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NPR Story
4:00 am
Fri March 9, 2012

Viral Video Educates World On Ugandan War Lord

The American non-profit group Invisible Children aims to raise awareness about Ugandan war lord Joseph Kony. A video the group made has gone viral on the Internet. Steve Inskeep talks to Barbara Among, a journalist with Uganda's Daily Monitor, to find out what Ugandans think of the campaign.

Planet Money
12:01 am
Fri March 9, 2012

Meet Claudia, The High-Tech Cow

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Technology at rest.

Here's the secret of the modern dairy farm: The essential high-tech advances aren't in machinery. They're inside the cow.

Take a cow like Claudia. She lives at Fulper Farms, a dairy farm in upstate New Jersey. Claudia is to a cow from the 1930s as a modern Ferrari is to a Model T.

In the 1930s, dairy farmers could get 30 pounds of milk per day from a cow. Claudia produces 75 pounds a day.

To appreciate a cow like Claudia, you have to know where to look.

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Movie Interviews
12:01 am
Fri March 9, 2012

'Friends,' Kids And Beating The System

The new comedy Friends With Kids explores how babies change the relationships of everyone around them. It's written and directed by Jennifer Westfeldt — who may be best-known for the 2001 indie hit Kissing Jessica Stein, about a single straight girl in New York who test-drives a romance with another woman — and features much of the cast that made Bridesmaids a breakout hit last summer.

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Around the Nation
7:15 am
Thu March 8, 2012

California Teacher Moonlights As Porn Star

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Around the Nation
7:08 am
Thu March 8, 2012

Indiana Legislature Votes On Official State Gun

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