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The Takeaway for Monday, March 16, 2009 (Final Edition) (article)
In a majestic take-off into the Florida sky, a crew of seven was launched into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery yesterday. The shuttle is en route to the International Space S... (article)
Headlines; This week's agenda (article)
El Salvador heads to the polls (episode)
Large numbers of El Salvadorans voted yesterday in a tense election that could put a leftist in the presidency for the first time in this nation's history. The election is seen as so ...
Each Monday morning The Takeaway invites a person-in-the-know to look into their crystal ball and tell us about the events of the coming week. Today we're joined by Marcus Mabry, the ...
In the last few weeks we’ve witnessed some high-profile duplicity: From Bernie Madoff’s masterminding of a $65 billion swindle or the tax lapses of the Obama cabinet nominees (Daschle...
The war against drugs coming over the U.S. border is well documented, but what is rarely talked about is the impact of the U.S. war on drug routes. Turns out that cocaine is now being...
The Pakistani government agreed early this morning to reinstate the former chief justice of the Supreme Court. Many view it as a major concession to the opposition leader Nawaz Shari...
Today marks the anniversary of one of the most infamous events in U.S. military history. On this day in 1968, U.S. troops raped, tortured and murdered some 500 civilians at the Vietn...
A new report funded by the Center for Disease Control says the rate of HIV/AIDS infection in Washington D.C. has hit three percent. The rate is higher than in many West African countr...
The Pakistani government agreed early this morning to reinstate the former chief justice of the Supreme Court. Many see it as a major concession to opposition leader Nawaz Sharif, wh...
This week the Hearst Corporation will announce if it will shutter the 146-year-old Seattle Post-Intelligencer or turn it into an online-only publication with a much reduced staff. Thi...
AIG's bonus payments of $165 million to executives made no one happy. Well, the executives probably didn't mind them. From Ben Bernanke to Lawrence Summers, we're all mad at these guy...
Wrapped up as we are in our current recession, it’s hard for many of us to think about giving to charity. But Professor Peter Singer says that it is our ethical duty to give to charit...