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Lee Hamilton, right, and Brent Scowcroft, center, co-chairs, Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future Agenda, talk with former New Mexico Sen. Pete Domenici during the group's meeting in Washington. (Photo by Cliff Owen / AP)

Research to rid brain of anxiety

Drugs to treat those who suffer from phobias and anxiety disorders have been used for decades with some success, but there is still no medical silver bullet.

ABC News

Jobless claims slide

First-time claims for unemployment insurance fell last week to the lowest level in six weeks, the government said.

CNNMoney

Parsing the jobless data

CNBC

Nuclear waste piles up, costing taxpayers

The Bush administration agreed to store nuclear waste from 21 new reactors. But the federal government still can't meet its commitment to find permanent storage.

Christian Science Monitor

Panel to study what to do with US nuclear waste

CNN

Pwn2Own winner tells Apple, Microsoft to find their own bugs

Charlie Miller says that security is such a "broken record" that he won't hand over 20 vulnerabilities he's found. Instead he will show the vendors how to find the bugs themselves.

Computerworld

Mac hacker, Charlie Miller

Forbes

Study: One-third of Americans use public library computers

A third of Americans 14 and older — about 77 million people — use public library computers to look for jobs, connect with friends, do their homework and improve their lives, according to a new study.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

NATION

'Don't ask, don't tell' faces more scrutiny

Discharging a gay person for violating the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy will draw unprecedented scrutiny under new orders from the defense secretary.

Kansas City Star

Stay-at-home dads re-entering the workforce

Even before the recession began, the number of stay-at-home dads was on the rise. For some of these dads, re-entering the work force is proving to be a challenge.

NPR

Victim says Pope should be accountable

A victim of molestation by Father Lawrence C. Murphy recounted his abuse in a news conference outside the headquarters of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee.

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Vatican: Not aware of alleged abuse

CNN

Victim's daughter: Pope did nothing

Associated Press

POLITICS

Senate backs health care fix, sends bill back to House

The Senate approved a package of changes to President Barack Obama's landmark health care overhaul and sent it to the House of Representatives for final passage.

Reuters

Democrats face death threats, vandalism

Guardian

Cantor: Don't fan flames

CNN

Calif. to vote on legalizing marijuana

California voters will decide in November whether to legalize marijuana for recreational use in the most-populous U.S. state after advocates gathered enough support to put it on the ballot.

BusinessWeek

Medical marijuana users risk job loss

CNN

BUSINESS

CEOs defy Obama with more cash instead of pay for performance

Executives, whose pay packages were typically negotiated in 2008 and early 2009, weren’t willing to give up salaries for long-term, stock-based awards that could decline in value.

Bloomberg

Bank of America to eat part of home loans

Bank of America is taking a dramatic step toward righting its most troubled mortgages, with plans to forgive up to 30 percent of loan principal in some cases.

TheStreet.com

ENVIRONMENT

Trade trumps species at UN talks

Japan's lobbying appeared to pay dividends in ensuring that trade interests trumped wildlife at a U.N. conference at which proposals to protect polar bears, bluefin tuna, coral and sharks all fell flat.

MSNBC

Isle in Bay of Bengal disappears

For nearly 30 years, India and Bangladesh have argued over control of a tiny rock island in the Bay of Bengal. Now rising sea levels have resolved the dispute for them.

TIME

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Fossil points to new human species

Genetic analysis of a fossilized fragment of a finger bone has indicated that it was from a previously unknown hominid, distinct from early modern humans and Neanderthals.

Nature

Honeybees dying: scientists wonder why, and worry about food supply

Scientists who surveyed commercial beekeepers and brokers say almost 29 percent of the bee colonies in the U.S. collapsed in 2009.

ABC News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Geneticist wins $1.5 million religion prize

A one-time priest who later became an evolutionary geneticist and molecular biologist and helped scientifically refute creationism with his research was honored with one of the world's top religion prizes.

Modesto Bee

Atheists question spirituality award

USA TODAY

Quebec lifts the face veil

Quebecers were asked to put a new face forward as the Charest government announced guidelines on reasonable accommodation that ban the Islamic face veil, while allowing the head scarf.

The Gazette

Students outraged at Ann Coulter

Sydney Morning Herald

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GOOD NEWS

A 'dream day' for a Md. cancer survivor

The Experience Genie brings sponsors together to fund a special day for people who typically are nominated by friends.

Baltimore Sun

Girl donates her birthday money to save teachers' jobs

One 10-year-old girl fighting to save her teacher's job is getting lawmakers' attention, by foregoing something she had been looking forward to for two years.

ABC News

WORLD

Russia claims breakthrough in historic nuclear reduction agreement with US

President Barack Obama's ambitious goal of freeing the world of nuclear weapons won a significant boost after signs that Russia and the U.S. have agreed on a historic nuclear arms reduction treaty.

Guardian

Curbing Taliban opium trade proves risky

U.S. forces that stormed Marjah were ordered to seize opium stashes but leave farmers' poppy fields alone. Destroying crops would undermine the broader goal of winning the support of a population.

TIME

Special section:

Opium

New York Times

US troops in poppy fields

MSNBC

EDUCATION

NAEP reading results disappointing

Reading scores stayed flat for 4th graders and rose only slightly for 8th graders on the most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress.

Education Week

Special section:

The nation's report card

Associated Press

School lunch bill clears Senate panel

The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 would commit an additional $4.5 billion to child-nutrition programs over the next 10 years and implement the most sweeping changes to those programs in decades.

USA TODAY

Home-schooled students could play high school sports

A bill under consideration would allow home-schooled students or those who attend private schools without athletics, to play sports at their local public school.

St. Louis Globe-Democrat

HEALTH

Experts: One-third of breast cancer cases can be avoided with diet, exercise

Researchers said up to a third of breast cancer cases could be avoided if women ate less and exercised more. These comments could ignite heated discussions among victims and advocates.

Star Tribune

Half of states ban tobacco use in prisons

A growing number of states are cracking down on tobacco use on prison grounds to prevent illness and help lower health costs.

USA TODAY

SPORTS

Bills, Raiders inquired about McNabb

The Oakland Raiders and Buffalo Bills have both been reported to have contacted the Philadelphia Eagles about a trade for quarterback Donovan McNabb.

Yahoo Sports!

Eagles considering QB options

ESPN

NJ Nets bag 8th win, beat Kings

The league-worst Nets beat the Sacramento Kings, 93-79, to snap a 14-game home losing streak.

NY Daily News

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Click! Polaroid snaps back on the scene

Polaroid has struggled in recent years and even announced it would stop making its famous instant film. But soon, Polaroid will be back with a new image.

NPR

Scientology outrage over a critical film

Carl Bergengruen, the head of drama at a public broadcaster in southwest Germany, insists that the filmmakers did not try to vilify Scientology but to show how people can be drawn to "promises of salvation."

TIME

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