UPDATE 5:30 p.m.

Alex Goldmark here picking up the night shift duties today. Not much to update from Anna's post (except the South African goalie getting a red card on the soccer front). In addition to what she laid out, we'll also have look back at 50 years of To Kill a Mockingbird with the actress who played Scout in the film version of the book. 

Elsewhere in the news, San Francisco passed a new law requiring stores that sell cell phones to post information on how much radiation the devices emit. We're finding out some answers to the basic health and science questions behind this kind of consumer protection law and we'll have that for you in the show tomorrow as well. 

Anna Sale on the day shift.

First off, how about that Swiss soccer team? That got the Takeaway newsroom buzzing this afternoon. Takeaway Washington Correspondent Todd Zwillich interrupted all of our post-game chatter and got us back on task with a call in from the White House, where he's covering President Obama's meeting with BP CEO Tony Hayward and BP's announcement that it will set up a $20 billion escrow account to cover damage and losses from the spill. It got us thinking about the U.S. government's relationship with corporations, and how that's changed over time.

We're also digging into this report that argues that colleges are failing to meet the needs of the United States workforce. There will be a shortage of 3 million people with post-secondary degrees by 2018, it argues, and higher education needs to do more to emphasize employability. This gets to a fundamental question: What is education for? Is it about career readiness or personal growth? The report comes out the same day that the New York Times ran this fascinating column about liberal arts courses Bell System offered its workers 56 years ago.

Finally, in our weekly tech segment, we'll hear how video games are changing from Tom Bisell, who is attending the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles this week. Apparently, we'll soon be able to put the controllers down and play video games with our facial expressions. There are also some fascinating innovations happening in video game storytelling. There are fundamental shifts happening in how they work, from something that's relayed to us to something that we create stories ourselves.