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Plane truths: the aircraft of the future

Some aircraft designers believe that nearly all available efficiency gains have been wrung from an airplane’s traditional shape. For a further big cut in fuel consumption, a new type of airliner is needed.

Economist

Google enables search result kill switch

Capping months of search quality adjustments designed to penalize content farms, Google announced that it will provide a way for users to hide unwanted search results.

InformationWeek

Is DoubleClick clicking for Google?

BusinessWeek

Wis. Assembly passes union measure

After police carried demonstrators out of the building, Republicans entered the Assembly chamber and approved Gov. Scott Walker’s bill repealing most collective bargaining by public employee unions.

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Wis. GOP Assembly justifies collective bargaining cuts

PBS Newshour

Gadhafi takes key towns, NATO squabbles over Libya action

The Gadhafi regime has issued a defiant warning that the “time for action” arrived as a sustained military assault forced the defeat of Libyan rebels in Zawiya and their retreat from Ras Lanuf.

Guardian

Libya oil fields on fire

CBS News

Libya’s rebels battle a Gadhafi attack

TIME

Last WWI vet to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery

The body of the West Virginia soldier who outlived every other American who served in World War I will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery, a family spokesman said.

Houston Chronicle

NATION

What killed Illinois’ death penalty

If there was one moment when Illinois’ death penalty began to die, it was over a decade ago, when a man named Anthony Porter walked out of jail a free man.

Chicago Tribune

Ohio executes convict using a single, controversial drug

ABC News

Map:

States with and without the death penalty

Amnesty International

Report: US needs immigration boost of high-skilled workers

Skilled foreign-born workers contribute more to the economy than they take away, and unless the American government enacts immigration reform, the U.S. “risks falling behind in the global race for talent.”

CNN

Army to punish 9 officers for Fort Hood shootings in Texas

The Army has begun to administer punishments for “administrative and leadership failures relating to the career of Maj. Nidal Hasan,” the alleged shooter in the Fort Hood shootings that killed 13.

ABC News

POLITICS

All eyes on GOP House freshmen in budget impasse: Will they budge?

In votes that surprised no one, the Senate rejected first the House’s proposed budget, which included $61 billion in cuts, and then its own alternative proposal, which included $6.5 billion in cuts.

Christian Science Monitor

Rep. Peter King defiant as Muslim hearings open amid controversy

Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., struck a defiant tone as he opened his controversial House hearing on radicalization within the American Muslim community, vowing to proceed despite a firestorm of charges.

Politico

Muslim congressman gives emotional testimony

MSNBC

Budget deficit hits record $222.5B

The government posted a record monthly budget deficit of $222.5 billion in February as spending growth outstripped revenue gains crimped by tax cuts enacted late last year, the Treasury Department reported.

Reuters

EDUCATION

Older campuses failing to meet modern-day needs

After a decade of chipping away at accumulated maintenance projects, the Department of Education is adding outdated infrastructure to its priority list for public school campuses.

Honolulu Star-Advertiser

Poor economy imperils Pell Grants

The U.S. House of Representatives proposed a fiscal 2011 budget that would slash numerous programs, including a reduction in the maximum Pell Grant by $845.

Education Week

ENVIRONMENT

Crude reality: Gas prices rocket because they can

It didn’t take long for turmoil in North Africa and the Middle East to produce pain at gasoline pumps in the U.S. In the weeks ahead, the forecasters say, it’s going to get worse.

National Geographic

New $15M effort launched to preserve land around Silicon Valley

Land trusts will announce a new effort to preserve 10,000 acres of land in Silicon Valley from development before real estate prices rebound.

San Jose Mercury News

SPORTS

Ohio State punishment of Jim Tressel called ‘a little light’

The head of a law firm that helps schools deal with the NCAA said the Ohio State punishment of Jim Tressel appears lenient.

USA TODAY

Berra taken to hospital after fall

Yogi Berra was taken by ambulance from the Yankees’ spring training game after tripping in the clubhouse. The 85-year-old Hall of Famer was in “good spirits” and the hospital visit was strictly a precaution.

Sports Illustrated

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Church should not pursue conversion of Jews, pope says

After excerpts from the pope’s book on Jesus made the rounds featuring his rejection of the idea that “the Jews” killed Christ, the full text has important implications for Christian/Jewish relations.

National Catholic Reporter

Unprotected texts: Sex and marriage in the Bible contradict each other

Pastor Jennifer Wright Knust says the Bible often contradicts itself on topics relating to sex and desire.

NPR

Columns And Op-Ed

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If not a no-fly zone, then what else can be done?

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War Room

Editorial:

Gas pains in Congress as prices rise again

Philadelphia Inquirer

Editorial:

NPR wounds itself, again

Star Tribune

Column (Chuck Raasch):

US prosecution of leakers could chill whistle-blowers

USA TODAY

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Christian Science Monitor

Column (Bob Sullivan):

Why should I care about digital privacy?

MSNBC

Column (Mike Honda):

Peter King’s Muslim hearings will not make America safer

Huffington Post

Column (John Kampfner):

A fearful BBC must regain its nerve

The Independent

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GOOD NEWS

‘60 Minutes’ program spurs outpouring of support for homeless children

The Florida social worker featured in the “60 Minutes” piece says people are shocked that this is happening in the U.S., but she adds the resulting flood of charity calls has been “unbelievable.”

CBS News

Mom’s tenacity saves son’s hearing

It turned out Haleh Resnick was right. The doctor said the hearing aids weren’t helping her son. In fact, he had been misdiagnosed with hearing loss.

CNN

Clapton raises $2.2M for rehab center, guitar prices soar

Eric Clapton raised $2.2 million at a Bonhams auction in New York, as buyers competed for his guitars, amplifiers and other memorabilia.

Bloomberg

WORLD

How North Korea has skillfully exploited a defector standoff with South Korea

North Korea has turned the rescue of 31 North Koreans, whose boat drifted into South Korean waters, into a huge embarrassment for South Korea with a massive propaganda offensive.

Christian Science Monitor

Dalai Lama to retire from political life

The Dalai Lama has announced he will retire from political life. Analysts and supporters have described the decision of the Dalai Lama, whose office combines spiritual and temporal roles, as historic.

Guardian

25 killed in China quake

An earthquake struck China near its border with Myanmar, killing at least 25 people and injuring more than 250.

MSNBC

China earthquake

CBS News

BUSINESS

Blockbuster to auction assets with revised $290M bid

Bankrupt Blockbuster Inc., once the world’s largest movie-rental chain, can auction itself with a newly revised $290 million bid from hedge funds and avoid immediate liquidation, a judge ruled.

Bloomberg

Trade gap wider as jobless claims rise

A strong flow of imports pushed up the U.S. trade deficit in January, a further sign of strengthening demand, while new claims for jobless aid rose more than expected.

Reuters

HEALTH

Study: Coffee might lower the risk of stroke in women

Women who enjoy a daily dose of coffee may like this perk: It might lower their risk of stroke.

Kansas City Star

H1N1 swine flu mutation could spread more easily

It would take just a small change in DNA to create a mutation of the 2009 H1N1 swine flu virus that could spread more easily, concluded U.S. scientists.

Medical News Today

Almost 12 million cancer survivors living in US, report shows

The number of cancer survivors in the United States climbed to 11.7 million in 2007, government health officials reported. That’s a dramatic increase since 1971, when there were 3 million survivors.

HealthDay

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

What is a ‘supermoon’?

Next week the moon won’t just be at its closest approach to Earth in its elliptical orbit, enthusiasts say it will be closer to Earth than it’s been in 18 years.

ABC News

Some sharks aim and go miles for a meal

Sharks aren’t relegated to swimming randomly in search of prey to chomp on. New research indicates tiger sharks and thresher sharks somehow target and navigate across long distances.

LiveScience

How companies find out everything about you

I‘ve gathered some of the data that’s being collected both online and off by companies in stealth. This data is collected in lots of ways, such as tracking devices on websites and apps you download on your cell.

TIME

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

America’s 1st laughing competition guffaws off ground

The first laughing championship takes place in San Luis Obispo, Calif., and a few dozen gigglers, guffawers and chortlers will yuck it up in hopes of winning the coveted title of “California’s Best Laugher.”

AOL News

Art house filmmakers rid 3-D of its gimmicky image

From documentaries by European auteurs, to films of classical opera, it seems the 3-D craze is no longer confined to the Hollywood blockbuster.

The Independent

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