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TennCare recipient Terry Shields sits at his kitchen table in Jamestown, Tenn. with some of the prescription drugs he needs to survive. He fears being cut off from TennCare-Medicaid insurance because of a state budget crunch, and won't be able to afford the medicines on his own. (Photo by Wade Payne / AP)

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New dietary guidelines restrict salt, sugar and saturated fats

The Department of Agriculture issued new guidelines for improving the nation's diet, but the main recommendations are steps many largely avoid — cutting back on salt, sugar and saturated fats.

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Los Angeles Times

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Genes make it hard for some to give up salt

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Should a child really have a best friend?

The childhood "best friend" has long been romanticized in pop culture. But increasingly, educators and other professionals are asking why it is so important.

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AMA condemns insurance 'purging'

The American Medical Association has decided on a policy against "purging," a practice that includes charging certain subscribers much higher premiums as a way to get them off the subscriber rolls.

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ABC News

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State to review rate hikes of 4 health insurers

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San Jose Mercury News

Investment in workforce announced

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Healthwatch

Israel cabinet eases Gaza Strip blockade

Israel has announced it will ease the land blockade of the Gaza Strip and allow more civilian goods to enter the Palestinian territory. It comes amid growing international pressure to end the embargo.

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BBC

In Utah, execution evokes eras past

The firing squad, a Utah way of death that began in pioneer days and lingered after other states adopted cleaner means of execution, is back.

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Suicide rivals the battlefield in US military

Nearly as many American troops have committed suicide this year as have been killed in combat in Afghanistan. Alarmed at this rate, the Army has begun investigating its suicide prevention programs.

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NPR

NATION

BP to fund $20 billion oil spill payout

BP will put $20 billion in an escrow account to compensate people affected by the Gulf Coast oil spill. BP also canceled its quarterly dividend for the rest of 2010.

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ABC News

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Sea creatures flee oil spill, gather near shore

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Oil spill multimedia collection

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NRA exemption in campaign bill opposed by interest groups

Forty-five public interest groups expressed opposition to a Democratic bill requiring greater disclosure in campaign financing, saying an exemption for the powerful National Rifle Association was unjust.

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Reuters

Families in homeless shelters increased 7 percent in 2009

The recession continued to take its toll as more families with children became homeless for the second straight year.

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USA TODAY

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Homeless children get help

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Detroit News

POLITICS

Gay-marriage battle heads for the judge

Lawyers for two gay couples attempt to persuade a federal judge to be the first to rule that the U.S. Constitution guarantees gays and lesbians the right to marry.

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TIME

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Prop. 8 trial closing arguments

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San Jose Mercury News

Tea party readies for harsh scrutiny

Big-time publishing houses, documentary filmmakers and academia are now promising to make sense of the tea party in a series of books, conferences and documentaries.

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Politico

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Tea party backs Palin-favored candidate over Murkowski in Alaska

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NPR

Bill to unseal some adoption records advances in NJ Assembly

New Jersey could become the ninth state to guarantee adult adoptees access to birth information and family medical history.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

HEALTH

Cell phone users to get radiation warning

San Francisco, Calif., likely will become the first U.S. city to require cell phone companies to disclose how much radiation their gadgets emit.

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CNN

FDA: 'Female Viagra' falls short

Federal health regulators said the first pill designed to boost the female sex drive failed to make an impact on libido in two studies.

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TIME

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Man's voice reveals his fighting ability

In the animal kingdom, a male's vocalizations are sometimes tied to actual physical strength. Human men also turn out to fit that phenomenon perfectly.

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Reclaiming causes of a filmmaking rebel

The widow of Nicholas Ray, the director of "Rebel Without a Cause," is reclaiming one of his lost, unfinished works.

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ENVIRONMENT

US lawns getting an eco-makeover

From coast to coast, eco-concerned homeowners are ripping out their manicured, chemically-treated lawns and replacing them with organic food gardens, native flowers and sometimes, just rocks.

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Environmental News Network

Mich. gets a battery-powered recovery

Thanks to a combination of federal and state incentives for private companies, Michigan is suddenly emerging as a major center of production for the advanced batteries that power electric cars.

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NPR

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Abortion puts strain on religious-government aid coalition

It took Dr. Hanna Klaus four years and $1.6 million in federal funding, but she and her team have preached abstinence to more than 23,000 African teenagers.

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Religion News Service

Catholic church widens role in Cuba

The Roman Catholic Church is expanding its role in Cuban politics, but it's not clear how much it can ease the government's hard-line stance against dissent.

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NPR

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The elephant in the room: Health reform fog is lifting

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Buddha sculpture proves to be a graffiti magnet

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San Francisco Chronicle

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A bold phone fades a bit in the details

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Column (Bradford Plumer):

Oh, the humanity

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The New Republic

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End the drug war

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Creators Syndicate

BP must pay

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Rebecca Gummere):

Peering into the honeybee's world of elegant order

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Christian Science Monitor

Blog (Daniel Indiviglio):

5 reasons why your mom wants an iPad

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The Atlantic

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GOOD NEWS

Test could detect MS 9 years in advance

A simple blood test that can predict multiple sclerosis up to nine years before symptoms appear is being developed by Israeli scientists.

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Telegraph.co.uk

Flight attendant helps sick pilot land plane at O'Hare

A flight attendant who has a commercial pilot’s license replaced a sick pilot and helped land a Chicago-bound American Airlines plane at O’Hare Airport.

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Chicago Sun-Times

WORLD

Flash floods hit southern France

Up to 15 people have been killed by flash floods in south-eastern France, officials say. A number of others were reported missing after torrential rain hit the mountains above the Cote D'Azur region.

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BBC

Hugo Chavez sees support fade, even in Venezuela strongholds

When oil prices dropped and the world sank into financial crisis, Venezuela President Hugo Chávez's problems began to mount.

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Christian Science Monitor

The image that changed the course of South Africa's history

Thirty-four years ago thousands of black school children in Soweto, South Africa, took to the streets to protest the apartheid education system that obliged them to be taught in Afrikaans.

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CNN

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Flowers laid to mark Soweto uprising

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USA TODAY

BUSINESS

Study links holocaust to low GDP

A new study suggests that the killing of the Jews has led to lower economic growth and more reactionary politics in the 11 regions where the Holocaust was carried out most intensely.

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Moscow Times

Factories lead rebound as housing falls

Output at factories, mines and utilities increased 1.2 percent last month, while housing starts fell 10 percent, the biggest decline since 2009.

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Bloomberg

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Fannie Mae to delist from NYSE

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YouTube

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

'God particle' may be 5 distinct particles

The "God particle" may actually be five distinct particles, evidence from a new atom-smashing experiment suggests.

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National Geographic

DNA clue to solve riddle over skeleton

A riddle over human remains found on wasteland is a step closer to being solved following a scientific breakthrough.

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Manchester Evening News

EDUCATION

Record number of college enrollments

The nation's colleges are attracting record numbers of new students as more Hispanics finish high school and young adults opt to pursue higher education rather than languish in a weak job market.

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CBS News

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US kids facing summer of hunger

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AOL News

Chicago schools to have 35 per class

Chicago School Board members tackled their worst fiscal crisis since Mayor Daley's 1995 school takeover by granting school officials the power to raise class sizes to up to 35 students for the next two years.

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Chicago Sun-Times

Medical schools don't produce enough primary care doctors

As the U.S. grapples with a shortage of primary care physicians, many in health care fear that access will sharply decline as health reform adds millions more Americans to the ranks of the insured.

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10 things primary physicians won't tell you

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SmartMoney Magazine

SPORTS

Pac-10 invites Utah as 12th member

Utah is poised to become the 12th member of the Pac-10, as the conference quickly pivoted to invite the Utes after being turned down by Texas and four other members of the Big 12.

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ESPN

2012 All-Star Game to be at Kansas City

Bereft of baseball pageantry for decades, Kansas City will finally get to see the game's best and brightest up close.

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Sports Illustrated

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2012 MLB All-Star Game announcement at Kauffman Stadium

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Kansas City Star

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Internet restrictions curtail human rights, says US

Many governments have used the Internet to curtail freedom of expression at home, the U.S. Department of State says in its latest annual human rights report.

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BBC

Photo of the Day

A young Chinese boy plays with a toy bubble gun while celebrating the Duanwu Festival, also known as the Dragon Boat Festival, at Longtan park in Beijing. (Photo by Muhammed Muheisen / AP)

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