Today's Takeaway: The Bleakest Generation? Listen Download Embed Share Share this on Facebook (Opens in a new window) Share this on Twitter (Opens in a new window) Share this via Email Top of the Hour: Fed to Keep Interest Rates at Record Low, Morning Headlines The Bleakest Generation? Oscar Pistorious: The Six Million Dollar Man? Fed Keeps Interest Rates Near Zero 'Lip Service': A Simple Smile's Dramatic Consequences A Contest to Create Jobs Top of the Hour: Riots Spread Across UK, Morning Headlines China and the US: An Economic Turning Point? Texas Republican Gov. Rick Perry Weighs Presidential Bid London Riots Spread Across Britain Lessons For London From Newark Summer Book Club: Jonathan Safran Foer's 'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close' A Londoner's Take On Social Tensions, Past, Present and Future Republicans Survive Recall Elections in Wisconsin A firefighter confronts the aftermath of Tottenham's riots this week in London. ( Christophe Maximin / flickr ) Produced by PRI and WNYC