Hsi-Chang Lin

• RUSSIA TAKEOUT: Doku Umarov, a former Chechen separatist has claimed responsibility for the two sucide bombings on Moscow's subway earlier this week. In a four-minute video, he addressed Russians, saying, "I promise you the war will come to your street, and you will feel it in your own lives and on your own skin." The BBC's Sarah Rainsford joins us from Moscow with more on Umarov.
• LISTENERS RESPOND: Are you tired of the 9 to 5 grind? Do you wish you could have more flexible office hours? Our listeners certainly do. We hear your suggestions for better and more productive ways to get through the work day.

Census workers have begun to go out into the streets to get an accurate number of homeless, itinerant and otherwise "uncountable" citizens. Meanwhile, we go to India, where the world's biggest census starts today as the country aims to get an accurate picture of their 1.2 billion citizens.

• WASHINGTON TAKEOUT: President Obama announced yesterday that he would lift some bans on off-shore drilling in a future, comprehensive environmental bill he hopes to get to congress before the 2010 elections. Takeaway Washington correspondent, Todd Zwillich, explains the politics behind the move. 
• FINANCE TAKEOUT: 2009 was a record year for the nation’s top hedge fund managers. Louise Story, Wall Street and finance reporter for our partner The New York Times, gives us a sneak peek at surprising earnings data that shows that the top 25 earning managers pulled in a collective $25 billion last year alone.

• FINANCE TAKEOUT: As a natural resource, crude oil is arguably the keystone of our entire global economy. It seeps in to the cost of every aspect of our travel, business, development, production and even how we farm our food. New York Times Wall Street and finance reporter Louise Story says that while it’s been an historically tumultuous decade for international oil trade that,  these days, the price of oil is staying relatively still.
• SPORTS TAKEOUT: Last night UConn took on Florida State University and the University of Kentucky went up against Oklahoma. Sports correspondent Ibrahim Abdul-Matin, recaps last night's women's Final Four, in the NCAA Basketball Tournament.

When 28-year-old Jerry Lemaine of Long Island was told to plead guilty to ownership of a misdemeanor amount of marijuana posession, he probably didn't realize that it would result in his deportation to his family's home country of Haiti. Why is the American legal system levying such harsh penalties on non-citizens for minor infractions?

In the 1920s, developments in physics from relativity to quantum mechanics were front page news stories. Only today have scientists been able to build machines able to test theories thought up decades ago that predict what matter and energy look like in extreme states. Scientists in Switzerland came a small step closer to testing some of those theories, as the Large Hadron Collider started smashing particles yestserday.

• FINANCIAL TAKEOUT:  Global economists have been examining the frightening harbingers of Greece's economic fall, but the causes may be all too familiar to the U.S. American economies may be dangerously close to experiencing the same failings that we saw in Greece. Louise Story, Wall Street and finance reporter for The New York Times, explains which states might suffer the worst.
• SPORTS TAKEOUT: Takeaway Sports contributor Ibrahim Abdul-Matin analyzes the NIT Tournament which begins tomorrow.  Some call the NIT the "other" College Basketball Tournament and Abdul-Matin wonders if that stigma is still deserved.

• TAKEOUT: Chicago Public Radio's Rob Wildeboer reports on the difficulty that a Chicago federal court is having as it determines how to prosecute Tahawwur Rana, who was accused of involvement in the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai. Prosecutors have a considerable amount of information that they say will help tie Rana to the crime - but the evidence is classified.
  
• LISTENER TAKEOUT:  Yesterday, we asked whether the American education system could take a lesson or two from highly performing schools overseas. Listeners from around the country called in and posted on the web with your takes on that question. While all of the advice is good, some of our listener's innovations will surprise you.

• FINANCIAL TAKEOUT: To paraphrase the Vice President's now immortal exaltation, President Obama's signing of an historic health care bill into law last week was "a big deal." But some of the nation's biggest lobbyists want to make sure that legislative lightening doesn't strike twice. Louise Story, New York Times Wall Street and finance reporter tells us how pro-business lobby groups are preparing to lock horns with the Obama Administration over national finance reform.
• LISTENER TAKEOUT: We hear your reactions on the sexual abuse cases rocking the Catholic Church, along with the prospect of living to see your 100th birthday.

President Obama made a surprise visit to Afghanistan Sunday, during which he spoke to American troops and had a meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai. To the troops, Obama said his "main job here today is to say thank you on behalf of the entire American people." The visit comes days after the president announced a nuclear deal with Russia and as Iraq forms a new government. How is the Obama administration's foreign policy evolving in its second year?

It's long been believed that the average human life expectancy is very close to 85 years old, but new research from Duke University says that may be an antiquated figure.

This week Google shut down its search operations in mainland China. Now Chinese Googler’s are getting sent to a Hong Kong domain, but it's unclear how much longer that will last. So why did the search giant pull out of a country that seems to represent so much economic opportunity for other multinational corporations? New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof and Brookings Institution analyst Kenneth Lieberthal try to answer.

When the House of Representatives narrowly voted to approve a Senate-passed health care bill, 32 million Americans came closer to receiving medical coverage; but, what does this mean for the thousands of American hospitals tasked with treating them?

Takeaway producer Anna Sale is accompanying a medical mission in Haiti. At a hospital in Milot, 75 miles north of Port-au-Prince, many of the injured have been transferred from the capital. For some of the patients there, the biggest fear comes at the prospect of leaving.

Last night the House of Representatives voted on an historic national health insurance reform bill. A hundred years in the making, this is going to have deep and lasting effects on every man, woman and child in America.

Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) has served in the House of Representatives for over 50 years.  At the beginning of every session of Congress, Dingell has introduced the same national health care reform bill: the same bill that his father, also a Representative from from Michigan's 15th district, started introducing in 1943. Like most Democrats on the Hill today, Dingell says he's heartened by the current state of health care reform ... though he'll readily admit that the current compromise bill is far from perfect.

20-year-old Omar Ramos-Lopez was arrested and charged with “computer intrusion charges” after immobilizing more than 100 vehicles across Austin, Texas. He wreaked a small amount of havoc on computerized cars across the city simply by hacking into them via his home computer.

A new study in wealth accumulation reveals a direct link between race and level of wealth, with African American women ranking way below white women. The Insight Center for Community Economic Development shows that the average single white woman has about $4,100 in assets while the average African American woman has saved only $100.

More tragic news from the drug-war torn nation south of our border in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. On Saturday, three people with ties to the American consulate were shot and two killed in a drive-by shooting.

• FINANCIAL TAKEOUT: There has been a lot of talk about financial reform, but today, there will be some action. Connecticut's Senator Chris Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, unveils a new broad financial reform bill today. But will it be enough, and will it have support it needs to pass?  New York Times financial reporter Louise Story takes a look.
  
• SPORTS TAKEOUT: The NCAA Tournament brackets have been set, and Kansas University is the number one overall seed. Sports contributor Ibrahim Abdul-Matin talks college basketball, and helps us understand the major players at this stage in the game.