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A woman wearing a surgical mask walks near Shimbashi train station in Tokyo. The nuclear crisis has triggered international alarm and partly overshadowed the human tragedy caused by Japan’s 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko / AP)

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Mo. farm is an island in a sea of suburbia

Ron and Jolene Benne’s 127-acre farm near St. Louis bumps up against the busy highway. Development has gobbled up the land around them, but the Bennes have a different approach toward growth.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

‘Shorter, clearer’ credit card offers are coming soon

Credit card offers should soon get easier to read. That‘s according to Elizabeth Warren, who’s charged with putting together the new consumer watchdog charged with policing financial products.

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San Francisco Examiner

Japan increases efforts to cool nuclear plants

The number of workers battling the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant is doubled, but leaking radiation has hampered attempts to dump water on some areas and the situation appears to be deteriorating.

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Los Angeles Times

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Radiation from Japan: Why the West Coast shouldn’t worry

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TIME

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Following quakes in fine detail

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Live: NHK World

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Washington Post

Pakistan court acquits CIA contractor after “blood money” deal

A CIA contractor was acquitted of two murder charges and released by a Pakistani court after a deal to pay “blood money” to the victims’ families was reached, Pakistani and U.S. officials said.

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Reuters

States localizing juvenile detention

Driven by budget problems, California and New York are moving to close state youth prisons for good and instead let local governments lock up young offenders.

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USA TODAY

NATION

School buses give ads a ride

The look of school buses hasn’t changed much over the years, but as states scramble for revenue sources, a growing number are advertising for such clients as banks, real estate and insurance agents.

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USA TODAY

Labor backers arrested at Tenn. protest

Troopers forcibly carried out seven union supporters from the Tennessee’s legislative office complex after their protest disrupted a Senate committee hearing.

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AOL News

Nev. boom ends in record number of empty homes

There were 167,564 empty houses in Nevada last year, according to newly released U.S. Census data. The number of vacant homes represents about one out of every seven houses.

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San Francisco Chronicle

POLITICS

John Boehner’s weakened hand

The breakdown in Republican discipline weakens Speaker John Boehner’s hand in budget talks and raises the chances of a government shutdown unless he and President Barack Obama step up their game.

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Politico

As president throws bones to political base, liberal anger wanes

President Barack Obama has appeased elements of his liberal base recently by repealing the “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, reversing course on the Defense of Marriage Act and pursuing gun-control measures.

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The Hill

Nuclear energy lobbyists scramble on Capitol Hill

Lobbyists for the nuclear energy industry rushed to Capitol Hill to try to reassure members of Congress, who are deeply concerned about the nuclear crisis in Japan.

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CNN

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Nuclear industry lobbyists’ clout felt on Hill

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Politico

CRISIS IN JAPAN

Japan nuclear crisis deeply worries Emperor Akihito

Japan’s Emperor Akihito urged people to pull together as the country tries to stave off a full-blown nuclear crisis even as it recovers from last Friday’s devastating earthquake and tsunami.

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CBC News

Americans in Japan voice anxiety over nuclear meltdowns

With radiation levels detected in Tokyo and at two nearby U.S. military bases, alarm is building among Americans in Japan who fear the government and the U.S. military are underplaying the threat.

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McClatchy Newspapers

Radiation exposure: a quick guide to what each level means

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Disaster in Japan

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CBS News

Japan’s pets have rescuers, too

With all the other emergencies Japan is facing, pets aren’t being overlooked and are being taken care of during this tragic time.

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USA TODAY

EDUCATION

Helping students see the point of arguing

Read the comments on any website and you may despair at Americans’ inability to argue well. Educators note the need to for students to leave school with this skill.

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ScienceDaily

Concurrent enrollment smooths students’ path to college

In evolving attempts to smooth the path to college, the number of students enrolled in college classes concurrent with their high school studies is growing.

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Denver Post

Financial aid rock

Pat Watkins, director of financial aid at Eckerd College in Florida, owns her job in the way she knows best — as part of a troupe of balladeers who turn financial aid ironies into ditties.

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Inside Higher Ed

SPORTS

Gridiron gridlock: NFL labor talks start to turn nasty

The outcome of the league’s first work stoppage since 1987 could be decided in court. The first hearing on the players’ request for an injunction to block the owners’ lockout was scheduled for April 6.

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AOL News

Top contender Baker wins the Iditarod

To the sound of Native drummers and cheering fans, John Baker and his team of record-setting huskies claimed victory in the 39th Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

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Anchorage Daily News

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History made as native son wins Iditarod

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CNN

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Professional pope’s lengthy paper trail

Any book with an initial printing of 1.2 million copies in eight languages qualifies as a global publishing event, regardless of its author. But the release of pope’s latest tome was especially remarkable.

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Religion News Service

DOJ sues Calif. over Sikh inmate’s religious rights

The Justice Department is suing the state of California alleging that a Sikh inmate in a San Luis Obispo prison was unfairly disciplined for refusing to trim his beard in adherence to his religion.

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San Jose Mercury News

Columns And Op-Ed

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Damage to teaching profession threatens to be long-lasting

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San Jose Mercury News

Blog (Michael Schuman):

Will Japan’s quake rock the world economy?

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(TIME)

Curious Capitalist

A hitch in the Teacher Tenure Act

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Star Tribune

Libya could become next Afghanistan

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Spiegel International

Await lessons from Japan before shutting off nuclear’s future

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Detroit Free Press

Column (Dan Gillmor):

The rise of citizen photojournalism

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Al Jazeera

Blog (John Yemma):

Japan knows how to rise from the ashes

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(Christian Science Monitor)

Blog (David Jackson):

Europe fails to agree on Libyan no-fly zone; what will Obama do?

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(USA TODAY)

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GOOD NEWS

US death rate at all-time low

The death rate in the United States reached an all-time low in 2009, the 10th straight year of decline, dropping 2.3 percent from 2008, federal health officials report.

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HealthDay

Herbal derivative wins praise as latest malaria treatment

Artesunate should replace quinine as the drug of choice for treating malaria, according to an updated review of clinical trial results.

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HealthDay

12-year-old food grower donates 2 tons of vegetables to homeless

When Katie Stagliano was just nine years old, she planted a cabbage seedling that changed her life. When the cabbage was harvested, it was delivered to a nearby soup kitchen, where it fed 275 people.

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WORLD

Massive online pedophile ring busted; 230 abused children rescued

An internet pedophile ring — thought to be the world’s largest — has been uncovered by police, a security official said. The European police agency Europol said that 230 abused children have been rescued.

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MSNBC

Who pedophiles really are

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Curfew follows Bahrain crackdown

At least six people are reported dead and hundreds injured after security forces in Bahrain drove out pro-democracy protesters from the Pearl Roundabout in the capital, Manama.

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Al Jazeera

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Somalis flee Libya’s violence

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BUSINESS

US housing starts fell in February to lowest since April 2009

Housing starts in the U.S. declined to the slowest pace since April 2009 and building permits slumped to a record low, signs the housing market recovery is limping along as the rest of the economy improves.

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Bloomberg

Infrastructure bank: Plan would leverage federal money

Can the federal government leverage $10 billion in spending into $640 billion in funding to build new roads and bridges?

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CNNMoney

HEALTH

Heavy smoking declines in US

The number of people who smoke a pack or more a day has dropped significantly in the United States.

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HealthDay

Friendly bacteria fight the flu

Helpful bacteria don’t just aid digestion; they also fend off the flu, according to a report published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Nature

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Less mobile Internet at a cheaper price, but is it a fair deal?

New federal rules allow Metro PCS to offer a low-cost plan that blocks access to popular websites on the mobile Internet. Critics say it’s a breach of net neutrality.

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Christian Science Monitor

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A PlayBook for fighting Apple and Google

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Reuters

Little-known US fault lines

Many Americans may not be aware that the San Andreas fault line running along the West Coast is not the only region of the U.S. facing risk of catastrophic earthquakes.

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ABC News

ENVIRONMENT

Arctic may face record loss of ozone

Cold temperatures in the upper atmosphere and the lingering presence of ozone-destroying pollutants have set the stage for what could be a record loss in protective ozone over the Arctic.

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LiveScience

PepsiCo ups ante in ‘green’ bottle push

Two years after Coca-Cola Co. unveiled a bottle made partly from plant materials, PepsiCo has developed the world’s first plastic bottle made entirely from plant-based, fully renewable resources.

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Atlanta Journal-Constitution

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Regulators try to light a fire under culinary schools

America has apparently gone crazy for cooking. With their growing popularity, culinary schools are now under pressure to prove that students graduate with more than just a ton of debt.

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NPR

What is the next chapter for bookshelves and coffee-table tomes?

Books were once powerful symbols of knowledge, wealth and status. With e-readers rapidly turning bookworms into techies, what’s the future for libraries, bookshelves and coffee-table tomes?

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Star Tribune

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

MIT builds game space of the future

Playtime Computing at MIT combines computer graphics projected on a wall and floor, motion-capture sensors and a robot to let children interact with characters.

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Variety

Photo of the Day

People walk up stairs showing the logo of the international book fair in Leipzig, Germany. (Photo by Jens Meyer / AP)

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