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Duane Jackson sets up his stand in Times Square in New York. Jackson was one of the first people to alert police to an SUV that contained a crude bomb containing three propane tanks, fireworks, two filled 5-gallon gasoline containers, and two clocks with batteries, electrical wire and other components. (Photo by Seth Wenig / AP)

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High-crime neighborhoods may worsen children's asthma

Exposure to violent crime may exacerbate asthma in children, according to a study presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

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ScienceDaily

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Asthma health center

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WebMD

Parents of autistic children turning to alternative treatments

About one in five children with autism uses alternative treatments to help with the neurodevelopmental disorder, most often a special diet, a new study finds.

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HealthDay

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Children with autism frequently receive psychotropic medications

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Search is on for Times Square suspect

Federal authorities have joined the search for a suspect who planted a crude car bomb in a smoking Nissan Pathfinder in Times Square, prompting the evacuation of thousands on a warm and busy night.

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New York: a prime target for terrorism

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Guardian

Pakistan denies Taliban claim in Times Square bomb attempt

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CBS News

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US considers failed Times Square car bomb a terrorist attack

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Globeandmail.com

Mexican traffickers get help from US prison gangs

When Mexican drug traffickers need someone killed or kidnapped, or drugs distributed in the United States, they call on U.S.-based prison gangs.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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As death toll in drug war rises, Mexicans short of facts and trust

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Tri-City Herald

School tries to prove doubters wrong

On the east side of Waterloo, a town northeast of Des Moines, Iowa, two schoolhouses stand together, the symbols of a troubled school's past and future.

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Des Moines Register

NATION

Tenn. flooding kills 5

Severe thunderstorms dropped 6 to 10 inches of rain on Middle Tennessee, causing at least five deaths, forcing emergency management officials to rescue people using swift-water boats.

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Mich. grads say they'll take Obama message forward

President Obama challenged University of Michigan graduates to rise above the rancor that has infected politics, broaden their horizons, contribute to their country and help preserve American democracy.

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Detroit Free Press

POLITICS

Marchers protest Ariz. law

More than 70 walks across the nation have turned out thousands of immigrant advocates who have been galvanized by Arizona's controversial law that makes it a state crime to be in the country illegally.

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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Experts on economic toll of immigrants

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San Diego Union-Tribune

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Rallies against Ariz. law

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CBS News

Financial overhaul likely to be major highlight in Dodd's political career

Scarcely four months after helping to shepherd the health care overhaul through the Senate, Christopher J. Dodd is once again at the center of the most urgent item on the president's agenda.

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Hartford Courant

GULF COAST OIL SPILL

Gulf oil spill grows, with little success stopping flow

BP's chairman defended his company's safety record and said that "a failed piece of equipment" was to blame for a massive oil spill along the Gulf Coast.

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San Francisco Chronicle

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Oil spill may doom region's marshes

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Denver Post

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Rig blast aftermath

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Associated Press

Obama to review control efforts as Gulf spill moves ashore

President Barack Obama will arrive on the Gulf Coast to review efforts to mitigate a potential environmental disaster in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida as an expanding oil spill moves onshore.

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BusinessWeek

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The oil spill spreads

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NPR

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

A ‘Russian roulette’ of risk results after data breaches

A list of database breaches compiled by the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse finds that the number of leaked records across the U.S. holding sensitive personal information tops 353 million.

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Kansas City Star

Apple vs. Adobe: Is Flash dying?

The stats seem to support Steve Jobs' contention that Adobe's video format is fading fast.

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CNNMoney

ENVIRONMENT

Figures show scale of bee catastrophe

The world may be on the brink of biological disaster after news that a third of U.S. bee colonies did not survive the winter.

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Guardian

Global glaciation snowballed into giant change in carbon cycle

For insight into what can happen when the Earth's carbon cycle is altered — a cause and consequence of climate change — scientists can look to an event that occurred some 720 million years ago.

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ScienceDaily

EDUCATION

Success at charter schools is mixed

For all their support and cultural cachet, the majority of the 5,000 or so charter schools nationwide appear to be no better than local public schools when measured by achievement on standardized tests.

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Parents, students say Hartford school spirals out of control

Parents and teachers say student behavior at Rawson, a pre-kindergarten through Grade eight school in Hartford, Conn., has spiraled out of control.

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Hartford Courant

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

US dollars fueling church campaign

An American-based group opposed to abortion has said it is donating “tens of thousands of dollars” to help defeat Kenya’s proposed constitution.

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The Daily Nation

Catholic order to be overhauled after founder's abuse

Pope Benedict XVI is to appoint an envoy to overhaul a conservative Roman Catholic order whose Mexican founder abused young children over many years.

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BBC

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GOOD NEWS

Act of kindness in kids' Springfield, Mo., garden lifts young volunteers' spirits

The Daisy Scout Troop populated the flower bed near the school entrance with 100 tulip, daffodil and hyacinth bulbs, plus pansies, ferns and a flowering dogwood.

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STLtoday.com

Harley workers garden, help the hungry

Because of T.J. Dixon's February labors, hundreds of hungry people in Kansas City will benefit this summer — one of the toughest seasons for food donations.

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Kansas City Star

WORLD

Some profit from wives despite French polygamy ban

The burqa, or face-covering veil, is getting all the attention in the debate over Muslim immigrants in France. But another tradition among some immigrants is less noticed and far more widespread: polygamy.

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MSNBC

Biggest World Expo in history opens

To celebrate its emergence as a global power, China is throwing a party — the largest-ever world expo, a six-month extravaganza that kicked off with hundreds of thousands visitors.

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San Jose Mercury News

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The 2010 Shanghai World Expo

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Telegraph.co.uk

Major powers to propose ban on WMD in Middle East

The world's major powers are drafting a new initiative to ban all weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East, officials from several countries said today.

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Guardian

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Ahmadinejad blasts US before visit

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CNN

BUSINESS

Job market's worse for boomers

For many baby boomers, the labor market remains tough. The unemployment rate for people 55 and older has hit the highest level ever recorded in the post-World War II era for workers in this age group.

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NPR

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Experts red-hot over green jobs

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Buffett backs Goldman Sachs on trade probed by SEC, praises CEO Blankfein

Buffett praised Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein and said the bank shouldn’t be blamed for losses suffered by clients who invested in mortgage bets at the center of a fraud suit filed by regulators.

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Bloomberg

SPORTS

Borel dominates Derby on Super Saver

The most wide-open Derby in years ended with a sure thing — Borel crossing the finish line and punching the air with his right fist, this time raising it toward a leaden sky.

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ESPN

Floyd Mayweather pounds out victory over Shane Mosley

Floyd Mayweather overcame a shaky second round to easily win a victory against Shane Mosley in their welterweight mega-fight before a crowd of 15,117 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.

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USA TODAY

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Free Comic Book Day brings smiles

Free Comic Book Day is a worldwide event designed to entice new readers to the illustrated medium.

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Edmonton Journal

Leno and Obama entertain at White House Correspondents Dinner

In what is becoming a regular entertainment event, President Barack Obama and Jay Leno entertained a crowd of politicians and celebrities, as well as a national television audience.

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Politico

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Obama's speech at Correspondents Dinner

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CNN

HEALTH

BMI inexact, underestimates the prevalence of obesity

The scale of the obesity epidemic may be much worse than currently believed since the usual measure, body mass index, is a very insensitive measure of excess body fat, researchers said at a meeting.

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ABC News

Dose of oxytocin increases the cuddles

Antisocial behavior involves an ability to observe — or even cause — the suffering of others and not experience any of it yourself. Could oxytocin change that?

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TIME

Green exercise can boost mental health

Just five minutes a day of exercise in a park, working in a backyard garden, on a nature trail, or other green space can boost mood and self-esteem, according to a new study.

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

A determined quest to bring adoptive ties to foster teenagers

Scores of foster and adoption agencies around the country have found that assertive efforts can turn up dozens of relatives for almost any child.

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Elena Amelia Racea of Romania competes in the women's floor final at the European Gymnastics Team Championships in Birmingham, England. (Photo by Alastair Grant / AP)

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