Segments From This Episode

• The U.S. car industry’s downfall: Putting numbers before design

  by Kai Ryssdal

  Bob Lutz, former vice chairman of General Motors, discusses why U.S. carmakers find themselves in their current predicament and why he never became CEO of GM.

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• The supermarket solution

  by Gregory Warner

  How the art and science of selling food can be redirected to fight obesity.

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• How Mexican cartels get drugs across the border

  by Devin Browne

  Most illegal drugs cross into the Southwestern U.S. Devin Browne brings us this look at one particular drug route across the Mexican border.

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• President Obama wants to jumpstart jobs

  by John Dimsdale

  Obama is pressing tourism and green energy jobs. His jobs czar, GE's Jeff Immelt, says easing visa applications and upping energy efficiency would help. Really?

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• Facebook fatigue may be setting in

  by Steve Henn

  A new report shows that the number of Facebook users in the last month has fallen.

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• Companies gird for cyber attack fallout

  by Stacey Vanek Smith

  

  Companies invest in preventing data breaches. But with successful cyber attacks all but inevitable, how are they preparing for the consequences?

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• Kickstarting jobs tougher than you think

  by Mitchell Hartman

  Some economists say it will take much more sweeping measures to create jobs, things like an even bigger round of stimulus. But they aren't likely to happen.

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