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Strange News
6:40 am
Wed June 13, 2012

Bacon Tops New Burger King Dessert

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Originally published on Wed June 13, 2012 7:00 am

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DAVID GREENE, HOST:

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Strange News
6:35 am
Wed June 13, 2012

Director Boyle Unveils Pastoral Olympics Opener

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Originally published on Wed June 13, 2012 7:00 am

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RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST:

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London 2012: The Summer Olympics
5:21 am
Wed June 13, 2012

Fencing's Father-Son Duo Hones An Olympic Dream

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Alexander Massialas (left) lands a touch on Britain's Keith Cook during last year's Fencing International Invitation in London.
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U.S. fencer Alexander Massialas pauses during practice with his father and coach, Greg Massialas.
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Originally published on Wed June 13, 2012 8:17 pm

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Energy
5:12 am
Wed June 13, 2012

Ruling Could Help Break The Nuclear-Waste Logjam

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About 70,000 tons of used nuclear fuel sits mostly at power plants across the country. Much is kept underwater in spent fuel pools, but utility companies have been moving the fuel into concrete and steel casks like these in Richland, Wash. Energy Northwest CEO Vic Parrish (center) tours the facility with Reps. Doc Hastings (left) and Jay Inslee.
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Pete Vavricka conducts an underground train from the entrance of Yucca Mountain in Nevada in 2006. President Obama canceled the planned nuclear waste repository there in 2009.
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Originally published on Wed June 13, 2012 12:43 pm

The federal government promised almost 30 years ago to find a place to bury nuclear waste from power plants. It hasn't. So the waste is piling up at power plants around the country.

Now a federal court says the government must prove that this temporary solution is truly safe. The decision could help break the nuclear-waste logjam.

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Planet Money
5:03 am
Wed June 13, 2012

Spain's Bank Yenta On What Went Wrong

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Angel Borges, matchmaker.
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Originally published on Mon July 9, 2012 8:55 pm

A couple years ago, Spain hatched a plan to help its small, regional banks. The banks, called cajas, had made lots of bad loans during Spain's real estate bubble.

The plan: Merge the bad cajas with the good ones, in order to make the losses more manageable and bring down overhead.

The government brought in Angel Borges, a banking consultant from Madrid, as a sort of yenta — a matchmaker who was supposed to help the cajas get together.

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