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A tsunami warning is flashed along Highway 17 in the mountains leading to the coastal town of Santa Cruz, Calif. A magnitude 8.9 earthquake in Japan sparked a tsunami that moved across the Pacific, triggering warnings as far away as the U.S. West Coast. (Photo by Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP)

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What is bohemian?

The word “bohemian” is bandied about and applied to everyone from Pete Doherty to Kate Moss. But what is a bohemian? How do you spot one? And might you be a “boho” too?

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BBC

US shoppers shake off high gasoline costs in February

Retail sales posted their largest gain in four months in February as shoppers stepped up purchases of autos, clothes and other goods even as they spent more for gas.

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Reuters

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How high will gas prices fly?

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MSNBC

Calif., Ore. sustained damage from tsunami

The warnings traveled quickly across the Pacific in the middle of the night: A magnitude 8.9 earthquake in Japan spawned a deadly tsunami, and it was racing east as fast as a jetliner.

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San Jose Mercury News

Japan earthquake: the worst-affected areas

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Guardian

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Earthquake in Japan

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Houston Chronicle

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Powerful waves hit West Coast

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MSNBC

Don’t look up: The secret space plane is flying again

Unmanned and automated, the orbital test vehicle, or OTV, is named with the marketing zing for which the military is famous. But what exactly is the OTV and why are we spending money on it?

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TIME

Daylight saving time: how to cope with the loss of an hour

The clocks are about to spring forward into daylight saving time — the bittersweet adjustment that brightens the evenings while wreaking havoc on sleep schedules.

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ABC News

NATION

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.

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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In Wisconsin, GOP Assembly OKs collective bargaining curbs

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YouTube

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.

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ABC News

Recent war veterans struggle to find jobs

The Labor Department is expected to release new unemployment numbers for veterans. In 2009, 21.1 percent were reported unemployed. The number is expected to be just as high for 2010.

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Kansas City Star

POLITICS

Obama prepared to tap oil reserves

President Barack Obama is prepared to tap the nation’s strategic oil reserves to deal with any supply disruptions as part of his effort to keep gas prices under control.

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CNNMoney

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.

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Christian Science Monitor

EDUCATION

Pa. government’s deep cuts in higher education draw protests

Pennsylvania’s new Republican governor is under fire for proposing the nation’s biggest cuts in higher education — more than 50 percent for some universities.

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ABC News

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.

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Honolulu Star-Advertiser

ENVIRONMENT

Vegan diet for dogs: a question of thriving vs. surviving

It began when Shelley Boyle’s veterinarian recommended she stop feeding meat and dairy to her beloved mutt, Cleo, to determine whether a food allergy was to blame for the dog’s chronic ear infection.

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CNN

Great white shark population lower than previously believed

Researchers have found that fewer great whites are in the Pacific Ocean than previously believed. Other shark species have also suffered steep population declines like the great white shark’s in recent years.

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Christian Science Monitor

SPORTS

Players union applies for decertification

The NFLPA announced they applied for decertification following an ultimatum issued by NFLPA head, DeMaurice Smith. The union asked the league to release ten years’ worth of audited financial statements.

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NBCSports

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.

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USA TODAY

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

House Muslim hearing presents views from all sides

Amid tight security, a House of Representatives committee launched a controversial, and at times emotional, probe into the radicalization of American Muslims.

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McClatchy Newspapers

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.

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NPR

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Blog (Stanton Peele):

Bullying is as American as apple pie

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Huffington Post

Column (Mark Pfeifle):

Web’s identity crisis: tool of freedom or repression?

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Christian Science Monitor

Column (C.W. Gusewelle):

Unions benefit workers

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Kansas City Star

NPR wounds itself, again

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Star Tribune

Blog (Adam Clark Estes):

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

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(Salon)

War Room

Column (David Bromwich):

The embarrassments of empires from Egypt to Pakistan

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Huffington Post

Gas pains in Congress as prices rise again

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Chuck Raasch):

US prosecution of leakers could chill whistle-blowers

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USA TODAY

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GOOD NEWS

Father’s dog tag finally in son’s hands after 40 years

Christopher DeGroff never knew his father. But 40 years after his death Christopher received his father’s dog tag and learned what happened to him.

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Las Vegas Review Journal

Giffords hopes to attend husband’s shuttle launch

Gabrielle Giffords has shown so much progress in her recovery from a bullet wound that friends and family are making plans for her to attend her husband’s space shuttle mission in Florida.

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San Jose Mercury 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.”

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CBS News

WORLD

Gadhafi loyalists mount onslaught

Forces loyal to Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi are reported to have made gains against anti-government rebels in two key areas.

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BBC

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Gadhafi forces shell oil port to dislodge rebels

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

As AIG crumbled, China stepped in

U.S. officials believe China’s insurance regulator passed on proprietary information about AIG to its Chinese rivals during the American firm’s collapse in 2008, according to unpublished diplomatic cables.

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Reuters

BUSINESS

US takes over 3 Tylenol plants

The government is taking over three Tylenol plants following a blizzard of drug recalls and a Food and Drug Administration criminal investigation into safety issues at the factories.

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CNNMoney

Rust Belt recovery

For the first time in many years, American manufacturing is doing better than the rest of the economy. Factory employment has been slowly rising along with output.

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Economist

HEALTH

Obesity may be linked to low birth weight

Nutritionally deprived newborns’ brains are “programmed” to eat more because they have fewer pathways in the brain for signaling fullness. This discovery may help us understand obesity later in life.

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Medical News Today

Animal study may explain birth weight-obesity link

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(U.S. News & World Report)

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.

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Kansas City Star

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.

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HealthDay

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

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.

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Economist

Growing demand for gadgets may lead to shortage of elements

A growing demand for a wide array of smart phones, flat-panel TVs, hybrid cars and wind turbines has raised worries about future disruptions to a huge supply chain of rare elements.

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LiveScience

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Thousands invade Texas for music, film and Web

The city of Austin in Texas is braced for the arrival of tens of thousands of film, music and technology enthusiasts, all attending the annual South by Southwest conference.

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BBC

Why should I care about digital privacy?

Consumer behavior repeatedly shows that people just don’t care about privacy. But it’s a human right more people should be fighting for.

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MSNBC

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Google enables search result kill switch

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InformationWeek

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Scientist’s idea could help children in India out of poverty

The tablet device invented by a Houston computer scientist eventually might help raise many of India‘s children out of poverty and into the country’s emerging economy.

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Houston Chronicle

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A snow-covered airplane is tied down on the tarmac at the Zelienople Municipal Airport in Zelienople, Pa. (Photo by Keith Srakocic / AP)

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