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Former student Ashley Delgado, left, stands with a sign next to Joe Clavin outside Central Falls high school in Central Falls, R.I. Instructors and staff will be fired after the end of the school year in a desperate move to improve student performance at the school. (Photo by Michael Dwyer / AP)

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FDA to replace misleading food labels

The rising obesity epidemic in the U.S. has prompted the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to conduct a review of so-called front-of-package labeling.

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LiveScience

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Calories on food labels could be off by 25 percent

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Daily Mail

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Tips on reading nutrition labels

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YouTube

US to roll out major broadband policy

U.S. regulators will announce a major Internet policy, proposing a dramatic increase in broadband speeds.

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Reuters

Barack Obama overhauls schools formula

President Barack Obama is proposing a new blueprint for the U.S. public school system that would overturn a heavy emphasis on standardized testing favored by his predecessor, George W. Bush.

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Schools focus on teaching quality, seek funding

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Denver Post

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Education plan shuffles political deck

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Politico

Actor Peter Graves dies at 83

Peter Graves, the tall, stalwart actor likely best known for his portrayal of Jim Phelps in the long-running television series Mission: Impossible, has passed away.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

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USA TODAY

Conn. would waive loans for degrees in 'green' technology

President Barack Obama announced in January $2.3 billion in tax credits that he said would create 17,000 green jobs. The money will go to projects including solar, wind and energy management.

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Kansas City Star

NATION

Snapshot of America

The 2010 census forms should begin arriving in mailboxes soon. Inside the envelope, you'll find a form with 10 questions. No long forms this year, like the ones that had 52 questions in 2000.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Microlenders aid businesses

Microlending first became popular as a form of foreign investment in emerging markets. The trend has been slower to take off in the U.S., especially because many consumers have access to credit cards.

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Journal Gazette

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Ex-Cisco manager sees new role for microlending

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San Jose Mercury News

Floods feared after storm in Northeast

Utility crews pushed through fallen trees and windblown debris to reach downed power lines, working to restore electricity to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in the Northeast.

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MSNBC

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Half a million without power in Northeast

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ABC News

POLITICS

Obama pollster: US will like health care bill, despite poll numbers

President Barack Obama's pollster said the health care bill will win over public support once it becomes law, despite polls showing Americans are against the plan.

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The Hill

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House Democrat says still short on health votes

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Reuters

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Final battle for health reform?

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CBS News

Dodd to unveil a broad financial overhaul

The chairman of the Senate Banking Committee will unveil a proposal to revamp the nation’s financial regulations that would empower shareholders.

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Key details released on Dodd's financial reform bill

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Huffington Post

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Why surprises temporarily blind us

New research from Vanderbilt University reveals how our brains coordinate different types of attention and why we may be temporarily blinded by surprises.

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ScienceDaily

New Digg to get faster, more personal

The popular news-sharing site Digg is getting an overhaul that will personalize results, dramatically expand content and, most importantly, make the site "wicked fast," according to its makers.

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CNN

HEALTH

Diabetes heart treatments may cause harm

Three aggressive treatment strategies that doctors had expected would prevent heart attacks among people with Type 2 diabetes have proven to be ineffective or even harmful, new studies show.

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Diabetes treatments deemed harmful

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CBS News

Are stock market woes bad for the heart?

When the stock market declines, do heart attacks go up? That's what Duke University Medical Center researchers are wondering based on an analysis of data collected during the current U.S. economic crisis.

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HealthDay

EDUCATION

NJ schools brace for governor’s next round of cuts

A popular after-school program will end after losing its state financing, one of the first casualties in Gov. Christopher J. Christie’s campaign to close a $2.2 billion budget deficit in the current fiscal year.

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Firing of all teachers at RI school roils students

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ABC News

Asia is new promised land for business school graduates

Freshly-minted MBA graduates with straight A's in hand from top B-schools in America used to have only one post-grad career destination, the United States.

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Daily News & Analysis

SPORTS

Zenyatta gets job done yet again

Zenyatta displayed her brilliance, and continued perfection, in the $250,000 Santa Margarita Handicap at Santa Anita, extending her winning streak to 15 races.

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ESPN

McNamee attorneys may ask Jeter, Rivera to testify against Clemens

Brian McNamee's defense attorneys might call on former teammates of Roger Clemens as the ex-pitcher attempts to appeal a judge's decision to dismiss his defamation suit against his former trainer.

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GOOD NEWS

Daddy, I want to help the poor – let’s sell the house

Kevin Salwen obviously wasn’t thinking. He opened his mouth, said the first thing that popped into his head and brought his family’s hitherto comfortable existence to an end.

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Times Online

NY women's 'summit' unites activists

Many women crowded into a Manhattan theater for a conference on empowering women across the globe.

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ABC News

WORLD

International adoption: A big fix brings dramatic decline

Along with the growth of international adoption came publicized scandal and a chillier new adoption climate, causing plummeting adoption rates and leaving behind many orphans around the globe.

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Christian Science Monitor

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International adoptions on the rise locally

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Israel to investigate timing of settlement announcement

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has set up a team to investigate why officials announced new settlement construction in disputed territory while U.S. Vice President Joe Biden was visiting.

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CNN

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Clinton's harsh words stun Israel

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Los Angeles Times

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Biden meets Palestinian leaders

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BUSINESS

Eliminating overdraft fees could cost you

Annoying overdraft fees on insignificant purchases may be on their way out. But the new rules won't necessarily ease your cash flow; banks are finding other ways to make the money back.

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NPR

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Overdraft overhaul ahead

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Google, China at impasse

Google is "99.9 percent" certain it will have to close its Chinese search engine as talks with Chinese authorities about censorship have reached an apparent dead end.

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CBS News

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

'Alice' leads box office, 'Green Zone' flops

"Alice in Wonderland" raced to a $430 million haul at the worldwide box office, while Matt Damon's new Iraq war conspiracy thriller "Green Zone" was one of the year's first big flops.

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Reuters

Musicians look to clean up their acts

Music agents, promoters and managers met in London to discuss how the industry can clean up its act, but still make money.

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The Independent

ENVIRONMENT

London landmark building will generate 8 percent of its energy needs

London's new skyscraper, nicknamed "the Razor," will take a crucial step towards becoming the world's first building with wind turbines built into its fabric.

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Guardian

'World's most useful tree' provides water purification

A low-cost water purification technique could help drastically reduce waterborne disease in the developing world.

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ScienceDaily

British government's ads banned for overstating climate change

Two British government advertisements that use nursery rhymes to warn people of the dangers of climate change have been banned for exaggerating.

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Times Online

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Vatican defends pope, denies celibacy rule led to sex scandal

The Vatican denies that its celibacy requirement for priests was the root cause of the clerical sex abuse scandal convulsing the church in Europe and again defended the pope's handling of the crisis.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Reform Judaism Movement's prayer book 'could upset'

A progressive wing of the Jewish religion is publishing a prayer book for funerals which it says could prove controversial among orthodox believers.

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BBC

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Quit smoking to double cancer survival

People with early lung cancer who quit smoking could double their chances of surviving, a new study says.

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MSNBC

Photo of the Day

A Buddhist mountain priest controls a fire during a rite of purification at the foot of Mt. Takao in western Tokyo. (Photo by Junji Kurokawa / AP)

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