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A warming battleground for the new Cold War. I'm Barbara Bogave sitting in for Warren

On me, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International, a daily look at the issues Americans care about most. The Arctic's waters are full of ships, but few of them are flying

a U.S. flag. 41 Russian icebreakers patrol busy shipping channels, and that nations laid claim

to more than half a million square miles of the region's seabed. China, South Korea, and Singapore

are also vying to be polar

expedition's superpowers. Now with President Obama's Arctic trip, the U.S. is seeking a foothold

in a region where climate change holds both promises and perils. Can America catch up with

its rivals? And on today's talking point, jail time instead of psychiatric help. How an arrest

for stealing snacks ended in death from one mentally ill young man.

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It's to the point on Barbara Bogavin for Warren Olney. Just ahead, the president ends his

Alaska visit today with more calls for action on climate change, but is the U.S. taking urgent

enough action to get a foothold in the northern polar region, where Russia, China, and other

nations have already staked claims. The steaming up of the new Coldold in the northern polar region, where Russia, China, and other nations have already staked

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