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Business
1:00 am
Fri March 9, 2012

Gamer Double Fine Works Around Publishers

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

This week, San Francisco is hosting the Game Developers Conference. It's the largest global event for the industry that makes video and online games. Twenty thousand people from one hundred countries are there right now. And a game that hasn't even been created yet is getting lots of attention.

From member station KQED in San Francisco, Aarti Shahani reports.

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Planet Money
9:01 pm
Thu March 8, 2012

Meet Claudia, The High-Tech Cow

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Technology at rest.

Originally published on Mon March 12, 2012 8:09 am

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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Around the Nation
4:15 am
Thu March 8, 2012

California Teacher Moonlights As Porn Star

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Around the Nation
4:08 am
Thu March 8, 2012

Indiana Legislature Votes On Official State Gun

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RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST:

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NPR Story
1:00 am
Thu March 8, 2012

Creditors Face Deadline In Greek Bond Swap

Originally published on Fri March 9, 2012 1:00 pm

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RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST:

Private creditors holding Greek bonds have until the end of today to participate in the largest sovereign debt restructuring in history. This means creditors must exchange the Greek government bonds they now hold for new ones that are worth far less. Some creditors are balking, since it means up to a 70 percent loss on their returns.

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