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Sixteen-year-old Jessica Watson works with the rigging as she sails past the finish line at the entrance to Sydney Harbour in Sydney, Australia, capping off a nearly 23,000 nautical mile voyage that many thought she wouldn't survive. (Photo by Rob Griffith / AP)

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Australian teen completes round-the-world sail

A 16-year-old Australian who spent seven months at sea sailed across the finish line of her round-the-world journey, becoming the youngest sailor to circle the globe solo, nonstop and unassisted.

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Emotions rise as Jessica Watson returns

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Sydney Morning Herald

Study: White and black children biased toward lighter skin

Nearly 60 years after American schools were desegregated, white children have an overwhelming white bias, and black children also have a bias toward white, according to a new study commissioned by CNN.

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CNN

Bangkok conflict erupts in gunfire

Troops and anti-government demonstrators battled through the night, intensifying a violent political conflict that erupted in gunfire and turned Bangkok's commercial district into a bloody battlefield.

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Thai crisis

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CTV

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Unrest continues in Bangkok

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MSNBC

NASA space shuttle Atlantis launches on final mission

NASA’s space shuttle Atlantis took off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on its final scheduled journey after almost a quarter-century of missions.

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BusinessWeek

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Space shuttle Atlantis soars on final voyage

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Toronto Sun

Google 'mistakenly' got wireless data

Google Inc. said its fleet of cars responsible for photographing streets around the world have for several years accidentally collected personal information sent by consumers over wireless networks.

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Reuters

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Google Inc.

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NATION

Schwarzenegger compares Calif. woes to eurozone economies

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger compared the state's predicament to that of weaker eurozone economies and called for scrapping the state welfare system to close a $19.1 billion budget gap.

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Reuters

Town rebuilds green after tornado

Three years ago, a tornado destroyed Greensburg, Kan., leaving 90 percent of the population homeless and 11 people dead. But the residents came together to rebuild a new environmentally friendly town.

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NPR

POLITICS

US OKs killing of cleric, causes unease

The Obama administration’s decision to authorize the killing by the CIA of a terrorism suspect who is an American citizen has set off a debate over the legal and political limits of drone missile strikes.

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Palin: Obama would ban guns if he could

Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin said during a speech that President Barack Obama and his Democratic allies would ban guns and ammunition if they could get away with it.

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CBS News

BUSINESS

Bank failure tally grows to 72 for 2010

State regulators shuttered banks in Illinois, Missouri, Georgia and Michigan, including a 23-branch bank that failed despite having received help from the government's Troubled Asset Relief Program.

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Wall Street Journal

Small businesses challenge Obama's health law

The nation's most influential small business lobby is joining a court challenge to the health care overhaul, arguing that Americans cannot be required under the Constitution to obtain insurance coverage.

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CBS News

ENVIRONMENT

EPA acts against big plants' pollution

The Environmental Protection Agency moved to more tightly control air pollution from large power plants, factories, and oil refineries, a step to limit emissions widely blamed for global warming.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

UN climate panel review begins after skeptics flag mistakes

A team has begun a review of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change after the Nobel-prize winning body was criticized for errors on melting Himalayan glaciers and flooding.

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Bloomberg

Locavore craze boosts fishing industry

From Alaskan wild king salmon to Maine lobsters, local fisheries have survived, due for the most part to a new appreciation for local, sustainable food sources.

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MSNBC

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Obama to end 'cozy' oil relationships

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BusinessWeek

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Dalai Lama urges global, personal peace

The Dalai Lama, giving his first public talk in Indianapolis since 1999, said America has the potential to lead the world in the right direction if it is only willing to think globally.

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Indianapolis Star

Vt. church abuse settlement tops $20M

Vermont's Catholic Church agreed to pay more than $20 million to settle almost 30 outstanding priest misconduct lawsuits against it.

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HEALTH

Quality child care leads to smarter teens

The effects of early child care may be more long-lasting than commonly believed, according to a new study.

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WebMD

Mental care stays are up in military

Mental health disorders caused more hospitalizations among U.S. troops in 2009 than any other reason. This historic high reflects the growing toll of nearly nine years of war.

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USA TODAY

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

A new interpretation of 'Robin Hood'? That's so 14th century

Makers of the new 'Robin Hood' film are touting it as 'authentic.' But no one knows what the real Robin Hood was like — if he existed at all.

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Christian Science Monitor

Rolling Stones revisit 'Exile on Main St.'

Keith Richards remembers the period in the early 1970s when the Rolling Stones were working on “Exile on Main St.” as a fairly down time. The parts he remembers at all, that is.

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Detroit Free Press

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GOOD NEWS

'Surfing makes me feel like I'm flying'

Dana Cummings lost a leg in a car crash. He then helped create the Association of Amputee Surfers. The nonprofit organization helps teach people with disabilities how to surf — for free.

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CNN

Minn. boy bets big on solar power

David Gelbaum, a former hedge fund manager, has quietly invested $500 million in clean-tech companies and donated nearly as much to environmental causes.

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Star Tribune

WORLD

Turkish leader Erdogan makes 'historic' Greek visit

Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has made a rare trip to Greece, where he co-chaired the first joint cabinet meeting between the two states.

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Al Jazeera

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Turkey, Brazil scramble to seal Iran nuclear fuel swap deal

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Christian Science Monitor

India 'diverts funds for poor to pay for Delhi games'

Tens of millions of dollars have been diverted in India from schemes to fight poverty and used to fund Delhi's Commonwealth Games, a report says.

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BBC

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NPR

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Anti-aging secrets in girl's genes?

A 17-year-old girl, who is the size of an infant, is giving scientists insights into aging that some say could eventually lead to extraordinarily long life spans of hundreds of years or more.

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Easter Island mysteries

There are many mysteries about this small island in the southeast Pacific. The biggest ones are about the strange large statutes and how they were moved and the second about how it all ended.

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Environmental News Network

Happy 50th birthday to the laser

It was dismissed by some scientists as "a solution looking for a problem." But when the first working laser was rolled out 50 years ago it didn't take long for the hyper-focused beams of light to find work.

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CNN

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'Star Wars' meets reality? Military tests lasers

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USA TODAY

SPORTS

Celtics dump LeBron, Cavs to reach Eastern finals in 6 games

The Boston Celtics sent LeBron James and the Cavaliers back to Cleveland to admire all of their regular-season accomplishments and ponder their future.

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USA TODAY

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Future cloudy for LeBron, Mike Brown

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CBS News

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LeBron begins free agency journey

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ESPN

Former Pistons assistant Mike Woodson fired by Hawks

Mike Woodson, a former Detroit Pistons assistant under Larry Brown, was informed by the team’s general manager and a former Pistons executive that his contract won’t be renewed.

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Detroit Free Press

EDUCATION

Education rises among all Americans

Americans across major racial and ethnic groups became better educated over the past decade, a new analysis of U.S. census data finds.

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Congratulations, class of 2010. Hired yet?

In a still-tight job market, college graduates have their sights set on more education and opportunities abroad. Demand is up for statistics, finance, and accounting majors.

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Christian Science Monitor

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Scenes from a counter-revolution

The growing power of the Tea Party movement will make it hard for Republicans to compromise with the president.

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Economist

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The massive crater of Mount St. Helens and the lava dome that grew in it several years earlier is seen from the Johnston Ridge Observatory at Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument near Toutle, Wash. (Photo by Elaine Thompson / AP)

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