The Women's Olympic ice hockey competition heated up in Sochi, with the Canadian women's team going up against their American counterparts. The last couple of meetings have seen bench-clearing dust-ups between the two sides. Also, we hear from an American couple who fell in love on a mountainside in Iraq. But then tragedy hit, testing their relationship. And, our history guy, Chris Woolf, sticks his toe into the dangerous intersection of camel archaeology and Biblical chronology.
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