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A Japan Self-Defense Force member reacts after rescuing a 4-month-old baby girl in Ishinomaki, northern Japan, three days after a powerful earthquake-triggered tsunami hit the country’s east coast. (Photo by The Yomiuri Shimbun, Hiroto Sekiguchi / AP)

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Tucson book festival brings city a sense of healing

The event attracts hundreds of authors and thousands of attendees for a weekend of literary fun. But many see it as a sign that Tucson is returning to normal after the January shooting rampage.

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Los Angeles Times

New application answers practical and weird questions

The Show Me Now application provides instructions on how to cope with situations ranging from fighting a gorilla and uncorking a champagne bottle with a saber.

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Reuters

2,000 bodies found in northeast Japan

Roughly 1,000 bodies were found coming ashore on Miyagi’s Ojika Peninsula, while another 1,000 were seen in the town of Minamisanriku, where some 10,000 people are unaccounted for.

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CNN

The worst-affected areas

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Guardian

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Crisis in Japan: live updates

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BBC

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Devastation in Japan

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CBS News

How to beat sleep apnea? Cut it out

Doctors are treating sleep apnea with a type of robotic surgery typically used to remove cancerous tumors at the back of the throat.

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NPR

Sweet on sugar, but is it an addiction?

While much has been made about the addictive qualities of sugar, with some suggesting it’s as hard to kick as a heroin habit, research suggests most of us have little to fear.

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NATION

East Coast waterways recede

Rain-swollen waterways in northern New Jersey slowly receded after cresting overnight, causing fewer evacuations than expected but still flooding roadways around in the region.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Bradley Manning comment costs State Department spokesman his job

State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley resigned over controversial comments he made about the treatment of alleged WikiLeaks source U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning.

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Christian Science Monitor

POLITICS

Obama pushing Congress on fixing education law

President Barack Obama is calling on Congress to rewrite the nation’s governing education law in time for a new school year next fall.

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Anchorage Daily News

Obama to reopen gun control debate

Two months after the mass shooting in Arizona, President Barack Obama is calling for better background checks on gun buyers and suggesting that more gun control legislation may be needed.

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The Oval

Sen. Durbin predicts GOP stopgap will pass, averting shutdown

Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the second-ranking Democrat in the Senate, predicted a House GOP proposal to cut spending by $6 billion over three weeks would pass the upper chamber.

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The Hill

EDUCATION

Wyo. governor signs education reform law

Gov. Matt Mead has signed into law several pieces of education reform legislation that aim to improve the performance of Wyoming’s public schools, teachers and students.

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Bloomberg

The it school for our next Einsteins

On a typical day at Harker School in San Jose, students are pondering special relativity and mastering multivariable calculus. They’re building circuits, splicing genes and, perhaps, dissecting a cat.

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San Jose Mercury News

ENVIRONMENT

Taxonomy: the naming crisis

Researchers are now calling for more efforts and resources to be put into the science of taxonomy — the discipline of describing, defining and naming organisms.

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The Independent

USGS launches butterfly, moth website

The United States Geologic Survey has launched a new website to help us appreciate the butterflies and moths of North America.

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Environmental News Network

Group seeks replanting of oldest, biggest trees to cleanse environment

A nonprofit organization called Archangel Ancient Tree Archive is rushing to collect genetic tree material and replant clones in an audacious plan to restore the world’s ancient forests.

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Star Tribune

SPORTS

Top seeds offer interesting mix

Among the four No. 1 seeds in this year’s NCAA men’s basketball tournament, there are blue bloods in defending national champion Duke and Kansas and blue collar in Pittsburgh.

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USA TODAY

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OSU, KU, Pitt and Duke get top seeds

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Duke routs North Carolina in ACC duel

Add another Atlantic Coast Conference championship to fifth-ranked Duke’s record haul. Nolan Smith had 20 points and the Blue Devils ended No. 6 North Carolina’s run of big comebacks at the ACC tournament.

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Sports Illustrated

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Big East final wrap-up

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YouTube

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

‘Love Wins’: Pastor’s book kindles firestorm over hell

One of the nation’s popular young pastors has stuck a pitchfork in how Christians talk about damnation. The book has pastors and theologians raging that he’s a hipster heretic.

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USA TODAY

John Paul II gets Facebook page

The Vatican will unveil the latest installment in its social media transformation — a Facebook page dedicated to the upcoming beatification of Pope John Paul II.

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New Zealand Herald

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Blog (Alex Lickerman, M.D.):

The faulty premise of regret: Why is it never justified?

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(Psychology Today)

Happiness in This World

Column (Dave Koga):

School property: Does it belong to the state or city?

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Honolulu Star-Advertiser

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A little perspective

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San Francisco Examiner

High gas prices are no reason to hit national reserves

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San Jose Mercury News

Blog (John Cassidy):

Europe gets it wrong (again)

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(The New Yorker)

Rational Irrationality

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The catch-22 of taking antidepressants

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Huffington Post

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The white-hot seat

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

GOP challenge — make reform real

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Star Tribune

Yet again, nature trumps technology

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Detroit Free Press

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GOOD NEWS

New York City plans $3.3B of improvements for waterfront

New York City will announce a $3.3 billion plan for new parks, housing, ferry service and environmental improvements for its 578 miles of shoreline to boost real estate development and recreation.

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Bloomberg

Miraculous rescue: Japanese man saved after floating for 2 days

The tsunami swept away his home — and his wife — but it could not drown his hope as the 60-year-old man clung to his floating roof.

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TIME

How cricket saved Sri Lanka

For Sri Lanka, cricket is much more than a game. After years of war and natural disaster, it’s still the only thing holding their chaotic country together.

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Guardian

WORLD

Chinese premier calls for political reform

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao once again said China needs to carry out political reforms. He said the economic achievements of the last 30 years could be lost without “institutional” changes.

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BBC

Germans piece together millions of lives spied on by Stasi

The East German secret police ripped up much of its archive, but a group is now assembling the scraps of the story.

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Guardian

Arab League asks UN to impose no-fly zone over Libya

The Arab League called on the United Nations Security Council to impose a no-fly zone over Libya to stop air attacks by forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi, Egyptian state television reported.

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BusinessWeek

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Gadhafi rebels pull morale to a new low

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Christian Science Monitor

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Keeping up with Arab world changes

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NPR

BUSINESS

Bad news from all angles seem to greet Wall Street

It may be too close for comfort for stock investors. After seeing oil prices skyrocket from the Libya crisis, investors now must grapple with protests in Saudi Arabia — and the impact of Japan’s earthquake.

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MSNBC

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Japan stock prices plummet amid multiple disasters

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CBS News

GE’s Immelt sees ‘new economic era’

The world has entered “a new economic era” that will be more volatile and more dependent on the growth of emerging economies, says General Electric Chief Executive Jeff Immelt.

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Reuters

HEALTH

OxyContin abuse spreads across US

Ten years ago, OxyContin was being abused at alarming rates in the Appalachian area. A decade later, the level of pain pill abuse across the country is at epic levels, officials say.

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McClatchy Newspapers

Dietary supplements a common recommendation to patients

For physicians within several medical specialties, personal usage of and patient recommendations for dietary supplements are quite common, according to a study published in Nutrition Journal.

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Medical News Today

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

How program applications are changing our phones — and us

Imagine the most exotic use for your cell phone you can think of. More than likely there’s an app for that — the word “app,” as you know, being short for application.

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CBS News

Apple’s iPad 2 has ‘holy grail’ status

Fifteen million iPads later, Apple released its successor, the iPad 2. Many people predicted long lines and sellouts, just like last year. So did Apple deliver?

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LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Travel deals on social media sites

Daily deals, local deals and group deals are flooding subscribers’ inboxes and changing the travel bargain landscape. Big travel names such as Expedia and Travelzoo are getting in the game.

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Arizona Republic

Tough times undermine generosity at biker bar

After spending the past 1,500 or so Sundays making sure he had enough food to give a lot of people a free, hot meal, Don Birch took a Sunday off — a casualty of economic hard times.

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Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Metro Detroit hails all things Irish at annual St. Patrick’s Day parade

From green beards to green tutus, every shade of the color green was on full display at the 53th annual Saint Patrick’s Day parade on Michigan Avenue near downtown Detroit.

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Detroit News

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Homelessness besets more women. How to respond?

Women are the fastest-growing group of people facing homelessness. Organizations, such as one in Los Angeles’ skid row, try a multipronged approach to helping homeless women, starting with housing.

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Christian Science Monitor

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A couple enjoy the sunset on top of an escape tower built to provide protection for residents in case of tsunami in Indonesia. (Photo by Heri Juanda / AP)

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