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Wednesday, February 20 2013

  • Today's Takeaway | February 20, 2013 February 20, 2013

    Detroit on the Edge of Fiscal Insolvency | A City's Comeback: Lessons from Philadelphia | No Cruise Ships in Our Historic Port | Bringing Out the Dead, At Home | Our 'Unstable' Univer... (episode)

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    • Detroit on the Edge of Fiscal Insolvency February 20, 2013

      Detroit's financial future may soon be out of the city's hands. Yesterday a review team appointed by Michigan Governor Rick Snyder issued its final report, and explained what many in ...

    • A City's Comeback: Lessons from Philadelphia February 20, 2013

      As Detroit grapples with financial instability, what lessons can the Michigan metropolis learn from other American cities that have dealt with insolvency? Beset by a declining tax bas...

    • Supreme Court Will Hear Case on Money in Politics February 20, 2013

      Another big scene is coming up in the next term of that nine voice ensemble called the U.S. Supreme Court. The court agreed on Tuesday to hear a case on the limits of campaign contrib...

    • Cruise Ship Docks May Be Good for Business, but Some Charleston Residents Want Them Gone February 20, 2013

      Imagine yourself reclined on a cruise ship, sipping piña coladas, and leisurely moving through the ocean to the next stop along your week-long journey. What could be more idyllic? Now...

    • Your Stories of Near-Death Experiences February 20, 2013

      <p>In concert with another segment from today about preparing bodies for burial at home, we're exploring a place everyone knows about but almost no one ever goes. A place of almost, near misses, near endings.</p>

    • Bringing Out the Dead, At Home February 20, 2013

      Death is painfully human, strangely ordinary, and universal. It causes us pain, it requires planning, and it requires final decisions. But here in America, in most cases, it doesn't r...

    • Our 'Unstable' Universe Could Be Wiped Out by a New One February 20, 2013

      Dr. Joseph Lykken of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory posits that "vacuum instability," that a universe will blow up like a bubble in our universe and sweep across it, consum...

    • Make Your Story A Part of Our Virtual Movie Trailer February 20, 2013

      The Takeaway and our Movie Date team are asking you to help us create the ultimate audio movie trailer, using your real life stories. All we need is for you to give us a sentence or t...