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Newly appointed caretaker Prime Minister Panagiotis Pikramenos, left, listens to Greece President Karolos Papoulias during their meeting at the Presidential palace in Athens. (Photo by John Kolesidis / Pool / AP)

Pineapple prescription

A rural doctor faced with a massive public health problem — kids going deaf from ear infections — finds the cure in a box of fruit.

The Global Mail

Let’s do lunch

The Global Mail

Violence Against Women Act passes House vote

The Violence Against Women Act breezed through the Congress in previous years, but it’s suddenly a heavy lift. The GOP House passed its version of the bill on a largely party-line vote.

Christian Science Monitor

Immigrant farmworkers face sexual abuse

Huffington Post

Greece: caretaker prime minister appointed

A senior judge was sworn in to head Greece’s government until the June elections, as the debt-crippled country lurches through a political crisis that threatens its membership in the eurozone.

USA TODAY

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Eurozone crisis

(Guardian)

Business

Kennedy curse: a political family’s troubled life

Along with political fame and power, tragedy has befallen the Kennedy clan for decades. The death of Mary Richardson Kennedy is another sad event in the long arc of the Kennedy family’s story.

ABC News

Remembering Mary Kennedy

TMZ

Health policy challenges lie ahead for legal immigrants

The Obama administration’s drive to cut down on America’s uninsured is about to get multilingual. Like U.S. citizens, legal immigrants will be subject to the individual mandate.

Politico

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A surfer exits the water on Barra da Tijuca beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by Felipe Dana / AP)	Annette Robertson explores the artificial reef Spiegel Grove in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, off Key Largo, Fla. (Photo by Stephen Frink / Florida Keys News Bureau / AP)	An Indian woman peers out from her veil during a protest in Allahabad, India. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh / AP)

NATION

Census: Minorities now surpass whites in US births

For the first time, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than half the children born in the U.S., capping decades of heady immigration growth that is now slowing.

CBS News

New US housing construction in April exceeds forecasts

Builders in the U.S. broke ground on more homes than anticipated in April, indicating that residential real estate industry is stabilizing.

San Francisco Chronicle

George Lucas proposes affordable housing plan

CNNMoney

Army opens jobs in combat battalions to female soldiers

For nine Army brigades, female soldiers are moving into new jobs in units that once were all male. The move comes as the Army loosens restrictions meant to keep women away from the battlefield.

ABC News

POLITICS

Child care costs derail women’s careers

At a time when women’s issues have become a political football, many states have been chipping away at funds aimed at supporting working mothers.

Msnbc.com

US nuclear emergency plans panned

The nation’s nuclear power regulators have overhauled community emergency planning for the first time in more than 30 years.

CBS News

‘Joe the Plumber’ race — a ‘microcosm’ of 2012 politics

In Ohio, a new congressional district that stretches along Lake Erie between Toledo and Cleveland has become a political portrait of polarized America.

NPR

BUSINESS

Toning sneakers don‘t give users Kardashian’s bottom

Consumers who bought Skechers toning shoes and the claims they’d lose weight and add muscle will be eligible for refunds under a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission.

USA TODAY

Facebook said to raise size of IPO to 421 million shares

Facebook Inc. is boosting the number of shares for sale in its initial public offering to 421.2 million, allowing the world’s most popular social network to raise as much as $16 billion.

Bloomberg

California, 9th largest economy in world, resorts to austerity

California is slashing spending to avoid a Greek-style default. After years watching his state fall deeper into the red, Gov. Jerry Brown unveiled the ultimate in austerity budgets.

The Independent

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Melvyn C. Goldstein awarded 2012 Frank and Dorothy Humel Hovorka Prize

Melvyn C. Goldstein, the first American to earn a doctorate in Tibetan anthropology, will receive the 2012 Frank and Dorothy Humel Hovorka Prize.

Shambhala Sun

St. Clair church softball league is split over bisexual pastor

The pastors of three churches playing in a softball league consisting of six church teams refused to play against a particular church, citing sexual orientation of that church’s new pastor as the problem.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

EDUCATION

Joplin, Mo., poised to rebuild tornado-damaged schools

One year after a tornado nearly devastated the community, Joplin, Mo., is preparing to break ground on new facilities that match the school district’s ambitions for the education it wants to provide its students.

Education Week

Schools receive additional funds for storm shelters

Joplin Globe

Higher education linked to longer life

Education may not only improve a person’s finances. A new report found that people who have a bachelor’s degree or higher live about nine years longer than those who do not graduate from high school.

USA TODAY

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Higher education linked to better health

(TIME)

Healthland

The radical new humanities Ph.D.

At Stanford University, professors have proposed a reduction in the time taken to graduate by Ph.D. candidates in the humanities, and to prepare them for careers within and beyond the academy.

Inside Higher Ed

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Albert Einstein

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GOOD NEWS

More senior living centers allow pets

Hundreds of retirement communities across the country now allow seniors to live with their pets, and more keep house pets that provide benefits without the responsibility.

San Francisco Chronicle

Doctors restore some hand function to quadriplegic patient

In bypassing the hand’s original and damaged connection to the injured spine, a medical team effectively used upper arm nerves to rewire a fresh connection.

U.S. News & World Report

Surgery allows quadriplegic to move hand

CBS News

FDA panel recommends home HIV test

A federal advisory committee unanimously approved over-the-counter sale of a rapid HIV test, acknowledging the need for new tools against an epidemic that is driven largely by people unaware of their status.

Philadelphia Inquirer