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Facebook is expected to file papers for an initial public offering this week and industry watchers say the company may be valued at nearly $100 billion. By Steve Henn Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg poses at Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif., Feb. 5, 2007. (AP)
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All Songs Considered
Clockwise from bottom left: Gotye, White Rabbits, Jana Hunter from Lower Dens, Leonard Cohen.
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Planet Money
* A broader measure of unemployment fell to 15.1 percent. This measure includes those who have given up looking for work over the past year as well as those working part time because they can't find a full-time job. In absolute terms, the job market is still in bad shape: Before the recession, an unemployment rate of 8.3 percent would have been viewed as a disaster. There are five million fewer U.S. jobs today than there were five years ago. * The unemployment rate fell to 8.3 percent — the lowest since February, 2009. But the trend over the past few months is very promising.
APM: Marketplace
As the European Union prepares to increase sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, the Islamic Republic has retaliated with a threat to close the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic waterway for oil exports.
This American Life
GO BEHIND THE SCENES WATCH A PREVIEW The war is over, but the Spanish flu arrives at Downtown and transforms the fortunes for all. Tune in on Sunday at 9 p.m. on WGBH, Channel 2. MASTERPIECE
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Old Radio World
Free Old Time Radio Shows from "The Golden Age of Radio!" Welcome to OldRadioWorld.com! Here at OldRadioWorld.com you will find some of the most popular radio programs of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. Before television, radio provided entertainment by presenting radio plays and programs of mystery, intrigue, and comedy. Of course, news was present as were many soap operas. I have been a big fan of Old Time Radio over the years and my preferences for programs have evolved, but one thing still amazes me, the sound effects and how the sound men created them.
