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Tuesday, December 25 2012

  • Today's Takeaway | December 25, 2012 December 25, 2012

    A Christmas Miracle: Donations from Strangers who Saved a Child | Deconstructing the Christmas Gift | Listeners' Most Meaningful Gifts | Celebrity Stories of Gift Giving | George Take... (episode)

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    • Deconstructing the Christmas Gift December 25, 2012

      The question over how and why we give gifts is central to the holiday season. What do we really value about gift giving and receiving? Nicholas Epley, a professor of behavioral scienc...

    • A Christmas Miracle: Donations from Strangers Save a Child December 25, 2012

      As The Takeaway explores stories of gift giving and gift receiving all this hour, a rare act of generosity changed Beth Gonzalez’s perspective on the notion of presents. Beth tells th...

    • Listeners' Most Meaningful Gifts December 25, 2012

      <p>'Tis the season for gift giving, and we asked you -- our listeners -- to tell us about the most meaningful present you ever received.</p>

    • Celebrity Stories of Gift Giving December 25, 2012

      <p>Recent guests, including actors Ed Burns and Brian Cox and singers Olivia Newton John and <span>Darryl McDaniels, tell us about the gifts that have meant the most to them.</span></p>

    • George Takei: Christmas at a Japanese Internment Camp December 25, 2012

      For George Takei, gift giving will always be associated with something that was taken away from him as a child. As a boy he remembers being rounded up at the beginning of World War ...

    • Remembering Newtown on Christmas December 25, 2012

      This Christmas, less than two weeks after the tragedy at the Sandy Hook Elementary School, we look at what it means to grieve during the holiday season with Rev. Mark Bozzuti-Jones, p...