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In this photo two girls pose with their Disney Princess dolls during the 58th International Toy Fair in Germany. Researchers say that though Disney’s princes and princesses have evolved they have a way to go before they transform into healthy boys and girls unburdened of gender stereotypes. (Photo by Uwe Lein / AP)

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Disney princesses still slaves to marketing stereotypes

While women may be shedding some of their traditional gender roles, the pretty pink princess culture still abounds in merchandise aimed at young girls.

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LiveScience

The thin envelope: coping with college rejection letters

The plummeting acceptance rates and tough competition in the college market suggests that teens today are likely to face more rejection and higher emotional costs than their predecessors.

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ABC News

Rebels seek cease-fire

Libya’s opposition called for a cease-fire after the U.S. said it’s withdrawing aircraft used to attack Moammar Gadhafi’s forces.

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Bloomberg

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Libya air raid ‘killed civilians’

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BBC

Live from Libya

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(Al Jazeera)

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Gates denies troops will be deployed to Libya, but stays silent on CIA role

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Guardian

America’s new electorate

The 2010 census showed that the minority share of the population has increased in the past decade. If the Democrats can convert that growth into new voters they can get a critical boost in 2012 elections.

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The Atlantic

Employment grew; jobless rate declined

The U.S. economy posted a second straight month of solid gains as the nation’s jobless rate fell to a two-year low of 8.8 percent, marking a decisive shift in the labor market.

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Jobs report: Jobs gain, unemployment falls

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NATION

Last island prison in US closes

After 135 years, McNeil Island Corrections Center will be closed and the water off its shores will no longer be needed to deter escaping prisoners.

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CNN

Wis. suspends enforcement of anti-union law

Wisconsin suspended enforcement of a new law reducing public sector union powers after a judge ruled it had not taken effect, while Ohio enacted a similar measure curbing collective bargaining.

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Reuters

April Fools’ storm threatens ‘major travel disruption’ in the Northeast

A no-joke April Fools’ snowstorm swirled toward the Northeast, a cruel prank on a region that was finally seeing a reprieve from its long, white winter.

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MSNBC

POLITICS

At-risk federal funds cover far more than the birth control pill

Lawmakers are arguing over budget line items and billions of dollars as they try to strike a deal to keep the government running for the rest of the fiscal year.

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NPR

GOP senators all back Toomey balanced-budget bill

Republican Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania has emerged as the deficit hawk’s deficit hawk — and all 47 of his GOP colleagues joined him in sponsoring a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Tea party group: ‘Cut it or shut it’

A small but vocal group of tea party activists gathered outside the Capitol to urge House Republican leaders to hold the line and push for deeper spending cuts in the federal budget.

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The Hill

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Boehner: ‘There’s no agreement on numbers’

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ABC News

CRISIS IN JAPAN

Workers at Japan’s nuke power plant expect to die

The workers at Japan’s stricken nuclear power plant — known as the Fukushima 50 — expect some of them will die within weeks or months, one worker’s mother has reportedly said.

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MSNBC

Farmers struggle as nuclear emergency continues

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ABC News

Japan under pressure to widen nuclear evacuation zone

Pressure is mounting on Japan to expand the evacuation zone around the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, as the prime minister says he plans to review the country’s nuclear energy policy.

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Guardian

Special section:

Japan’s nuclear concerns

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CNN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

So much for privacy? New sites share every step you take online

Betting that the trend toward online exhibitionism isn’t letting up anytime soon, a few new startups let you publicize your browsing history, while giving you a peek at where your friends click online too.

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ABC News

Smart thermostats outwit users

Programmable thermostats, which now make up about half the U.S. sales of all thermostats, could be more trouble for some than they’re worth.

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Scientific American

HEALTH

MSU researcher awarded $3.3M grant to help overweight, poor mothers

A Michigan State University researcher has been awarded a five-year, $3.3 million federal grant to help low-income mothers who are overweight or obese improve their health.

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Detroit Free Press

Incidents of lung cancer, deaths down in women, report shows

Lung cancer mortality in women decreased for the first time in four decades, according to a report showing that overall rate of cancer mortality have declined since 2003.

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SPORTS

Do not discount ‘undercard’ teams Butler, VCU as legit title threats

Sometimes one national semifinal appears to showcase the two best remaining teams while the other seems to be a warm-up act between two schools just happy to be on such a grand stage.

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Sports Illustrated

Ramon Hernandez‘s 3-run home run in 9th caps Reds’ rally

Ramon Hernandez hit a two-out, three-run homer in the bottom of the ninth inning rallying Cincinnati to a 7-6 victory over Milwaukee in an opening-day flashback to its championship season.

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ESPN

Columns And Op-Ed

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Medicaid in the crosshairs

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GOP’s criticism of Libya

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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Donald Trump adds to ‘birthers’ madness

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McClatchy Newspapers

In Middle East, familiar echoes about limits of US power

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USA TODAY

Obama’s latest vision on energy security

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Christian Science Monitor

Column (Jaswant Singh):

India: a corrupt dynasty or democracy?

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Al Jazeera

Column (David Weigel):

The tea party isn’t as ‘extreme’ as Dems would like it to be

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Slate

Column (Mahmood Mamdani):

Libya: politics of humanitarian intervention

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Al Jazeera

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GOOD NEWS

Detroit pastor turns 92, plans to keep working in church

Monsignor Peter Lentine enjoys working so much that even after turning 92, he has no plans to retire from his job. He has been a priest for six decades, spending the last 44 years as pastor of St. Philomena Parish.

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Detroit Free Press

Compost company turns food waste into big profit

Mike Bacon has spent the past dozen years turning leaves, grass and horse manure into rich, crumbly compost. But in the past six months he has added a magic ingredient: food scraps.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Recent estimates show that highway deaths fall to lowest level since 1949

Highway deaths have plummeted to their lowest levels in more than 60 years, helped by more people wearing seat belts, better safety equipment in cars and efforts to curb drunken driving.

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Las Vegas Review Journal

WORLD

Iran rejects Kuwait spy cell allegation

Iran dismissed the Kuwaiti claims as baseless and Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said the Islamic republic did not interfere in Kuwait‘s internal affairs, Iran’s official news agency reported.

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Al Jazeera

Ivory Coast: Gbagbo and Ouattara in Abidjan battle

Troops supporting the UN-recognized president of Ivory Coast, Alassane Ouattara, appear poised for a final push to oust his rival, Laurent Gbagbo, who refuses to give up the presidency.

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BBC

Israel holds secret Russia talks in bid to thwart recognition of Palestinian state

Israeli officials are attempting to dissuade Russia from supporting the European Union’s plan for the establishment of a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders.

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Haaretz

BUSINESS

CEO pay soars while workers’ pay stalls

The heads of the nation’s top companies got the biggest raises in recent memory last year after taking a hiatus during the recession. Median CEO pay jumped 27 percent in 2010.

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USA TODAY

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Mortgage finance giants and fat salaries

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Reuters

The rise of ‘hi-tech’ vending machines

Vending machines used to just swallow your money. Now they sell anything from drinks to live crabs — and can even offer a lifeline in times of disaster.

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Guardian

American Apparel posts yearly loss, may file for bankruptcy

Hipster brand American Apparel posted a loss of $86 million in 2010 and said it may have to file for bankruptcy protection.

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Reuters

EDUCATION

Minnesota losing its new teachers

The number of new teaching hires in Minnesota has dropped by more than half in the past 11 years as baby-boomer-age teachers postpone retirement and schools’ battered budgets force annual layoffs.

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Star Tribune

Gov. Scott Walker launches 3rd grade reading initiative

Students will have to show that they can read at a 3rd-grade level before they can advance to 4th-grade as part of an initiative Gov. Scott Walker announced.

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

ENVIRONMENT

Vulnerable gorilla owes fate to climate change and humans

A now endangered group of gorillas split off into its own subspecies about 17,800 years ago, say researchers. The evolution of the Cross River gorilla was shaped by climate change and humans.

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LiveScience

Online ire comes to terms with ‘urban homesteading’ trademark

Urban homesteaders are city dwellers who turn their yards into miniature farms. It has become a full-fledged movement, but the term is trademarked.

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Denver Post

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Army group organization says there ARE atheists in foxholes

Atheists, agnostics, humanists and other skeptics from the Army’s Fort Bragg have formed an organization to ensure fair treatment for nonbelievers in the overwhelmingly Christian U.S. military.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

New museum to use science to tell Bible’s history

An interactive Bible museum was announced in a private exhibition at the Vatican Embassy. The exhibit contained Jewish, Roman Catholic and Protestant treasures from the future museum.

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USA TODAY

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Women on a binge

It was mainly frat boys who generated headlines for waking up hazed and dazed in the ER — if they woke up at all. However, some colleges have found a new cause for concern: women drinking dangerously.

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TIME

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Booze Britain: Now 5th of women are drinking too much

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Daily Mail

Procrastination found to be an effective way to deal with stress

Avoidance techniques such as sleep, play and spending time with loved ones may be the ticket to less conflict while juggling the various demands of work, family and school, according to recent research.

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AOL News

On the trail of chief Holocaust organizer Adolf Eichmann

Ultimately, the case of “The State of Israel v. Adolf Eichmann” would revolve around the Holocaust in general. Courtroom footage would flicker across television screens from San Francisco to Berlin.

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Spiegel International

Maps of the Holocaust

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PBS

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

How to flee the Facebook frenzy

Facebook offers a world of online distractions, yet for all the social network‘s virtues it still exudes the faint odor of its potential ills.

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Christian Science Monitor

Photo of the Day

Artists hold up lights at a charity concert “Artistes 311 Love Beyond Borders” in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong entertainment industry staged a concert to raise funds for victims of Japan’s massive earthquake and tsunami. (Photo by Kin Cheung / AP)

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