Jerome Vaughn

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Moon over Kilimanjaro

Environment

Are the retreating glaciers of Mount Kilamanjaro really the iconic symbol of climate change? Joining us to explain this is Doug Hardy from the University of Massachusetts.

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Carbon emissions cap is among the creative ways to pay for government spending

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Americans won’t stop squeezing the Charmin, despite the environmental impact

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The Congressional Black Caucus to meet with President Obama

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Defending grammar one apostrophe at a time

Arts, Culture & Media
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Fifty years after Thelonious Monk’s landmark Town Hall concert

Arts, Culture & Media

Fifty years ago this week, virtuoso jazz pianist Thelonious Monk gave a landmark concert at New York City’s Town Hall. Monk’s 1959 concert marked bebop’s shift from New York’s nightclubs to center stage. Guest: Terrance McKnight.

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Bangladesh prime minister threatens tough action on border guards

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. New York Times reporter Somini Sengupta joins the show.

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Tiger Woods out of the rough and ready for battle

Sports

After eight long months recuperating from reconstructive knee surgery, Tiger Woods returned to the green yesterday. For more we turn to Karen Crouse, a sports reporter for the New York Times who is in Arizona to watch Tiger Woods first day back.

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Fight for your right to buy underwear privately

Global Politics

Reem Asaad, a finance lecturer at Dar al-Hikma Women’s College in Jeddah joins The Takeaway with the story of a campaign she is leading to defend the right of women to buy their lingerie from other women. Currently currently only men can sell women’s underwear.

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President Obama’s budget blueprint

Global Politics

For a preview of President Obama’s national budget outline, we are joined by Jay Newton-Small, a reporter for Time Magazine. The Takeaway discusses how his health care plan and his projections for the budget actually match up.