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A man in Pakistan buys an amulet with the power to protect anyone from harm. He tests it out on a chicken.
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We go to Pennsylvania to figure out why both McCain and Obama think they can win there.
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Stories about people trying to find new solutions to age-old problems.
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A look at what regulators could've done to prevent the financial crisis from happening in the first place.
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Shalom Auslander goes on vacation with his family, and suspects the chatty old man in the room next door is an imposter.
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Mike Birbiglia talks about the sleepwalking that nearly killed him.
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Two babies switched at birth. One of the moms knew but kept it a secret for 43 years. Then she told everybody.
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Stories of people haunted by guilt over their role in others' deaths.
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The surprisingly entertaining story of how the U.S. got itself into a housing crisis.
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Freezing dead people so scientists can reanimate them in the future is a lot harder than it sounds.
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In 1912, a four-year-old boy went missing in Louisiana. Eight months later, he was found. But two grief-stricken mothers both claimed the same boy as their own.
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People who try to revisit their childhoods—what they find and what they do not find.
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We go into the writers' room at The Onion, where they start with over 600 potential headlines for their fake-news newspaper each week.
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