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A Tea Party supporter looks at some of the t-shirts on display during the Tea Party Express rally at the state Republican convention in Santa Clara, Calif. (Photo by Tony Avelar / AP)

In hard times, lured into trade school and debt

One fast-growing American industry has become a beneficiary of the recession: for-profit colleges and trade schools, where anxious students borrow aggressively to pay tuition that can exceed $30,000 a year.

New York Times

Schools spar over stimulus funding

Herald Tribune

Edible gardens are sprouting all over

People are eating up the idea of growing their own food. Economic hard times have sent millions of Americans foraging for ways to eat more economically, and they're doing it by growing their own food.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Coffee Party brews up rival for Tea Party

A grassroots political grouping that has emerged in recent months in opposition to the conservative Tea Party movement has been holding its first national day of meetings in the U.S.

BBC

'Coffee party': Not far from 'tea party' message?

Christian Science Monitor

Coffee Party founder wants common grounds

NPR

Iraq vote count too close to call

With early results representing only a fraction of the vote and no figures in from areas like Basra, overall results from Iraq's general elections were too close to call six days after the March 7 vote.

Al Jazeera

Innovation ruled Game Developers

Motion controls and social gaming were hot topics at the Game Developers Conference, the annual convention of designers, programmers and executives.

San Francisco Chronicle

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We like to move it, move it

Toronto Star

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A woman jumps over a puddle in a driving rain in lower Manhattan, in New York. (Photo by Peter Morgan / AP)	Ireland's Tomas O' Leary scores a try against Wales in the Six Nations rugby match at Croke Park, Dublin, Ireland. (Photo by Peter Morrison / AP)	Christine Dentel greets tens of thousands of people during the spring festival in Eisenach, Germany. (Photo by Jens Meyer / AP)

NATION

Ireland frees American woman in terrorist plot

Jamie Paulin-Ramirez of Colorado had been arrested in an alleged plot to kill cartoonist Lars Vilks, after following radical Islamists to Ireland. Her parents await word of her and their grandson, 6.

ABC News

Storms probably hurt production, housing

Blizzards on the East Coast and harsh weather in other parts of the U.S. probably impeded manufacturing and construction in February, representing a temporary setback to the recovery, economists said.

Bloomberg

New fraud cases point to lapses in Iraq

Federal investigators looking into corruption involving reconstruction in Iraq say they have opened more than 50 new cases by scrutinizing large cash transactions made in the nearly $150 billion rebuilding program.

New York Times

POLITICS

FCC plan for Internet sets up battle

The Federal Communications Commission is proposing a 10-year plan that will transform the nation's media and technology priorities by establishing high speed Internet as the country’s dominant communication network.

New York Times

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FCC chairman outlines broadband plan

CNET News

Kissinger hospitalized in South Korea

Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was hospitalized after he complained of stomach pains.

MSNBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Biologists find first confirmed species of monogamous frog

Amphibians may be a love 'em and leave 'em class, but one frog species defies the norm

ScienceDaily

Ancient shipwrecks a wonder of the 'Baltic Triangle'

A dozen ancient shipwrecks have been discovered in the Baltic Sea, just east of Sweden. The well-preserved ships are hundreds of years old.

NPR

HEALTH

FDA issues strong warning on blood thinner Plavix

The Food and Drug Administration is adding its strongest warning to the label for Plavix, cautioning that some patients do not respond to the blockbuster blood thinner.

San Francisco Chronicle

Brain scan 'can read thoughts'

British scientists from University College London found they could differentiate brain activity linked to different memories and thereby identify thought patterns by using functional magnetic resonance imaging.

Sydney Morning Herald

ENVIRONMENT

Gene mapping of algae biofuel species done

Using green algae to produce hydrocarbon oil for biofuel production is nothing new; nature has been doing so for hundreds of millions of years.

ScienceDaily

Ivory and bluefin tuna top agenda at UN wildlife summit

Sales of ivory and a possible ban on trading bluefin tuna top the agenda for the meeting in Doha, Qatar.

BBC

SPORTS

Vettel edges Massa, Alonso for Bahrain Grand Prix pole

Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull will start Formula One's season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix from pole position, while Michael Schumacher's comeback with Mercedes will start from a disappointing seventh place.

USA TODAY

D.C. football team gets female coach

The football players at Calvin Coolidge Senior High School, Mayor Adrian Fenty and a room full of cheering staff needed only one word to describe her: coach.

San Francisco Chronicle

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Abuse claims sweep Church in Europe

From Ireland to Germany, Europe's many victims of child abuse in the Roman Catholic church are finally breaking social taboos and confronting the clergy to face its demons.

MSNBC

Vatican: Pope being set up over sex abuse case

Guardian

Muslim families seek to join in legal fight over religion at school

Seeking to protect their rights, a group of Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy students and parents want to join the lawsuit between the American Civil Liberties Union and the school.

Star Tribune

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GOOD NEWS

Dance troupe brings grace to school for the blind

One of New Zealand's top dance troupes, the 15-member Black Grace, visited the Perkins School for the Blind and taught a customized dance class for 16 eager students at a Boston school.

Boston Herald

Free dental clinic brightens smiles for uninsured patients

An out-of-work nursing assistant got in line at 3:15 a.m. to get three teeth pulled at a free dental clinic. When he arrived, 70 people were already in line.

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