Femi Oke
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Bye bye Crawford. Hello Hawaii.
By
John Hockenberry,
Adaora Udoji,
Femi Oke,
Leo Duran
Guest:
Mary Elizabeth Williams
Thursday, December 25 2008
Video: Femi's Fab Five
By
Jennifer Hsu,
Femi Oke
Friday, December 19 2008
The Takeaway’s news anchor Femi Oke remembers the five top stories that made the team smile in 2008.
The Singing Ambassador: Producer Kent DePinto talks about booking the U.S. ambassador for Paraguay for his newly discovered singing talent.
The Singing Ambassador: Producer Kent DePinto talks about booking the U.S. ambassador for Paraguay for his newly discovered singing talent.
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Christmas Gifts Gone Wild
By
John Hockenberry,
Adaora Udoji,
Femi Oke,
Mary Elizabeth Williams
Friday, December 12 2008
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Layoffs hit the virtual world as Reuters closes its Second Life bureau
By
John Hockenberry,
Noel King
Guests:
Femi Oke,
Eric Krangel
Wednesday, December 3 2008
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Video: Xtreme polls 2008: Getting creative with political prognostication
By
John Hockenberry,
Adaora Udoji,
Adam Hirsch,
Jennifer Hsu,
Femi Oke
Guest:
Mary Elizabeth Williams
Thursday, October 30 2008
The most accurate polls around might be a little on the unconventional side: Halloween mask sales, schoolchildren, coffee cups, and cookies.
Mary Beth Williams hits the streets of New York to look at this year's "Xtreme" polls:
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2008 CMJ Music Marathon: 1000 artists at 65 venues, all hoping to be discovered
By
Adaora Udoji,
John Hockenberry,
Femi Oke
Guest:
Jack Grace
Friday, October 24 2008
The 2008 CMJ Music Marathon has attracted more than 1,000 artists. The annual New York music festival has a national reputation for showcasing new bands. Takeaway musician Jack Grace put his twenty years of experience of playing at CMJ to good use this week. After spending a few nights checking out the groups who are getting all the music industry buzz, he reports back on this year's "it" band.
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Oil reserves bring billions into Nigeria, but also conflict with MEND
By
John Hockenberry,
Adaora Udoji,
Femi Oke,
Kent DePinto
Wednesday, September 17 2008
Nigeria is the fifth-largest supplier of crude oil to the United States. (The United States is Nigeria's biggest single export market.) Behind this lucrative business relationship, however, is a wild backdrop of conflict in Nigeria’s oil fields. The region is poor and undeveloped, but oil exports make Nigeria one of the richest countries in Africa. Militants pushing for a share of this oil wealth and environmental remediation have resorted to blowing up pipelines, taking foreign hostages and fighting government troops. Commander Fara Dagogo is a member of the biggest rebel group, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, or MEND. The commander talks with The Takeaway about why he is sabotaging his country’s oil production.
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Musician Terence Blanchard uses jazz to rebuild New Orleans
By
John Hockenberry,
Adaora Udoji,
Femi Oke
Thursday, August 28 2008
Terence Blanchard is a prolific composer and musician. He’s written film scores for over thirty movies including, “Malcolm X”, “When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts”, “Inside Man” and “Miracle At St. Anna”, Spike Lee’s upcoming film about the lives of four African-American soldiers fighting in World War 2. Three years ago Blanchard was working on the score of “Inside Man” in Los Angeles when he turned on the television and saw hurricane Katrina hit his home city of New Orleans. Recovering from the disaster and rebuilding and reinvigorating the Crescent City has been his passion ever since. Terence Blanchard joins The Takeaway on the eve of the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina hitting New Orleans, to talk about how he’s using music to rebuild the city he loves.
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The conflict in Georgia sends shudders through former Russian satellite states
By
Adaora Udoji,
Femi Oke,
Corey Takahashi,
Katherine Lanpher
Thursday, August 21 2008
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Doctors talk about the state of research and treatment at AIDS conference
By
John Hockenberry,
Adaora Udoji,
Femi Oke,
Corey Takahashi
Tuesday, August 5 2008
The 17th International AIDS Conference in Mexico City runs August 3 to 8, 2008. This year’s conference coincided with the startling revelation that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had underestimated new HIV cases by 40 percent.
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You're on candid camera... and making a music video
By
John Hockenberry,
Adaora Udoji,
Adam Hirsch,
Femi Oke
Tuesday, June 10 2008
The Takeaway speaks with British rock band The Get Out Clause. They've made innovative use of CCTV cameras in their home city of Manchester to create a music video for their new song.
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Taxis toil over oil
By
John Hockenberry,
Adaora Udoji,
Jim Colgan,
Femi Oke
Tuesday, June 10 2008
Gas prices in America have jumped to an average of more than $4 a gallon for the first time. But gas prices aren’t just a problem in the United States. The Takeaway hears from taxi drivers from around the world, whose job depends on the price of gasoline.
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Phoenix Lander reaches Mars, begins search for life in polar ice
By
John Hockenberry,
Adaora Udoji,
Jim Colgan,
Femi Oke,
Kent DePinto
Monday, May 26 2008
The Phoenix Mars Lander launched Aug. 4, 2007, in a quest to find life on Mars. After a 10-month journey, the lander successfully touched down on the planet's northern polar surface last night. CNN's technology and environment correspondent Miles O'Brien has been at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory since Friday. He joins us live from Pasadena, Calif.
Pictured: The Phoenix Lander's Delta 2 launch vehicle taking off; an artist's rendering of the lander itself, and one of the very first images sent back from the lander this morning after its successful touchdown last night.
Left to right: Sid Leach; Corby Waste, JPL; NASA/JPL/CalTech/University of Arizona
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Polar bear 'endangered' decision approaches
By
John Hockenberry,
Adaora Udoji,
Femi Oke
Tuesday, May 13 2008
The battle over global warming is being fought over a large white mammal — the polar bear. The polar bear's habitat is melting away and a collection of environmental groups including Greenpeace and the Center for Biological Diversity have come together to pressure the government to list polar bears as an endangered species.
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