Today's Takeaways: Jimmy Fallon's Success, Maria Bamford's Comedy, and Steinbeck's Lost Story

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Friday, November 07, 2014

A photo of U.S. novelist John Steinbeck in the 1930s. (Hulton Archive/Getty)

1. A Story of Success in a Tough Economy | 2. What Jimmy Fallon Teaches Us About Keeping a Job | 3. Mass Protests Over Mexico’s Missing Students | 4. Remembering The Fall of The Berlin Wall | 5. For Maria Bamford, Mental Illness & Comedy Collide | 6. Never-Published Steinbeck Story Surfaces

The Keys to Success in a Tough Economy

The overall unemployment rate dropped to 5.8 percent in October. One small business owner explains how he's had success in the face of a tough economy.

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What Jimmy Fallon Teaches Us About Keeping a Job

How did Alexander the Great, YouTube tycoon Michelle Phan, and the Tonight Show host climb to the top in less time than it takes most of us to get a promotion?

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Mass Protests Over Mexico’s Missing Students

There have been mass protests in Mexico this week over the slow pace of an investigation of 43 missing student teachers in the southern state of Guerrero on September 26th.

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Remembering The Fall of The Berlin Wall

The Berlin Wall simply melted away 25 years ago this Sunday. Brick by brick, people grasped the wall with their dreams and dared to pull it down.

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For Maria Bamford, Mental Illness & Comedy Collide

Maria Bamford often plays an exaggerated version of herself. But she's also navigating a complicated, disturbing, and not so funny world of mental illness.

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The Five Best Things Online This Week

Every Friday, Sean Rameswaram, a producer with Studio 360 and host of the Sideshow podcast, rounds up the week in internet phenomena.

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Never-Published Steinbeck Story Surfaces

A lost story by the literary great will be published for the first time today in The Strand magazine.

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News Quiz | Week of Nov. 7, 2014

Be smarter than your pals. Prep your dinner party factoids. Gauge your knowledge about what happened this week, as heard on The Takeaway.

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