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Romney Says Obama Has 'No Agenda' For Second Term

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Originally published on Mon October 22, 2012 3:21 pm

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ARI SHAPIRO, BYLINE: I'm Ari Shapiro traveling with the Romney campaign in Daytona Beach, Florida. Ted Bickish and his wife Gina embody the two big problems at the center of Florida's economy. Ted lost his job when the economy collapsed. The only work he could find was in Virginia. They couldn't relocate because their house was underwater. And he couldn't afford to pass up the job either. So now...

TED BICKISH: Well, I go up there for about three weeks to a month at a time, and then I come home for a week.

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Sat October 20, 2012

Study: Under 30 Crowd Less Interested In Voting

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Originally published on Mon October 22, 2012 3:21 pm

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST:

This is WEEKEND EDITION, from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon. In these final weeks before the presidential election, both President Obama and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, are rallying their core voters to turn out on November 6. But the president may find it harder to win big among younger voters this year, as he did in 2008.

1:03 am

Sat October 20, 2012

Brandy's 'Two Eleven' Is One For Whitney

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Brandy's latest studio album is called Two Eleven.

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Originally published on Mon October 22, 2012 3:21 pm

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Sat October 20, 2012

Placido Domingo On Pop Singers And Karaoke

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Placido Domingo's new album, Songs, is his first collection of pop music in more than 20 years.

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Originally published on Mon October 22, 2012 3:21 pm

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Placido Domingo is one of the most influential people in classical music. During a 50-year career, he's played more than 140 roles, conducted more than 450 operas, and won just about every award that a human being can win in opera and life.

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Sat October 13, 2012

The Pirate Prince Of Sealand, Remembered

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British pirate radio broadcaster Paddy Roy Bates with his wife, Joan, and daughter, Penny, in 1966.

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The sovereign principality of Sealand is an artillery platform built during World War II about seven miles off the coast of Essex, England. Paddy Roy Bates founded Sealand in 1967, proclaiming it an independent state.

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Originally published on Sat October 13, 2012 11:58 am

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Paddy Roy Bates, the self-proclaimed prince of Sealand, was almost 80 when I met him in the summer of 2000. He was silvery and straight-backed — very much the model of a modern major, which he was in the British Army during World War II, when he survived frostbite, malaria, snakebites and a German bomb that shattered his jaw so badly a surgeon told him no woman would ever love him. So he married a former beauty queen named Joan and made her the princess of Sealand.

Let me explain.

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