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Mega-cities: a glimpse of how we'll live tomorrow

By 2050, 7 out of 10 people will live in mega-cities, offering the benefits of concentrated living but also posing some of the biggest public-works challenges in human history.

Christian Science Monitor

Ship logs help trace oceans' warming

Old ship logs provide a treasure trove of historical information about salinity and temperature of the oceans. Most of global warming has actually been warming of the oceans.

NPR

US carbon emissions fell 7 percent last year

USA TODAY

CIA given wider drone strike authority

The CIA received secret permission to attack a wider range of targets, as part of a dramatic expansion of its campaign of drone strikes in Pakistan's border region, current and former officials say.

Sydney Morning Herald

Blog:

No-name terrorists now CIA drone targets

Wired

Boat with containment box at oil site

A boat carrying a 100-ton concrete-and-steel contraption designed to siphon off the oil fouling the Gulf of Mexico has arrived at the spot in the sea where a blown-out well is spewing petroleum.

Forbes

Obama tries to avoid Katrina comparison

BusinessWeek

Crabbers fear livelihood may die

Houston Chronicle

Government panel: Americans 'bombarded' with cancer causes

Although as many as two-thirds of cancer cases are caused by lifestyle choices like smoking, the panel said many avoidable cancers were also caused by pollution.

Reuters

NATION

In Nashville, a way of life washed away

In Tennessee, thousands of people's lives and homes were swamped with muddy water and chaos when rains set a two-day Nashville record of nearly 14 inches.

USA TODAY

Times Square bomb: Evidence mounts of Pakistan Taliban link

Amid mounting claims that the Pakistani Taliban were involved, Pakistan probes possible links between militant groups on its soil and the alleged New York bomb plotter.

Telegraph.co.uk

Media coverage crimped Times Square case

NPR

Latino rights group calls for Ariz. boycott

A Latino rights group and other immigrant and labor organizations called for a national boycott of Arizona over the state's new immigration law, which allows police to ask anyone for proof of legal U.S. residency.

CNN

Blog:

Ariz. Gov. Jan Brewer tells ESPN: sports boycott a bad idea

CBS News

POLITICS

Autistic nominee draws support, doubt

Of the eight people President Barack Obama nominated to the National Council on Disability, just one has personally lived with a disability — the only one not confirmed.

Kansas City Star

GOP goes online with 'Commitment to America'

Remember the 1994 "Contract with America?" Well it's back to the future — the GOP is again drafting a blueprint designed to take back control of Congress.

CNN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Last launch of Atlantis

NASA has cleared the space shuttle Atlantis for its last planned launch on May 14, the first of three final spaceflights planned for the fleet.

Space News

Space telescope pierces giant star bubble

A colossal star many times the mass of our own sun is seen growing in a bubble of gas and dust just pictured by the Herschel space observatory.

BBC

Facebook's new features secretly add apps to your profile

Facebook apps are being added to your profile without your knowledge. And stopping it isn't as easy as checking a box in your privacy settings.

PC World

1 in 4 Facebook users ignore security controls

V3.co.uk

SPORTS

Distraught Bradley seeks counseling to deal with emotional issues

Emotionally distraught Seattle Mariners outfielder Milton Bradley, who angrily left the stadium during the middle of their game, is seeking counseling.

USA TODAY

Lind homers in 9th to continue Indians losing streak

Manny Acta endured plenty of losses with the Washington Nationals. His time with the Cleveland Indians hasn't been much better.

Sporting News

EDUCATION

A campus where unlearning is first

Freshmen — 85 percent of them Egyptians — at the American University of Cairo are taught to learn in ways quite at odds with the traditional methods of teaching.

New York Times

Mother's Day brings college degree for some single moms

Graduate credits graduation to Champlain College's Single Parents Program, founded in 1988 on the premise that higher education is a ticket out of poverty.

USA TODAY

Fear is not an option in this vo-tech class

The description of the training program at Steel Center Area Vocational Technical School is simple: Learn to climb a utility pole. But doing it? Not so simple.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

ENVIRONMENT

Greenhouse-gas numbers up in the air

Aircraft will soon crisscross the skies, measuring an array of greenhouse gases, aerosols and other atmospheric properties as they fly over cities, industrial facilities and agricultural areas.

Scientific American

Designing leaves for a warmer world

The genetic controls of leaf shape could allow us to boost crop yields, meet the challenge of feeding the world and adapt to climate change.

New Scientist

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GOOD NEWS

Pupils find new program tasty

Rick Delashmit, general manager for a Belleville, Mo., farmers market, has developed Taste Buds, a novel way for children to include more fruits and vegetables in their diets.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Ripken Baseball hosts teens, coaches from Iraq

A handful of teenagers and seven Iraqi coaches, including the Iraqi equivalent to the head of USA Baseball, came to Aberdeen, Md. to receive instruction at Ripken Baseball.

Baltimore Sun

WORLD

Tight race for British Parliament

Britons have begun going to the polls after a frantic race to the finish among politicians clamoring to persuade voters that they offer the best prospect of economic change and social renewal.

New York Times

Special section:

UK elections

Telegraph.co.uk

Best bet is that history will be made

ABC News

Mumbai gunman given death sentence as fastest terror trial ends

An Indian court sentenced to death a Pakistani found guilty of waging war during the 2008 assault on Mumbai, ending the country's quickest major terrorism trial.

Bloomberg

Mumbai gunman sentenced to death

CNN

BUSINESS

FCC seeking to apply narrow rules to broadband access

The head of the Federal Communications Commission is pledging to apply narrow regulations to high-speed Internet access to ensure the agency has adequate authority to govern broadband providers.

NPR

Cable stocks tumble on regulation worries

Reuters

Contract work could be new normal

As employers begin to cautiously hire again a new contingent work force is emerging — the contract workers.

MSNBC

Fewer US workers filed for jobless claims

Bloomberg

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Shifting portrait of US mothers

U.S. mothers of newborns today are more likely to be older, better-educated, foreign born, unmarried or a minority than their counterparts of less than two decades ago, according to a report released.

Houston Chronicle

Picasso piece sells for record

A Picasso painting called "Nude, Green Leaves and Bust" sold for nearly $106.5 million at auction, a record for any single work of art, Christie's New York said.

CNN

Picasso painting breaks world record

YouTube

HEALTH

1 sleepless night can induce insulin resistance in healthy people

According to a new study just one night of short sleep duration can induce insulin resistance, a component of type 2 diabetes in healthy individuals.

ScienceDaily

Can the Pill lower a woman's sex drive?

Women who use hormonal contraception such as birth control pills may be at higher risk for having sexual problems than women who use no contraception or non-hormonal contraception.

HealthDay

Periods: Who needs them anyway? Women have mixed feelings

CNN

New detection technology identifies microorganisms within 24 hours

Law enforcement authorities seeking to detect bio-terrorism attacks, doctors diagnosing diseases and regulatory agencies checking product safety may find a new ally in rapid detection technology.

ScienceDaily

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Blogger to receive honor at Aquinas

A 27-year-old blogger from Philadelphia has become the first journalist to receive an honorary doctorate from the Aquinas Institute of Theology in St. Louis.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Founder's son turns on church that pickets soldiers' funerals

The Westboro Baptist Church pickets are drawing new scorn from an unlikely source, Nate Phelps, a son of the church's founder.

ABC News

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