http://www.thetakeaway.org/2009/feb/26/ http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/audio.wnyc.org/takeaway/takeaway022609b.mp3 Fight for your right to buy underwear privately http://www.thetakeaway.org/2009/feb/26/fight-your-right-buy-underwear-privately/ true 6771 segment Women are prohibited from doing many things in Saudi Arabia, among them driving and being alone with a man they are not related to. How do women there decide what freedoms are worth fighting for? Reem Asaad, a finance lecturer at Dar al-Hikma Women's College in Jeddah joins The Takeaway with the sto http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/audio.wnyc.org/takeaway/takeaway022609c.mp3 Bangladesh prime minister threatens tough action on border guards http://www.thetakeaway.org/2009/feb/26/bangladesh-prime-minister-threatens-tough-action-border-guards/ http://media.wnyc.org/media/photologue/photos/tt/soldier-bangladesh-mutinying-february-26-2009.jpg true 5814 segment Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh warned that she'd take tough action against a mutiny by paramilitary border security guards if they did not surrender their weapons immediately. The violence arose from grievances on pay and treatment from army commanders. New York Times reporter Somini Sen http://media.wnyc.org/media/photologue/photos/tt/cache/soldier-bangladesh-mutinying-february-26-2009_26_square.jpg http://media.wnyc.org/media/photologue/photos/tt/cache/soldier-bangladesh-mutinying-february-26-2009_26_square.jpg http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/audio.wnyc.org/takeaway/takeaway022609d.mp3 Tiger Woods out of the rough and ready for battle http://www.thetakeaway.org/2009/feb/26/tiger-woods-mend-and-ready-battle/ http://media.wnyc.org/media/photologue/photos/tt/tiger-woods-2009-feb-26-flickr.jpg true 9829 segment After eight long months recuperating from reconstructive knee surgery, Tiger Woods returned to the green yesterday. The golf world welcomed him back with open arms as the games started at the Accenture Match Play Championship in Marana, Arizona. For more we turn to Karen Crouse, a sports reporter fo http://media.wnyc.org/media/photologue/photos/tt/cache/tiger-woods-2009-feb-26-flickr_26_square.jpg http://media.wnyc.org/media/photologue/photos/tt/cache/tiger-woods-2009-feb-26-flickr_26_square.jpg http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/audio.wnyc.org/takeaway/takeaway022609e.mp3 Fifty years after Thelonious Monk's landmark Town Hall concert http://www.thetakeaway.org/2009/feb/26/thelonious-monk/ http://media.wnyc.org/media/photologue/photos/tt/thelonious-monk-2009-feb-26-flickr-mikelove.jpg true 9714 segment Fifty years ago this week, virtuoso jazz pianist Thelonious Monk gave a landmark concert at New York City’s Town Hall. It was a coming-out for an underground jazz scene called bebop. Monk’s 1959 concert marked bebop’s shift from New York’s nightclubs to center stage. We celebrate the anniversary of http://media.wnyc.org/media/photologue/photos/tt/cache/thelonious-monk-2009-feb-26-flickr-mikelove_26_square.jpg http://media.wnyc.org/media/photologue/photos/tt/cache/thelonious-monk-2009-feb-26-flickr-mikelove_26_square.jpg http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/audio.wnyc.org/takeaway/takeaway022609f.mp3 How will the president deal with troop pull-out in Iraq? http://www.thetakeaway.org/2009/feb/26/how-will-president-deal-troop-pull-out-iraq/ true 7304 segment President Obama announced an August 2010 deadline for withdrawing troops from Iraq. Michael O'Hanlon, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution has written an op-ed piece in today's New York Times saying that "young democracies are fragile entities," and that some think it will take years to pull http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/audio.wnyc.org/takeaway/takeaway022609g.mp3 Defending grammar one apostrophe at a time http://www.thetakeaway.org/2009/feb/26/defending-grammar-one-apostrophe-time/ http://media.wnyc.org/media/photologue/photos/tt/sign-apostrophe-misuse-february-26-2009.jpg true 6431 segment Between texting, instant messages, and, LOL!, the web, grammar has been under a steady onslaught in our modern times. This slow erosion of the language is too much for some and a small but active group of language watchers have formed a grammar vigilante squad to right the grammatical wrongs, one pu http://media.wnyc.org/media/photologue/photos/tt/cache/sign-apostrophe-misuse-february-26-2009_26_square.jpg http://media.wnyc.org/media/photologue/photos/tt/cache/sign-apostrophe-misuse-february-26-2009_26_square.jpg http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/audio.wnyc.org/takeaway/takeaway022609h.mp3 The Congressional Black Caucus to meet with President Obama http://www.thetakeaway.org/2009/feb/26/congressional-black-caucus-meet-president-obama/ http://media.wnyc.org/media/photologue/photos/tt/barbarlee.jpg true 6269 segment Today President Obama meets with the 42 black lawmakers who comprise the Congressional Black Caucus. Established 40 years ago, does the Congressional Black Caucus have more legislative muscle now that the nation has its first African-American president? Or has Obama’s presidency rendered the Congres http://media.wnyc.org/media/photologue/photos/tt/cache/barbarlee_26_square.jpg http://media.wnyc.org/media/photologue/photos/tt/cache/barbarlee_26_square.jpg http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/audio.wnyc.org/takeaway/takeaway022609i.mp3 Americans won't stop squeezing the Charmin, despite the environmental impact http://www.thetakeaway.org/2009/feb/26/americans-wont-stop-squeezing-charmin-despite-environmental-impact/ true 5587 segment We are all learning to make sacrifices for the sake of the environment, but one thing Americans have a hard time cutting corners on is their toilet paper. This national desire to have soft, fluffy, and strong paper is having an environmental impact and millions of trees are harvested every year to c http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/audio.wnyc.org/takeaway/takeaway022609j.mp3 Out Take: A look at how the stimulus funds will affect early childhood education http://www.thetakeaway.org/2009/feb/26/out-takes-how-stimulus-will-affect-early-childhood-educaiton/ http://media.wnyc.org/media/photologue/photos/tt/earlychildhood__.jpg true 8428 segment Now that the American Recovery Reinvestment Act has been passed into law, the Department of Education has been given an unprecedented injection of money. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has $100 billion dollars of emergency aid at his disposal, $5 billion of which is going to early childhood educ http://media.wnyc.org/media/photologue/photos/tt/cache/earlychildhood___26_square.jpg http://media.wnyc.org/media/photologue/photos/tt/cache/earlychildhood___26_square.jpg http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/audio.wnyc.org/takeaway/takeaway022609k.mp3 Royal Bank of Scotland claims record deficit for a British company http://www.thetakeaway.org/2009/feb/26/royal-bank-scotland-claims-record-deficit-british-company/ http://media.wnyc.org/media/photologue/photos/tt/RBS-downsize-2009-feb-26-flickrOolong.jpg true 8960 segment The Royal Bank of Scotland has announced the largest annual loss in corporate history in the United Kingdom. The Royal Bank of Scotland said it will insure assets worth 325 billion pounds, or $462 billion, with the British government, who owns two-thirds of the bank. This comes after RBS. nearly col http://media.wnyc.org/media/photologue/photos/tt/cache/RBS-downsize-2009-feb-26-flickrOolong_26_square.jpg http://media.wnyc.org/media/photologue/photos/tt/cache/RBS-downsize-2009-feb-26-flickrOolong_26_square.jpg