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Adeline Lhau, center, has her hair combed by Nadia Moranie at a makeshift camp for earthquake survivors in Port-au-Prince. (Photo by Jorge Saenz / AP)

High court mulls speech rights

Free-speech cases have not historically divided the court along ideological or political lines, yet some early signs suggest that could change this term.

USA TODAY

NASA joins Toyota investigation

NASA and the National Academy of Sciences are joining the government's effort to figure out what caused the sudden acceleration problems that led to Toyota's massive automobile recalls.

MSNBC

Toyota aims to quicken decision-making

BusinessWeek

Haiti to unveil restructuring plan at UN

Haitian President Rene Preval will unveil a $3.9 billion plan to begin radically reshaping his country's post-earthquake economy and infrastructure, according to a Haitian reconstruction action plan.

Washington Post

Haitian entrepreneurs build micro-economies in 'Tent City'

PBS

CERN particle accelerator set to collide

Using a $6 billion particle accelerator straddling the Swiss-French border, CERN physicists will attempt to collide protons at an energy level unmatched at any other physics lab.

Christian Science Monitor

Detecting tiny particles

Ars Technica

Special section:

Large Hadron Collider

BBC

Judge invalidates human gene patent

A federal judge struck down patents on two genes linked to cancer. The decision, if upheld, could put into doubt the patents covering thousands of human genes and reshape the law of intellectual property.

New York Times

NATION

EPA says no carbon rules on power plants before 2011

The Obama administration will put off requiring permits for greenhouse-gas emissions by industrial polluters such as power plants and oil refineries.

Bloomberg

US Treasury plans to sell Citigroup stake

The U.S. Treasury Department plans to sell the government’s 27 percent stake in Citigroup Inc., bringing the bank one step closer to leaving the bailout program.

Bloomberg

POLITICS

Obama rallies troops morale during surprise visit to Afghanistan

President Barack Obama has told U.S. forces on his first visit to Afghanistan as U.S. president that they are there to help Afghans to forge a "hard-won peace."

BBC

Obama makes surprise visit to Afghanistan

CNN

Dems hope Tea Partiers lose steam

Tea Party activists kicked off a 42-city protest tour against the passage of health care reform. If the health care reforms turns out to be popular, some of the steam may come out of the Tea Party movement.

CBS News

Pre-existing condition vexes Mitt Romney

Mitt Romney has launched a two-pronged strategy that features a robust argument about how his state plan is different from Washington Democrats’ approach.

Politico

HEALTH

Morality study narrows gap between mind and brain

Scientists have found a surprising link between magnets and morality. A person's moral judgments can be changed almost instantly by delivering a magnetic pulse to an area of the brain near the right ear.

NPR

Fattening foods may cause addiction

Scientists have finally confirmed what the rest of us have suspected for years: Bacon, cheesecake, and other delicious yet fattening foods may be addictive.

CNN

Compulsive eating shares addictive mechanism with cocaine

ScienceDaily

ENVIRONMENT

BP's solar retreat signals exodus of US renewable-energy jobs

BP Plc's, Europe's second-largest oil company, decision to halt U.S. output of solar panels may help short-circuit President Barack Obama's plan to create thousands of jobs in renewable energy.

Bloomberg

Will a warming climate disrupt the Gulf Stream and other ocean currents?

If the melting of the polar ice caps injects great amounts of freshwater into the world's oceans, climate scientists fear that the influx could affect currents enough to drastically change the weather on the land.

Scientific American

Gulf Stream 'is not slowing down'

BBC

SPORTS

Obama to throw ceremonial 1st pitch for Nats opener

President Barack Obama will throw out the ceremonial first pitch at the opening game against the Philadelphia Phillies. The event will be on the 100th anniversary of the first time a president threw out an opening pitch.

NBCSports.com

Trip to Elite Eight is a 1st for Fla. State

In beating Mississippi State 74-71 in an NCAA tournament regional semifinal, the third-seeded Seminoles (29-5) advanced to the regional final for the first time.

Dayton Daily News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

9 in 'Christian warrior' militia indicted

Nine people, federal prosecutors say, belonging to a "Christian warrior" militia, were accused of plotting to kill a Michigan law enforcement officer and then attack other police at the funeral.

New York Times

Christian militian suspects charged

MSNBC

Author held for offending Buddhists

An expatriate Sri Lankan woman who wrote two books about her conversion from Buddhism to Islam has been arrested while on holiday in Sri Lanka, apparently for causing offense to Buddhists.

Times Online

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GOOD NEWS

Puzzles for charity

By spending an afternoon solving puzzles, members of a University of Iowa sorority hoped to assist the effort to solve autism.

Iowa City Press-Citizen

Hero mom is honored for saving three children and fisherman in sea rescue

Dietician Jacqueline Walker, 39, who has just won a bravery award for her actions, told how all four children were close to drowning when she plucked them from the icy water to safety.

Scottish Daily Record

WORLD

NYC on high alert after Moscow bombings

New York police doubled patrols of the subway system and sent a battery of police cars to transit hubs as a precaution following the Moscow subway bombings.

Reuters

Russia's leaders pledge to 'destroy' attackers

BBC

Subway blasts kill dozens in Moscow

Reuters

South Korean military on alert

South Korea's defense minister says North Korea may have floated a mine to damage a naval ship that exploded and sank.

TIME

Rescuers work to save China miners

Rescue workers have been trying to save at least 153 people feared trapped in a flooded coal mine in northern China.

Al Jazeera

Flood traps miners in China

Reuters

BUSINESS

Coming to America: 3rd world microlending for businesses

America's small-business owners are finding themselves cut off from the money they need, as banks reduce credit limits and freeze lending. However, they're finding a new solution from the third world.

NPR

Consumer spending in US increases

U.S. consumers tapped their savings in February to keep spending on an upward path for a fifth straight month, implying that consumption may be strong enough in coming months to keep a recovery going.

Bloomberg

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

US questions Australian Internet filter

U.S. has raised concerns with Australia about impact of a proposed Internet filter that placed restrictions on Web content.

MSNBC

Apple iPad delay for pre-order customers

Apple Inc.'s iPad tablet computer hits U.S. shelves but fans who want the new touch-screen gadget shipped directly to them must wait a week.

San Francisco Chronicle

EDUCATION

Delaware to get first round of 'Race to the Top' education grants

The U.S. Department of Education has picked Delaware and Tennessee for the first round of its “Race to the Top” competition.

The News Journal (Delaware)

Stimulus aid yanks states' spending leash

Many states are finding it difficult to satisfy federal requirements that they spend as much on K-12 and higher education as they did in 2006 to receive the fiscal stabilization money.

Education Week

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Student and post grad job-seekers changing their Facebook pages

Students are changing their names on Facebook while looking for jobs. A recent survey indicates that 70 percent were rejected based on their profile.

CNN

Facebook mulls privacy changes

PC World

June Havoc dies at 97

June Havoc, who began a successful acting career on vaudeville stages when she was 2, has died. She saw her accomplishments overshadowed by the fictionalized portrayal of her in the musical "Gypsy."

TheaterMania

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