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Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, on the tension between science and the 'feel good' sense of getting tested (http://www.thetakeaw... (article)
The Takeaway for Monday, November 23, 2009 (Final Edition) (article)
Headlines; When Health Care Science and Politics Collide (article)
When Health Care Science and Intuition Collide (episode)
This week, the Senate will take up debate on its health care reform bill. One of the questions at the center of that discussion will be how best to cut costs and still maintain good c...
Finance Takeout: New York Times finance reporter Louise Story joins us this morning to talk about private companies buying at-risk mortgages at a discount, sharing the profit with t...
Marcus Mabry, international business editor for The New York Times, and Nazes Afroz, executive editor for the Asia-Pacific region for the BBC, take a look at what's ahead for Indian p...
We check in on a potentially historic runoff for mayor of Atlanta, wher polls indicate Atlantans may elect the first white mayor since the 1970s. Turnout is expected to be low, howeve...
There's only four days left until Thanksgiving, when most of us will gather around the dinner table for a much-anticipated meal. But conversation at that meal doesn't always turn out...
On Saturday night, Democrats in the Senate secured the 60 votes necessary to introduce health care legislation to weeks of debate and amendment proposals. The vote signaled a further ...
Money Takeout: A new Harvard study proves what most of us could have guessed: the executives of Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns are still rich, even though they lost $900 million i...
The public option and the abortion-funding 'Stupak Amendment' have been hotly debated as health care reform grinds on, but another issue has been bubbling beneath the surface ever sin...
[Asian carp showing their leaping ability in a pool in the Mississippi River] There's a fight brewing with a specific fish breed in the Great Lakes region. The invasi...
We begin a week-long series on faith in America with a conversation about pushing boundaries within religious traditions. Jay Bakker, son of 'televangelists' Jim and Tammy Faye, discu...