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Massey Energy workers Maurice Blanchette, Jimmy Shortridge, Brandon Waddell and Andrew Lucas, from left to right, take a break from rescue drilling efforts in Montcoal, W.Va, where miners are believed to be trapped after an explosion. (Photo by Jeff Gentner / Pool / AP)

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Unions to make mining safer?

Massey Energy's Big Branch mine in West Virginia, where 25 miners died in a methane explosion, is like most mines in the area: It received hundreds of citations in the past year, and it wasn't unionized.

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Newsweek

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As rescue efforts continue for miners, officials press for answers

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Upper Big Branch coal mine

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MSNBC

Tackling teacher-on-teacher bullying

Most schools have policies that target bullying, but they are usually aimed at students. Now, school districts in Iowa and California are developing rules to prevent teachers from bullying teachers.

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USA TODAY

US approves killing American cleric

The U.S. government has authorized the capture or killing of radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, currently based in Yemen, officials have confirmed.

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BBC

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Is it legal to kill an American in war on terror?

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Christian Science Monitor

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Finding, killing al-Awlaki will be difficult

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Times Online

US unready for future face of war

For the United States, the prospect of a cyberattack is especially worrisome. The entire U.S. economy depends on operations in cyberspace. If computer networks shut down, so will the country.

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NPR

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Is the US most vulnerable to cyberattack?

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Birth rate among US teens declines

"We are very pleased," said Sarah Brown of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancies, adding that increases in recent years were on the verge of becoming "a troubling trend."

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Boston Globe

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CDC: Birth rates rise among women over 40

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NATION

Scam alert issued on new health care law

Beware of scam artists taking advantage of the new health care law to peddle phony insurance policies, President Barack Obama's top health official warned.

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Airline will charge for carry-ons

Just when you thought airlines had run out of things to charge for, Spirit Airlines has become the first carrier to add fees for carry-on luggage.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

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Will you pay a fee to store your carry-on?

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MSNBC

LA mayor asks to shut down city services 2 days a week

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa called for shutting down "nonessential" city services two days a week, after Controller Wendy Greuel said the municipality's cash may run out next month.

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BusinessWeek

POLITICS

Supreme Court may soon lack Protestant justices for 1st time

Almost nobody has noticed that when Justice John Paul Stevens retires, it is entirely possible that there will be no Protestant justices on the court for the first time ever.

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NPR

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Obama pressed on China showdown

A populist backlash against China's trade policies is spreading to Capitol Hill, with politicians in both parties pressuring President Barack Obama to jettison caution and crack down on Beijing.

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Politico

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Bill aims to punish Chinese currency manipulation

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Mid-Hudson News

Toomey renews quest to unseat Specter

For once, says Pat Toomey, the political planets and stars have aligned in a year of protest brush fires that he thinks could yet send him to the U.S. Senate seat he failed to win six years ago.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

EDUCATION

ELLs' math, reading proficiency rises

The percentage of English-language learners nationwide attaining proficiency in reading and mathematics increased in many states from the 2005-06 through the 2007-08 school years, a new report claims.

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Bill stresses students' need to study the effects of Okla. City attack

A bill signed into law around the 15th anniversary of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building stresses the need to educate Oklahoma public school students about the Oklahoma City attack.

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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Pointillist style could bring lifelike graphics to PCs

An Australian firm hopes to revolutionize computer graphics and make it possible to create stunning virtual worlds on relatively modest machines.

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Get out the periodic table, kids! There's a new element: 117

Well, there was a new element. Element 117, the last holdout in the last row of the periodic table, existed briefly in a Russian atom smasher. It's the fifth new element discovered this decade.

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Christian Science Monitor

1st ever multicellular animals found in oxygen-free environment

In the 236 years since oxygen was identified as a life-giving necessity, no scientist anywhere has discovered a multicellular animal capable of living without the stuff — until now.

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Popular Science

ENVIRONMENT

Science may spark a 2nd Green Revolution

Professor Jonathan Lynch of plant nutrition at Pennsylvania State University and his colleagues are trying to develop crops whose root systems can resist drought and take up fertilizer from the soil.

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Christian Science Monitor

Biodynamic farmers follow Earth's rhythms

When it was time for Randall Grahm to plant his new pinot noir vine, he considered less orthodox factors: the cosmic and seasonal rhythms at play and how they might be harnessed to help the clippings take root.

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Kansas City Star

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Soldiers want it their way

The U.S. military may shut down "nonessential" fast food joints like Burger King at their largest air base in Afghanistan.

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Christian Science Monitor

Is a good turn good television?

A television producer hopes to make inspirational children's stories about losing a soldier parent to war into tone-changing reality TV.

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Denver Post

Real-life, place-based communities benefit from online interactions

Some experts say the intersection between online communication and the offline world forms two halves of a support mechanism for communities.

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Medical News Today

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GOOD NEWS

Women donate to breast milk banks to help others' babies

With a growing number of doctors saying breast milk is the best food for babies, especially hospitalized preemies struggling to gain weight, the demand for milk donations is increasing.

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USA TODAY

New discovery expected to increase radiotherapy effectiveness

British scientists have identified a gene that, once blocked, could increase the effectiveness of radiotherapy on tumors, according to research recently published in Cancer Research.

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Medical News Today

WORLD

Over 100 dead after heavy rain in Brazil

The most intense rain in half a century triggered flooding and mudslides that killed at least 100 people in southeastern Brazil, most of them in the Rio de Janeiro area.

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Telegraph.co.uk

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Deadly landslides hit Brazil

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YouTube

Red Shirt protesters storm Parliament

Anti-government demonstrators have kept Bangkok on edge for nearly three weeks, and news agencies reported that a band of protesters broke through a line of security and stormed into Parliament.

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Thai Red Shirts breach Parliament grounds

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BBC

Protesters riot, clouding fate of Kyrgyzstan government

Protesters seized internal security headquarters and a state TV channel after fatal clashes with government forces in Kyrgyzstan, saying they now controlled the Central Asian nation.

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MSNBC

BUSINESS

Greenspan defends Federal Reserve record in consumer protection

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan defended the central bank's record on consumer protection in the years before the financial crisis.

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Bloomberg

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Fed should act to ward off asset bubbles

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Getting a signal you're already paying for

Faced with criticism for its spotty iPhone service, AT&T blames in part a shortage of cell phone towers near homes and businesses. But it has a solution: put a miniature cell tower in your living room.

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UAW sues GM over Delphi pact stipulation

The UAW filed a lawsuit against General Motors, claiming the automaker owes the union $450 million as part of a 3-year-old contract with its now-bankrupt parts division, Delphi.

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Detroit Free Press

SPORTS

UConn stops Stanford for women's title

Connecticut overcame the worst first half in championship history to go where no college women's basketball team has gone when it rallied past Stanford 53-47 to win a seventh NCAA title.

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USA TODAY

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2010 NCAA Tournament championship game

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Hartford Courant

Turner to enter NBA draft

After collecting almost every national player of the year honor, Ohio State's Evan Turner is skipping his senior season to test himself in the NBA and is expected to be a top-three pick.

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ESPN

HEALTH

Complex spinal procedures abound in older patients

The rate of complex operations for spinal stenosis increased drastically over a recent six-year period in a Medicare population, researchers found.

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You are what microbes you eat

Cleaner food and better hygiene is a good thing, responsible for dramatically reducing food-borne illness. But there might be some unintended consequences, including altering the microbiota in the intestines.

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HealthDay

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Pope Benedict names Gomez to succeed LA archbishop

Pope Benedict acknowledged the growing importance of Latinos in the American church by appointing Archbishop Jose Gomez as next archbishop of Los Angeles once the current archbishop retires.

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USA TODAY

Creating space for God, religion

At the five-year mark, two key objectives of Pope Benedict XVI’s pontificate have come into clear focus: creating space for religion in the public sphere and space for God in private lives.

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The Catholic Spirit

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Half of Earth's life may lie below land, sea

While astronomers scour the skies for signs of life in outer space, biologists are exploring an enormous living world buried below the surface of the Earth.

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McClatchy Newspapers

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A sea of blooming tulips in Lafayette Park frames the White House in Washington. (Photo by Susan Walsh / AP)

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