Takeouts: airlines, The Value, Huskies basketball

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Airline Takeout: Airline Consultant and President of R.W. Mann and Company Incorporated, Robert Mann, tells us how the airline industry is being affected by the latest terrorist situation on Northwest flight 253.

The Value: In the latest installment in her series, “The Value,” Takeaway correspondent Farai Chideya follows Umesh Malhotra, a former tech entrepreneur who gave up his job to form libraries poor children in his native India.

Sports: Contributor Ibrahim Abdul-Matin picks another of his most memorable sports stories this year: the triumph of University of Connecticut’s Huskies women’s basketball team.

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