cola World, you still won't see it. The 1886 recipe is in a box, and the box is in another vault. Taking the recipe for a ride, Coke says has nothing to do with the fact that the bank is selling millions of dollars of its Coke stock. It's MORNING EDITION. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.

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