In Iraq there have been two wars. The focus of the first was was to capture or kill the enemy, The focus of the current one is to pick up the pieces of the invasion. The Takeaway talks with two veterans who fought two very different wars and are dealing with the aftermath in different ways.
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Friday marks the fifth anniversary of a law responsible for recovering some peace and quiet in your life: The National Do Not Call Registry. The Takeaway listens to what we've been missing.
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This was a weekend of Biblical proportion for Democrats. The Democratic National Committee rendered a Solomonic decision, seating half the Florida and Michigan delegates. Manna rained on Hillary Clinton in Puerto Rico, showering her with a 2-to-1 victory over her rival, Barack Obama. And Obama made an exodus from his church, Trinity United Church of Christ.
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Since 2001, when a federal funding freeze crippled research into the use of human embryonic stem cells to treat a host of congenital and degenerative conditions, molecular biologists have searched for a viable alternative. Now, they may have found a way. By reprogramming adult skin cells, researchers have produced stem cells that bypass the political and ethical stumbling blocks. But all is not perfect. In recent studies, the cells produced tumors in mice.
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The future Donald Trumps of the world will soon need the help of a palm reader to ascend the corporate ladder. In an effort to finger cheats, aspiring CEOs will be screened by a high-tech identity device, known as a “palm vein” scan, before taking the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT) as early as this fall.
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Two weeks ago, long-serving Massachusetts senator Ted Kennedy was diagnosed with a glioma, a rare cancerous brain tumor. Yesterday, he underwent extensive brain surgery and now the senator faces radiation treatments and chemotherapy. The Takeaway talks with Dr. Bernadine Healy, former director of the National Institutes of Health, to get a glimpse of what lies ahead for the senator's health. Dr. Healy should know — she was diagnosed with a glioma almost 10 years ago.
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Jason Burnett, a former Environmental Protection Agency official, told the Senate's Environment and Public Works committee that the White House pressured the EPA in 2007 to deny climate regulation that would have required a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from cars in California. Burnett's testimony contradicts earlier statements from EPA chief Stephen Johnson, who said the denial was solely his decision.
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Gregory Kable

On Tuesday, Illinois Senator Barack Obama greeted voters as the de facto Democratic nominee. What has seemed like a never-ending race culminated, at a rally in St. Paul, Minn., in the same arena that will host the Republican National Convention in September.
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As South Africa gears up to toast its favorite citizen, Nelson Mandela, The Takeaway celebrates the former president and anti-apartheid icon on his 90th birthday.
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In the latest aftershock from the housing crash, lenders are scaling back home-equity credit lines. It's a move that affects all homeowners — those with good and bad credit alike. Paul Owers, a real estate reporter at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, explains.
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With demand growing for tougher immigration enforcement and a flurry of new state laws addressing the issue, local police are stepping up and arresting illegal immigrants. Damien Cave, the Miami Bureau Chief for the New York Times, has been tracking these local crackdowns.
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With food and gas prices soaring, eating out has become a luxury. But a growing movement, with its pay-what-you-can policy, is making a trip to the restaurant affordable—and for some, free. The Takeaway talks to Denise Cerrata, a pioneering foodie with civic-minded flair. Five years ago she opened a restaurant that lets people work for a meal or donate whatever they can afford.
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This was a busy week for space news watchers. The GLAST gamma-ray space observatory blasted off, the International Astronomical Union dubbed dwarf planets "plutoids" in honor of the once-planet Pluto, and the Phoenix Mars Lander scooped up Martian dirt. The Takeaway goes behind these headlines with astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium and host of NOVA ScienceNOW.
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When it comes to the issues, Barack Obama and John McCain couldn’t be more different. But when it comes to literature, the two are remarkably the same. Each cites Hemingway’s “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” as a favorite read. The Takeaway looks at what this book says about the presidential hopefuls and the power of great literature to reach across the aisle.
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A London-based advertising campaign, aimed at generating gay travel to the United States is selling South Carolina as “so gay.” South Carolina officials are saying “no way.” The Takeaway talks to the ad man behind this controversial campaign.
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Dark matter, one of cosmology’s most curious mysteries, has yet to be seen. But theorists have good reason to believe that it exists, and that galaxies, stars, and planets could never have formed without the gravitational attraction that dark matter exerts.
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In Cedar Rapids, Iowa — among the hardest hit by flooding so far — the water that forced nearly 24,000 people from their homes is starting to recede. Still, thousands of residents remain unsure as to when they can return to their home for good. The Takeaway talks to one of those uncertain residents, Mary Dickinson.
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Don't know what movie to see this weekend? The Takeaway is here to help. It's the Mother of All Trailers. This week: Get Smart, The Love Guru, Brick Lane and Kit Kittredge.
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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is following through with a runoff election despite mounting international appeals to call it off. The Takeaway asks veteran journalist Andrew Meldrum for his read on the election and Zimbabwe’s future. He’ll have no end of insight: He lived there for 23 years until he was exiled.
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As floods reach record levels in the Midwest, thousands of people have been displaced. Homes, businesses and crops have been destroyed. Are humans partly to blame for this increased risk of flooding? The Takeaway turns to Robert Holmes, National Flood Coordinator for the U.S. Geological Survey, for the answers.
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A new study says cancer patients nearing the end of life want the truth. But it's not all that simple. Everyday, and with every patient, Dr. John Marshall has to reexamine what it means to tell this truth.
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Sue Williams

China's "Gen-Xers" are the first to grow up in a hybrid society of communism and capitalism. The Takeaway talks with filmmaker Sue Williams, whose new FRONTLINE documentary, "Young and Restless in China," looks at this generation coming of age in China, a generation that will be leading the country in the years to come.
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There is a new enemy on the battlefields of Iraq and it's too small to be seen. It's Acinetobacter baumannii, a drug-resistant killer microbe.
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