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America's controversial condiment just became Japan's newest pizza topping...

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It's a story that should make everybody want to invest in a fishing boat. A 489 pound bluefish tuna caught off the coast of Japan has just been sold for $1.76 million during an auction at Toyko's Tsukiji fish market. 

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Here's one tourist attraction that won't leave you breathless!

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First there was soda, carbonated sugar water that was sure to expand your waistline. Then there was "diet" soda, which didn't add any calories to the equation but was sweetened with chemicals that may not be so great for you.

Now, in Japan, there is something called Pepsi Special. This drink is so chock-full of chemicals -- mainly indigestible dextrin -- that there are claims it can actually make you skinnier.

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Top Story Podcast 4/28/11: First hour - Obama's birth certificate and related conspiracies, CSI Auto Tech Car Show, Cops. Second hour - Nuclear power...is it even as dangerous as coal power?  The libs would have you believe you belong in jail if you are pro-nuke, especially after the situation in Japan.   Read more here

The Environmental Protection Agency has detected very low levels of radiation from Japan's damaged nuclear power plant in drinking water in two U.S. cities -- Richland, Wash., and Boise, Idaho. "These levels are very, very low, trace, minuscule amounts according to  Jonathan Edwards, Director of Radiation Protection Division with the EPA.  This isn't the first radiation from the Fukushima nuclear plant detected in Boise.

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The Environmental Protection Agency says air monitors in Boise have detected low levels of radioactive material from Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant, but the levels are far below public health concern

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Leaking radiation is creating concern, not only in Japan, but in the United States as well. State and federal agencies have, and continue to monitor radiation levels.

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What will the long-term solution be here?? How will they keep these reactors from a total meltdown?

"The dumping was intended both to help cool the reactor and to replenish water in a pool holding spent fuel rods, Toyama said. The plant's owner, Tokyo Electric Power Co., said earlier that the pool was nearly

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Top Story Podcast 3/16/11: First hour: Teens and sexting - Just let them do it? Second hour: State of the City, potassium iodide pills flying off the shelves.

First hour: Teens who "sext."  Just let them do it?  Or should there be serious consequ