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Wednesday, August 1 2012

  • Today's Takeaway | August 1, 2012 August 1, 2012

    The Federal Reserve considers moves to lower the unemployment rate | London's Olympic stadium was built to be redesigned after the Games | Congress agrees on a budget two months ahead... (episode)

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    • Fed Considers Moves to Lower Unemployment August 1, 2012

      The financial recovery is happening very, very gradually, and the Federal Reserve's policy-making committee predicted in June that without any changes in the organization’s behavior, ...

    • London's Temporary Olympic Stadium, Built for Change August 1, 2012

      When London was preparing for the Olympics amidst the global recession, London’s Olympic Committee wanted a new kind of facility, an arena that could be completely transformed after t...

    • Congress Agrees on Budget August 1, 2012

      Here are two words we don’t see too often in Washington these days: “Bipartisan agreement.” Congressional leaders reached one of those yesterday to fund the federal government for the...

    • Living Well in Tiny Spaces August 1, 2012

      <p>In September, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors will vote on a proposal to reduce the minimum apartment size to 150 square feet. Will 'spacious' and 'urban' soon be completely mutually exclusive?</p>

    • When Power Grids are Too Big To Fail August 1, 2012

      It’s been three days since the power failure began in India, and the outage has grown into the largest ever. So what determines whether or not a power grid works or fails? Could what ...

    • In Defense of Algebra August 1, 2012

      Andrew Hacker, professor of political science at Queens College New York, recently proclaimed on The Takeaway that the age old belief that "algebra and mathematics generally sharpens ...

    • Remembering Gore Vidal August 1, 2012

      Few embraced their place in American culture with such passion and relish. Gore Vidal was the ultimate man of letters who once said "There is no human problem which could not be solve...

    • The New Gymnastics Dream Team? August 1, 2012

      It looks like the United States has its first gymnastics dream team since the “Magnificent Seven” in 1996. Dominique Moceano, the youngest member of the “Magnificent Seven” shares her...

    • Eight Badminton Players Disqualified August 1, 2012

      Eight Olympic badminton players have been disqualified from the Olympics for trying to lose. The ruling came this morning after three teams "adjusted" to a change in the Olympic rules...

    • Finding the Intersection of Politics and the Stock Market August 1, 2012

      There is an 82 percent accuracy rate when the S&P stocks rise in an election year, the incumbent President wins, and if prices fall he will lose. Charlie Herman, business and economic...