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Libyan citizens stand over a destroyed tank at Al-Katiba military base after it was overtaken by the anti-Libyan protesters a few days ago in Benghazi, Libya. (Photo by Hussein Malla / AP)

Curating a museum that spans an entire city

With more than 3,000 murals, Philadelphia’s 27-year-old Mural Arts Program started with the successful Mural Mile, a program launched last summer that facilitates free self-guided tours.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Special section:

The Albert M. Greenfield ‘African-American Iconic Images Collection’

Muralarts.org

20 years later, 1st Iraq War still resonates

The first Persian Gulf War did lead to further confrontations — and its reverberations are still felt today. It was a short war with a long aftermath.

NPR

Gadhafi tries to bribe his way out of trouble

The U.N. Security Council was expecting to consider actions against Moammar Gadhafi as his regime said it was more than doubling some public sector workers’ wages and promised $400 for every family.

MSNBC

Gadhafi blames al-Qaida for revolt

Al Jazeera

Obama seeks consensus on Libya violence

BBC

Blog:

Libya in turmoil — live updates

(Guardian)

News Blog

Map:

Tweets from the Arab world

Spiegel International

The leaky corporation

Digital information is easy not only to store, but also to leak. Companies must decide what they really need to keep secret and how best to do so.

Economist

Earliest human remains found in Alaska

Scientists have discovered the cremated skeleton of a Paleoindian child in central Alaska. The findings reveal a slice of domestic life that has been missing from the region’s record.

ScienceDaily

NATION

Government demands for tobacco firms

U.S. District Court Judge Gladys Kessler refused tobacco companies’ requests for the suggested “corrective statements” to be under seal and declined to extend the legal battle over them.

Reuters

New York City gets public-smoking ban

Los Angeles Times

FBI suspects bomb plot in Texas

A college student from Saudi Arabia studying chemical engineering in Texas was charged with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction after purchasing explosive chemicals over the Internet.

CBS News

Blog:

FBI arrests terror suspect in Texas

(Houston Chronicle)

Texas on the Potomac

POLITICS

GOP lawmakers in several states gesture toward compromise on union issue

Republican leaders in several states softened their attacks on public employee unions in an effort to avert the fiery demonstrations that have gripped Wisconsin’s state Capitol.

Washington Post

Blog:

Examining fundamental disagreements over public employees’ rights

(PBS)

The Rundown

Collective bargaining rights

Polling Report

Texas’ effort to amend US Constitution draws conservative critics

In the latest round of Texas vs. Washington, D.C., some Republican lawmakers in Austin want to rein in the federal government by amending the U.S. Constitution.

Fort Worth Star Telegram

Obama awards 6 Purple Hearts

President Barack Obama awarded six Purple Hearts while visiting with wounded service members. Obama also met with medical center staff during his hospital stay of more than an hour.

MSNBC

HEALTH

In malaria fight, enhanced fungus is showing promise

In the fight against malaria, our enemy’s enemy — a fungus that infects and kills disease-spreading mosquitoes — has now shown promise as an ally.

LiveScience

Alzheimer’s disease misdiagnosis, accuracy is important

Brain autopsies in Hawaii are revealing that some cases of severe dementia and Alzheimer’s have been misdiagnosed before death.

Medical News Today

How disordered proteins spread from cell to cell, potentially spreading disease

ScienceDaily

EDUCATION

Presidential tenures on the line

The Board of Trustees of the City Colleges of Chicago voted to change the college president job description at its seven institutions and encourage new candidates to apply.

Inside Higher Ed

Why they are rallying

Between the colorful rallies and counter-rallies, and legislators fleeing their own states, the debate over the right of public employees to unionize has captured national attention in the last two weeks.

Inside Higher Ed

ENVIRONMENT

Deaths of baby dolphins worry scientists

Baby bottlenose dolphins are washing up dead in record numbers on the shores of Alabama and Mississippi, alarming scientists and a federal agency charged with monitoring the health of the Gulf of Mexico.

CNN

Ore. tribes pursue 1st bison hunt in more than 100 years

The bison dropped to its big belly. Francis Marsh gasped for air — and with that shot became one of the first members of an Oregon Indian tribe to hunt buffalo in more than a century.

San Jose Mercury News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

T minus zero: Discovery to blast off on final flight

Space shuttle Discovery made its debut back in 1984, now Discovery embarked on its final mission, marking the beginning of the end of NASA’s 30-year-old space shuttle era.

NPR

1 giant step for a humanoid robot in space

CBS News

No Windows Phone 7 update for some Samsung users

Microsoft has suspended an update for its Windows Phone 7 software for phones manufactured by Samsung, according to a company representative.

InformationWeek

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Derek Lazzaro):

The FCC, Net neutrality and the future Enrons of the Internet

Truthdig

Editorial:

Mideast oil shock threatens US, again

USA TODAY

Column (Susan Estrich):

Laying blame

Creators Syndicate

Video:

The only defense PBS needs

Fark.com

Editorial:

Obama on defending marriage equality

San Francisco Chronicle

Column (Michelle Rhee):

End ‘last in, 1st out’ teacher layoffs

CNN

Column (Abbas Milani):

Time for Obama to throw his support behind Iran’s aspiring democrats

The New Republic

Editorial:

As Arabs cry for democracy, Islamists may need to follow

Christian Science Monitor

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GOOD NEWS

Kentucky turnaround high school ratchets up improvement

The test scores aren’t in yet, but by almost every other measure that matters — school climate, instructional strategies, staff satisfaction — the former Shawnee High School, Ky., isn’t the same place.

Education Week

Coach who donated kidney to player gets hero’s welcome at home opener

Two weeks after saving the life of one of his players by donating a kidney, Wake Forest University baseball coach Tom Walter received a hero’s welcome at the home opener.

AOL News

Fashion with compassion in Ariz.

Activism and philanthropy may not be among the first things that come to mind when you think of a beauty salon — but they’re certainly connected in Tucson.

Tucson Weekly

WORLD

New Zealand earthquake rescue efforts now in full swing

With the New Zealand earthquake death toll now at 98, authorities have mounted the country’s largest-ever rescue operation in a bid to save as many of the 226 missing people as they can.

Christian Science Monitor

Christchurch earthquake: CTV building in ruins

New Zealand Herald

Assange to be extradited to Sweden

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is to be extradited to Sweden to face allegations of rape and sexual assault. Assange has been fighting extradition and has consistently denied the allegations.

Guardian

BUSINESS

Is this bull market almost over, or will it thrive into the future?

History suggests the stock market is nearing an inflection point: Will this be a normal bull market or a mega-bull?

USA TODAY

401(k) accounts reach a 10-year high, but not high enough

While 401(k)s on average have emerged from the recession in surprisingly good health, many savers on the cusp of retirement are finding that good isn’t good enough.

ABC News

Toyota recalls 2 million US vehicles in stuck pedal inquiry

Toyota is recalling 2.17 million vehicles in the U.S. over reports that accelerator pedals could become stuck in floor mats and carpets.

BBC

SPORTS

`Melo does what `Melo does, but old guy Toney Douglas saves Knicks

Knicks fans, this is what you’re going to get from Carmelo Anthony. He had 27 points and one assist. He shot 10 of 25 on the night but the real hero of this game for the Knicks was Toney Douglas.

NBCSports

Bucks vs. Knicks

Metacafe

Mediation between NFL, union adjourns; will resume in DC

The NFL and players’ union adjourned seven days of federal mediation, agreeing to return to the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service in Washington, D.C.

NFL.com

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

At 150 years, the pope’s newspaper raises eyebrows

The homage to “The Simpsons” that was splashed across the Vatican’s newspaper was odd, and hinted that the paper was trying to be hip, even a bit controversial.

San Jose Mercury News

Minn. parish told to restrict homilies

The Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis says only priests can preach before communion after a recent mass where a woman stepped to the lectern on the altar — and started to preach.

Star Tribune

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Objectively speaking, it’s all about the prop master

In these days of high-definition TVs and Blu-ray discs, “every detail can be read — even a barcode on a book,” says Gallaher Glenn, property master for “The Social Network.”

NPR

Jennifer Lopez will unveil new music video on ‘Idol’

The star, who wept and said, “I can’t do this anymore!” at the end of an American Idol show after she had to kick off contestant Chris Medina, will unveil her new music video.

USA TODAY

The difficult road to American Idol’s top 24

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