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A looming fuel crisis leads to a boon for North Dakotans

Friday, August 01, 2008

There’s an oil boom in North Dakota, and the wealth under ground is creating millionaires.

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Fifty years later, the finish line is still the moon for NASA

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

It's the 50th anniversary of a great proxy battle fought in outer space. In 1958, President Eisenhower created NASA so the United States could compete with the USSR in space technology. Today, there’s a new space race on — between China and America. The finish line, 50 years later, is still the moon.

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In audio: Ford pardons Nixon

Monday, July 28, 2008

With President Bush facing a pile of applications for pardons, The Takeaway goes back to one of the most famous and controversial pardons a president has ever made.

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Celebrating the legacy of Sheila Barrett, the first woman to announce at the BBC

Monday, July 28, 2008

By Kent DePinto

Seventy-five years ago, on July 28, 1933, Sheila Barrett became the first woman to make a national broadcast on BBC Radio. The anniversary got us here at the Takeaway thinking, how have American women shaped the tone and distinction of the radio waves?

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The FBI is 100 years old

Friday, July 25, 2008

John Fox is the most wanted person at the FBI this week. Not because he's a criminal, but because July 26, 2008, is the 100th anniversary of the FBI and he's the Bureau's only historian. If it happened in the FBI, Fox knows about it.

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Baseball honors Walter O’Malley, who moved the Dodgers to L.A. 50 years ago

Friday, July 25, 2008

This year marks the Los Angeles Dodgers' 50th anniversary in the City of Angels. The architect of the team's move from Brooklyn, Walter O’Malley, will be inducted, posthumously, into the National Baseball Hall of Fame this weekend. New York writer Pete Hamill said O’Malley was the only man Brooklynites hated more than Hitler.

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Since the Cold War, some walls have come down, but some walls have come up too

Friday, July 25, 2008

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Barack Obama evokes JFK in Berlin stop on mid-campaign world tour

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

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Nelson Mandela turns 90

Friday, July 18, 2008

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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David Wall Rice: A million conversations with Nelson Mandela

Friday, July 18, 2008

By David Wall Rice : Takeaway Contributor

The thing I remember most vividly about beginning my internship at TransAfrica Forum, the foreign policy lobbyist group founded in 1977 to pressure the U.S. Government to do right by Africa and the African Diaspora, was that I didn't want to be there.

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The revolutionary phones before the iPhone

Friday, July 11, 2008

Apple’s iPhone 3G goes on sale this morning. This iPod, GPS mapping system and wireless Internet telephone is generating some serious buzz. But is it worth all the hype?

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Uday Hussein's cars and other examples of egregious looting

Wednesday, July 09, 2008

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Echoes of the 1970's in the U.S. economy and the U.S. presidential race

Tuesday, July 08, 2008

Guest: Gideon Rachman, Financial Times

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Red, white, black and blue: Patrik Henry Bass on July 4's "multiple meanings"

Friday, July 04, 2008

Americans have widely varying interpretations of the Fourth of July. For some, it’s a day off from work. For others, it’s a sacred day, commemorating the American colonies declaration of independence from England. In one of his famous moments of oratory, former slave Frederick Douglass offered another take: "This Fourth of July is yours, not mine.” The July 5, 1852, speech was called "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro."

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Cold War beginnings: The Berlin Blockade in audio

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Today marks the 60-year anniversary of the Cold War’s first major crisis: The Blockade of Berlin. Angered by an allied plan to reform Germany’s worthless Reichsmark into the Deutschemark, Soviet leader Josef Stalin cut off all roads and railways into West Berlin.

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Amelia Earhart, pioneer for women, crossed the Atlantic 80 years ago today

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

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Remembering Robert F. Kennedy and a message of hope, 40 years after assassination

Thursday, June 05, 2008

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Remembering Tiananmen

Wednesday, June 04, 2008

When the smoke cleared in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, an untold number of protesters were dead in what later became known as a massacre. They gathered to protest for democracy, but records of their efforts are absent in official Chinese history books.

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A reporter's view of Ted Kennedy's politics

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

News of Ted Kennedy's brain tumor sent shockwaves across Washington ... where he has served as the senator from Massachusetts for more than 45 years. Kevin Cullen, columnist for the Boston Globe, says that for many people in Massachusetts this might signal the end of an era.

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An audio history of long-serving senator Ted Kennedy

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

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