A new demographic study from the University of New Hampshire finds that the demographic makeup of the U.S. is changing most rapidly among babies and young children, with 2010 on track to see more babies of color born than white babies. The study cites immigration, high fertility rates among recent immigrant communities (and comparatively lower fertility rates among non-Hispanic whites) and details the counties that have already become so-called "majority-minority" areas.

• SPORTS TAKEOUT: Los Angeles Angels center fielder Torri Hunter, about the racial makeup of Major League Baseball, are causing controversy in some quarters but leading others to defend Hunter's point of view. We talk more to Ibrahim Abdul-Matin about the dust-up.
• YOUR RESPONSES: The Takeaway moves away from a  week long discussion on genius to hear a little bit about government gridlock and hear your suggestions to fix it.  But you still had a lot to say about genius, including some fun facts about the relative IQ's of some of our nation's top leaders.

Vice President Joe Biden spoke in Israel this morning in a speech that was billed as one similar to President Obama's address to the Muslim world while in Cairo last year. But Biden's visit to Israel wasn't without incident.

Chile's new president, Sebastian Pinera will be sworn in today, inheriting leadership of a government and a country still in natural disaster recovery.

Every year, the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas, brings together a mix of musicians, film makers and technologists. This year's gathering starts tomorrow, and the docket includes eyeglass cellphones and game-playing robots.

It may be a swing state, but Miami Herald columnist and author Carl Hiaasen says that if the nation's politics follow the same path as his home state of Florida, we all might as well move to the Bahamas. It's hard to argue against the assertion that Florida's political climate is getting weird — just this week, Governor Charlie Crist took a swipe at his competitor for senate Marco Rubio by accusing him of back-waxing. Hiaasen explains why Florida is on the cutting edge of political innovation when it comes to gall, graft and gripes. 

FINANCIAL TAKEOUT: A new website will actually allow you to make money speculating on the financial gains, or losses, of films on the big screen. New York Times finance reporter Louise Story tells us more.

Two months after a massive earthquake in Haiti left 230,000 dead and more than a million homeless, we've been asking what listeners think Haiti needs from the world right now. We got responses from all over the country, but especially in Miami, the center of the country's Haitian immigrant population.

Governor David Paterson is under investigation for potentially misusing his power. A representative just resigned (after allegations that he groped a male staffer). Another representative has stepped down from his committee post because of an ethics investigation. And to top it all off, the state government seems paralyzed in the face of an upcoming budget deadline. But how bad is it really?

For almost thirty years, drivers in South Florida have been wondering about "Naked Carpet Guy," and last November, they voted to have WLRN's "Under the Sun" series find out. 

All week, The Takeaway has been discussing genius with David Shenk, author of a new book called "The Genius In All of Us." Today, the conversation takes a turn. Math educator, John Mighton, joins the program to answer this question: On the road to genius, can failure be any help? Even Einstein famously struggled in academics before becoming one of the world's most revered geniuses. 

Bill Gates is no longer the king of the hill when it comes to the world's richest people. Forbes Magazine has released its new list of the world's biggest billionaires, and William Gates III is in the number two slot, behind Carlos Slim Helú, a self-made telecom mogul from Mexico. Slim, worth $53.5 billion, is the first man from a developing country to top the list.