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For weeks, the regional bloc ECOWAS has threatened to undo the putsch by force. But appetite for a military response\\u2014the ultimate deterrent in a coup-prone region\\u2014seems small and waning. Russia\\u2019s rouble has become one of the world\\u2019s worst-performing currencies, and there are not many good options to rescue it (09:40). And a tribute to an American pioneer of consumer-product safety (16:22).

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