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Morning Edition, NPR's weekday morning newsmagazine  providing news in context, airing thoughtful ideas and commentary, and reviewing important new music, books, and events in the arts.

 

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Author Interviews
10:01 pm
Wed March 7, 2012

'Fragile Beginnings': When Babies Are Born Too Soon

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Adam Wolfberg is a specialist in high-risk obstetrics at Tufts Medical Center and an assistant professor at Tufts University School of Medicine.
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Dr. Adam Wolfberg had two daughters and another on the way when his wife, Kelly, went into labor. But this joyous occasion had come much too soon — Kelly was three months away from her due date. After just 26 weeks in the womb, their baby daughter Larissa entered the world by emergency cesarean section and was whisked into the neonatal intensive care unit of a Boston hospital. It was the same hospital where Wolfberg was doing his residency in obstetrics and gynecology, and his medical background turned out to be a mixed blessing.

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Food
5:23 am
Wed March 7, 2012

Happy Birthday! Oreo Cookie Turns 100

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The first batch of Oreo cookies was made at the original Nabisco bakery in New York in 1912. The company is releasing limited edition "Birthday Cake" Oreos.

Around the Nation
5:16 am
Wed March 7, 2012

Salt Lake City Opens Sealed 1959 Time Capsule

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

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Election 2012
2:00 am
Wed March 7, 2012

Romney Wins Ohio, A Pivotal Battleground State

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Mitt Romney won the GOP presidential primary in Ohio Tuesday night. Unlike most of the other states voting on Super Tuesday, Ohio will be a pivotal swing state in the general election.

Economy
2:00 am
Wed March 7, 2012

Housing Stalls Election Year Economic Growth

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Originally published on Wed March 7, 2012 4:53 am

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RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST:

Let's devote the next few minutes to the subject that President Obama began his press conference on, the U.S. housing market. The president pointed out that in many ways the U.S. economy is looking up. But...

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: There are still millions of Americans who can't find a job. There are millions more who are having a tough time making the rent or the mortgage, paying for gas or groceries. So our job in Washington isn't to sit back and do nothing. And it's certainly not to stand in the way of the recovery.

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