Ellen Frankman

Takeaway Senior Producer

Ellen Frankman appears in the following:

The Magic of a Snow Day, Now and Then

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Though heavy snowfalls can conjure feelings of frustration for commuters, a bed of freshly packed snow can also bring back memories of days passed when thick snow meant a day at home ...

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Drama Continues for Christie Camp

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

It looks like things may continue to worsen for New Jersey Governor Chris Christie before they improve. Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer has revealed that the Christie administration held Hu...

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Money Addiction: How Much Is Enough?

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Wealth can be a tool for investment, for development and even for change. But wealth can also be an end in itself—becoming an addiction. That was the case for Sam Polk, a former hedge...

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Communities Fight Mississippi's Diabetes Crisis

Monday, January 20, 2014

Diabetes is quickly on the raise in Mississippi, with potentially a third of the population suffering with the disease by 2030. For the underfunded and under-resourced, the state of M...

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Shunning Retirement for Start Ups

Monday, January 20, 2014

Older Americans are increasingly shunning retirement to start companies. Liz DiMarco Weinmann is 61-years-old and started Dare Force Corporation, which helps women over 40 to start ne...

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Water in America: In the Tap We Trust?

Friday, January 17, 2014

How did America’s water system get the way it is today? Martin Melosi, author of The Sanitary City and professor of history at the University of Houston, explains. Jennifer Weidhaas, ...

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West Virginians Report Illness From Water

Thursday, January 16, 2014

Since Monday, the ban on tap water following the Elk River chemical spill in West Virginia has been lifted incrementally. Though the taps have started running and the cameras have beg...

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Meeting the Standard: Tech & the Developing World

Friday, January 10, 2014

The challenges of helping large segments of the rural and undeveloped world are extremely complex. Joining The Takeaway in our fourth and final installment of our "Meeting the Standar...

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Meeting the Standard: Securing Medical Devices

Thursday, January 09, 2014

eHealth has arrived and that means more gadgets, more devices, and more apps that can look inside our bodies and our lives. And if we want a shot at accuracy—or a chance of privacy—it...

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How Olympic Figure Skaters Pick the Perfect Song

Thursday, January 09, 2014

The song that frames an Olympic figure skater's routine needs to have a variety of tempos. It needs to have emotional resonance and perhaps a little bit of edge. Most importantly, it ...

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Meeting the Standard: Safety & Nuclear Power

Wednesday, January 08, 2014

As part of our second conversation in our "Meeting the Standard" series, The Takeaway sat down with Ken Balkey, consulting engineer at Westinghouse and senior vice president of ASME S...

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After the NSA, Is the Internet Forever Changed?

Wednesday, January 08, 2014

Are the tech giants of today just friendly competitors with an enlightened sense of customer service, or just the same scary communication monoliths of old? In his new piece for Wired...

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Meeting the Standard in a World Continually Transformed by Technology

Tuesday, January 07, 2014

All this week we are going to seat you next to people who might not have risky professions, but who quietly perform jobs as engineers—setting the standards for everything from nuts an...

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An 8-Hour Day? Workdays & Weeks Vary Nationwide

Tuesday, January 07, 2014

On its 100th anniversary, we explored the legacy of the 8-hour workday. But in today’s world, the structure and moderation of that schedule seems almost mythical. Here you'll find two...

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Extremists Capture Parts of Key Iraqi Cities

Friday, January 03, 2014

Sunni militants in Iraq have captured parts of two key cities in Anbar Province, one of the bloodiest battlegrounds in the Iraq War. Nearly a third of all the Americans killed in Iraq...

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Olympian Jazmine Fenlator: From Track Start to Bobsled Pilot

Friday, January 03, 2014

Jazmine Fenlator is like a lot of Olympic athletes. She played sports growing up, excelled in high school athletics, and was recruited by a university to compete on their Division 1 T...

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Uighurs Release From Gitmo Signals Possibility for Prison's Closure

Thursday, January 02, 2014

Earlier this week the military announced the transfer of the three remaining Uighurs from the Guantanamo Bay detention center. The transfer of these prisoners could mark a significant...

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Congress Pushes for Medicare S.G.R. Reform

Tuesday, December 31, 2013

This year, Congress is determined to find a permanent solution for the dysfunctional Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate, otherwise known as the S.G.R. Enacted as part of the Balanced Bu...

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Americans on the Move

Monday, December 30, 2013

According to data from the US Census, out today, the U.S. remains one of the most mobile countries in the world. For more on the changing American map The Takeaway turns to Andrew Bev...

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Changes in Population Forecast Changes to the Electoral Map

Monday, December 30, 2013

Close to 40 million Americans migrate from one home to another every year, and when Americans move so do the lines on our electoral map. Keesha Gaskins, senior counsel in the Democrac...

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