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  • A small Canadian firm takes on two of the largest drug companies in the world with its surprise launch of a generic copy of the best-selling blood thinner Plavis. Apotex began shipping its generic version to U.S. stores today. The makers of Plavix sold $6 billion of the popular heart drug last year.
  • Some of the children want to know how someone could do something so horrible. Others are too young to fully comprehend. Parents say there are no easy answers to the questions the children ask.
  • Amid intense fighting between Hezbollah and Israel, diplomatic efforts to end the conflict are in full force this weekend. The United States and France put forward a proposed U.N. Security Council resolution calling for an end to the fighting and for U.N. peacekeepers to patrol the Israeli-Lebanese border.
  • Shkreli, a former pharmaceutical executive known for raising the price of a life-saving drug by 5,000%, was sentenced to seven years in prison for securities fraud in 2018.
  • NPR's Veronica Miller has a cyber twin named "Becky." This "Becky" copied Miller's Myspace profile and tried to impersonate her. Miller reports on her quest to find out who was behind this online identity theft - and what happens when something goes wrong in a system without authority.
  • With U.S. visas in hand, they flew into San Francisco for an alumni reunion in Silicon Valley. But for reasons that are not clear, customs officials revoked many of the visas.
  • As athletes continue to test positive for illegal, performance-enhancing drugs, commentator Frank Deford asks listeners to keep an open mind about his own doping scandal.
  • Julia Choucair is an associate in the Democracy and Rule of Law Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the deputy editor of the Carnegie's e-monthly, the Arab Reform Bulletin.
  • President Biden departs for Seoul Thursday, and he's arriving on the Korean peninsula at a fraught time.
  • The restaurant is in a tiny city on the island of Palawan, known for its pristine beaches and exquisite diving.
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