Eat It

Playing politics, plate by plate.

Meat returns to the menu in time for Thanksgiving dinner.

Not So Funny Money

Card Game

This week’s FRONTLINE on PBS, “The Card Game”, takes an in-depth look at the consumer loan industry, in particular the enticements that cost Americans thousands of dollars in penalties, and land many in significant debt. New York Times and FRONTLINE correspondent Lowell Bergman offers a glimpse.

Audio: BBC, PRI & WBUR's Here & Now. Host: Robin Young.

Billionaire Bust

The biggest insider trading scheme involving a hedge fund has sor far found twenty people from across corporate America have now been charged or arrested in connection with the case. Joanna Chung, U.S. financial correspondent for the Financial Times, says the scandal now involves some of the country's best-known companies.

Audio: NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday, November 22. Host: Liane Hansen.

Augmented Reality

Futuristic films like "The Terminator" and "Minority Report" imagine a time in which the virtual world can be projected onto the every day physical world.

This technology, known as augmented reality, will be commercially available in the form of glasses sooner than we think, says Jamais Cascio, of the Institute for the Future.

But, he warns, don’t necessarily believe they’ll be rose colored.

Audio: WNYC's On The Media Host: Brooke Gladstone.

Urban Bee-Keeping

A Washington DC Hotel has become another outpost of 'Urban Bee-Keeping'. As the bee population declines, keeping urban bees is growing worldwide. Wyatt Andrews reports.


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Previously we've featured a similar trend in France: Le Miel de Paris.

Rooms by the Hour

Trends that start in Japan do have a habit of spreading to the rest of the world... Think Walkman, karaoke, anime, digital watches and Pokemon. And now, what are euphemistically known as leisure hotels.

These ae hotel rooms, often with amazing themes, that you can rent for very short periods. There is, for example, a Christmas hotel in Osaka. And if you only want the hotel room for a few hours - why pay for a whole night?

BBC World Business News' Alex Ritson asked how it works.



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