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Monday, December 29 2008

  • 10 Tips: How to recover from holiday clutter December 29, 2008

    Listen to Meaghan O'Neill's suggestions for greening up your holiday cleanup. Nationwide, there was a lot of focus this year on how to green up your holiday season, and with good r... (article)

  • The most interesting day in modern NFL history December 29, 2008

    Listen to Jeff Beresford-Howe discuss the eventful NFL Sunday on The Takeaway. Yesterday may have been the single most interesting day in the modern history of the NFL, and it was ... (article)

  • The Takeaway for Monday, December 29, 2008 (Early Edition) December 29, 2008

    Headlines; Israeli airstrikes kill more than 300 in Gaza; Tensions rise as Pakistani troops move to Indian border (article)

  • Latest from Gaza December 29, 2008

    Latest from Gaza (episode)

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    • Latest from Gaza December 29, 2008

      With increasing violence between Israel and Hamas, there is currently no end in sight. For the latest on the situation unfolding in the Gaza Strip, The Takeaway talks to New York Time...

    • Pakistan commemorates assassination of Bhutto December 29, 2008

      One year has passed since the murder of the former Prime Minister of Pakistan. Meanwhile, tensions with neighboring India are high and there are reports that Pakistan is redeploying t...

    • The $10 trillion dollar hangover December 29, 2008

      $438 billion. That was the projected cost of the deficit in September of this year, before the word "bailout" entered the American lexicon and exploded the national deficit. Linda Bil...

    • Argh: China steps in to the pirate fray December 29, 2008

      Somali pirates have been grabbing headlines for months for hijacking tanker after tanker. The Somali government is in shambles and its president is resigning and they are in no positi...

    • Somali president is resigning December 29, 2008

      The Somali president, Abdullahi Yusuf, has announced he's resigning. Mr. Yusuf has come under increasing pressure since he tried to sack the Somali prime minister in a power struggle ...

    • Mideast Analysis: Israel's confrontation with Hamas December 29, 2008

      For analysis of the latest violent flare-up between Israel and Hamas, The Takeaway talks to Aaron David Miller, public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Sc...

    • Bailout veterans cash in December 29, 2008

      Happy days are here again for a group of former senior government officials who were involved in the savings and loan bailout of the 1990s. Now they are lawyers, investors, and lobbyi...

    • Violence continues in Gaza December 29, 2008

      Today is the third day of Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip in response to regular rocket attacks by Hamas. According to the Associate Press, more than 300 Palestinians are dead an...

    • International art biennial revives New Orleans December 29, 2008

      Ever since Hurricane Katrina pounded the Gulf Coast, the news coming out of New Orleans has been grim. The crumbling infrastructure, rising crime, and a housing crisis exacerbated by ...

    • Neuroeconomics: How financial worries affect our brain December 29, 2008

      Today people across the country are overwhelmed with the fear of loss: fear of losing one’s job, fear of losing one’s life savings, fear of losing all our money in a Bernie Madoff-sty...

    • This weekend in football December 29, 2008

      And oh what a weekend it was. From the Dallas Cowboys' spectacular crash to the grand finale of Detroit's season-long slow burn to the odd alignment of the playoff fates that put the ...

    • Hollywood in 2009: Entertainment at a crucial crossroads December 29, 2008

      Will independent film studios breathe their final breath, only to be saved by culture vultures downloading lesser known films online? Will this be the year SAG members strike, only to...