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Libyan women supporting Gadhafi stage a demonstration in Tripoli, Libya. Gadhafi warned international forces they would “regret” intervening in Libya. (Photo by Jerome Delay / AP)

At ground zero, the future finally appears

The noise at ground zero is a steady roar. Engines hum. Cement mixers churn. Air horns blast. Cranes, including one that looks like a giant crab leg, soar and crawl over every corner of the 16-acre site.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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National September 11 Memorial & Museum

Apple’s svelte new iPad 2: its weight-loss secrets revealed

Apple actually added hardware to the iPad 2, yet the tablet computer is noticeably thinner and lighter than the original. Is its weight-loss secret magic? Or maybe a little bit of tech surgery.

San Jose Mercury News

Gadhafi defiant after coalition missile

French fighter jets soared over Libya to counter Moammar Gadhafi’s military forces who were intent on destroying the opposition as they pushed into the rebel stronghold of Benghazi.

CNN

French fighter jets hit first Libyan targets as coalition mobilizes

ABC News

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Protests spread across Middle East and Northern Africa: interactive map

ABC News

Fighter jet ‘shot down’ over Benghazi

BBC

Few ever see a wild Fla. panther, but a photographer scores a trifecta

Serious wildlife photographers all dream about the one flesh-and-blood creature that is almost as spectral as a unicorn: the spectacularly camera-shy Florida panther.

St. Petersburg Times

Outgrowing milk allergy may take some babies longer than expected

Children may not be outgrowing their allergy to milk as quickly as experts previously have believed. In a study of 244 children with a confirmed milk allergy, just over a third outgrew it within 30 months.

HealthDay

NATION

Houston, ‘Space City,’ fears snub on latest space shuttle

Houston may be the home of astronauts, mission control and the space shuttle program itself, but the city likely faces an increasingly uphill battle to obtain an orbiter for public display.

Houston Chronicle

NASA through the years

Detroit Free Press

Labor in full roar again but not the same

In the bitter aftermath of a showdown with Wisconsin’s governor, and as other states move to weaken public employee bargaining rights, unions and their allies hope they can turn rage into revival.

Star Tribune

Immigration reform: glimpse of the future in Ariz. and Utah?

The business community was instrumental in defeating an Arizona birthright-citizenship bill and passing a Utah guest-worker program, suggesting it could be a key force on immigration reform.

Christian Science Monitor

In Iowa, growing number of Latino workers report they aren’t paid wages

Des Moines Register

POLITICS

Former Secretary of State Warren Christopher passes at 85

The 85-year-old statesman died at his home in Los Angeles of complications from bladder and kidney cancer, said Sonja Steptoe of the law firm O’Melveny & Myers, where Christopher was a senior partner.

Christian Science Monitor

In NH return, Rudy Giuliani comes out swinging at opponents

Rudy Giuliani returned to the Granite State giving a speech that lambasted President Barack Obama, jabbed Mitt Romney’s health plan and praised the tea party.

Politico

CRISIS IN JAPAN

Japan halts sale of food from near Fukushima reactors

Japan’s top government spokesman said tests detected radiation above the national safety level in spinach and milk produced near the Fukushima nuclear plant.

Reuters

Couple remembers 3 Mile Island

By contrast to Japan’s nuclear crisis, there was a subtlety to the way events began in 1979 in the middle of Pennsylvania’s Susquehanna River.

Telegram & Gazette

Japan a week later

Detroit Free Press

Americans less generous in Japan disaster relief efforts?

A week after Japan was crippled by an earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis, there’s no telethon on the horizon, and little sign Americans are giving as feverishly as they have before.

ABC News

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Libya — latest developments on no-fly zone, cease-fire and Benghazi

(Guardian)

News Blog

Building a tsunami bunker

MSNBC

EDUCATION

Pressure mounts for the Texas Board of Education to redo curriculum

Pressure on the State Board of Education to reopen controversial social studies curriculum standards increased when three House Republican leaders expressed discomfort with the new standards.

Houston Chronicle

District-scholar partnerships yield new insights for cooperation

A set of in-depth partnerships between researchers and the nation’s largest school systems is bearing fruit, both in new studies and greater insights into how districts and researchers can work together.

Education Week

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Missionaries in Japan labor to stay safe

Across the devastated country and back home in the United States, leaders of missions are grappling with whether staffers should stay put or move away.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Chick-fil-A executive touts Bible as chain’s blueprint

Dan Cathy doesn’t just want to feed you chicken, he also wants to feed your soul. He doesn’t give the typical sort of corporate-speak you would expect to hear from the leader of a major fast-food chain.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Domain geared for adult entertainment approved for Internet

There’s a new red light district being created — just for the Web. A nonprofit group in charge of Internet addresses approved a movement to add the internet domain “.xxx” for pornographic websites.

NY Daily News

Facebook fibs can cause real angst for teenage girls, Scout study finds

Surveying 1,000 teen girls who use social media, the Girl Scouts found those with low self-esteem were more likely to project themselves through social media in ways that didn’t match their personalities.

Star Tribune

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Columns And Op-Ed

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The slide into depression: untold stories

(Psychology Today)

Charting the Depths

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Even in the 15th century, ye were still worth it

Scotsman

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Renewables or nuclear: Maybe we do have to choose

Grist

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Mr. O’Bama

Philadelphia Inquirer

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Sounds like team spirit

Charlotte Observer

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Democracy limitation

RealClearPolitics

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Making the cut in 2011

Science

Column (John Dickerson):

You can’t be serious

Slate

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West overzealous on Libya

Al Jazeera

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GOOD NEWS

New blood analysis chip could lead to disease diagnosis in minutes

A major milestone in microfluidics could lead to stand-alone, self-powered chips that can diagnose diseases within minutes by processing whole blood samples without external tubing and extra components.

ScienceDaily

Divorce-cations? Split couples travel together for the kids

Actor Bruce Willis has done it. So has Britain’s Prince Andrew and media mogul Arianna Huffington. They’ve all vacationed with their ex-spouses and kids.

USA TODAY

With the 1st hint of spring comes the draw of water ice

On the block, a young couple sat nestled on front steps, and the line outside of Morrone’s Water Ice grew and grew. Morrone’s secret? Texture.

Philadelphia Inquirer

WORLD

Brazilians welcome Obama as their own

As President Barack Obama arrives in Brazil, there’ll be talk of trade and geopolitics. There will also be plenty of excitement about the arrival of the black man who became U.S. president.

NPR

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Obama touts Latin America trip as jobs producer for US

(USA TODAY)

The Oval

US military families torn over evacuation

The first U.S. Air Force flight to evacuate military family members from Japan lifted off from Yokota Air Force Base, carrying 233 people, nine pet dogs and a sea of mixed feelings.

McClatchy Newspapers

BUSINESS

US cost of living hits record

One would think that after the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, Americans could catch a break for a while with deflationary forces keeping the cost of living low. That’s not the case.

USA TODAY

20 cities you don’t want to live in — yet

CNBC

Cargo-bike coffee shop rolls out

Urban-transportation experts say the cargo-bike business, originated in Holland, is the next wave in the food-truck movement.

Denver Post

HEALTH

FDA puts early Alzheimer’s test on hold

The FDA won’t approve florbetapir — widely touted as a breakthrough for early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease — until its manufacturer puts a training program in place.

MedPage Today

Negative emotions surface as we exert more self-control in our daily choices

People who make an effort to exert self-control are attracted to aggressive art and public policy appeals, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research.

Medical News Today

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Super full moon in the skies

During what some skywatchers are calling the “supermoon,” the moon won’t just be at its closest approach to Earth in its elliptical orbit, it will be closer than it has been in 18 years.

ABC News

App gives fans direct line to concessions

Any sports fan who has ever missed a big play will appreciate the Yorder application. Co-founder Kenji Kato believes the app could revolutionize food concessions at sporting events and concerts.

San Francisco Chronicle

ENVIRONMENT

Canadian nuclear plant leaks radioactive water into Lake Ontario

With all the focus placed on the Japanese radiation leak as well as the toxic plume of radioactive particles heading for the United States, another potential disaster is receiving virtually no attention.

PlanetSave.com

Spring starts with soggy weather

A storm pounded the Bay Area with heavy rain and winds so vicious they kicked up a tornado that ripped apart a shed in Santa Rosa, Calif.

San Francisco Chronicle

SPORTS

Balanced scoring, tough defense carry Marquette past Xavier

The 31 percent that Xavier, regionally seeded sixth, shot in the first half is the statistic that speaks the truth about the devastation visited upon the team by Marquette’s defense.

Sporting News

LeBron brings hot hand into Heat’s matchup vs. Denver

LeBron James single-handedly put the Miami Heat back into the win column with a precise shooting performance at Atlanta. The two-time reigning MVP looks to lead the Heat past Denver in a home matchup.

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