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Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!
11:00 am
Sat December 24, 2011

Prediction

The Mayans say the world will end in 2012. Our panelists predict how it'll happen.

Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!
11:00 am
Sat December 24, 2011

Carl's Holiday Letters

Carl reads three holiday letters from this year's newsmakers, including a family with a son on Wall Street; a man who can't stop bragging, and an annoyed media baron.

Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!
11:00 am
Sat December 24, 2011

Opening Panel Round

Our panelists answer questions about some of the biggest stories in 2011 ... Social Media claims another victim.

World
7:00 am
Sat December 24, 2011

Cape Race: 'Still A Place For A Lighthouse'

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST:

Off the northeastern tip of North America on Newfoundland lies a stretch of the coast known as the graveyard of the Atlantic. The rocky shoreline has sunk hundreds of ships. Reporter Emma Jacobs traveled to the red and white lighthouse on the tip of Cape Race that still warns ships away from the coast.

EMMA JACOBS, BYLINE: The day I visited in late fall was the kind of day the Cape Race lighthouse was built for. Twenty-foot swells rolled in towards the point through a thick fog.

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Middle East
7:00 am
Sat December 24, 2011

Syrian Violence Intensifies As Observers Arrive

Originally published on Sat December 24, 2011 7:25 am

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST:

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