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If there is one thing Facebook\u2019s parent company does well, it is aping other social-media features and platforms\u2014and it is a propitious time to steal Twitter\u2019s thunder. Deeply indebted Arab countries desperately need loans from the IMF, but have good reasons to balk at the fund\u2019s terms (10:00). And New Yorkers love their invasive parakeets; the birds\u2019 enormous nests, less so (18:41).

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