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Teachers’ aide Esmeralda Calderon, left, readies 1-year-old David Valente, at the Para Los Ninos early childhood center in Los Angeles. The 2011 budget deal will cut some grants for community service jobs for senior citizens. (Photo by Damian Dovarganes / AP)

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Pakistan’s transgender tax collectors

If you miss your tax deadline in the United States, you might get a nasty letter at your door. In Karachi, Pakistan, you might get “transgender” tax collectors — whose weapons include a little lipstick.

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CNN

Hooked on drugs, medical world really needs change

Top dogs from the medical community gathered to share their endeavors at combating global diseases a day before the release of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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Al Jazeera

Congress sends budget compromise to Obama

Congress has sent President Obama bipartisan legislation making $38 billion in spending cuts to see the government through the rest of the fiscal year.

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NPR

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House prepares to vote on $6B spending cuts

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Forbes

GOP tried to ‘sneak’ agenda into budget

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Political Hotsheet

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Programs on the chopping block

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Wall Street Journal

Same-sex families get a boost from tax rules

Some same-sex couples have to file their federal income taxes in a new way this year. For some of those couples, it means they’ll save a lot of money.

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NPR

Um, uh … speech stumbles help toddlers learn new words

Stuck with a word on the tip of your tongue when talking to a toddler? Don’t worry — a new study finds that adults’ hesitant speech may help the kid learn new vocabulary.

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LiveScience

NATION

FAA official resigns over some sleeping air traffic controllers

The U.S. official overseeing air traffic operations resigned over a controversy involving disclosures about sleeping air traffic controllers.

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Reuters

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LaHood: Air traffic control issues ‘outrageous’

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CBS News

Nuclear neighbors: Population rises near US reactors

Who’s afraid of nuclear power? Not the American people, judging by where they choose to live.

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MSNBC

Special section:

The great energy challenge

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National Geographic

Population within 10 and 50 miles of nuclear power plants

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MSNBC

Census: Hispanics surpass blacks in most US metros

Hispanics now outnumber African-Americans for the first time in most U.S. metropolitan areas, shifting the political and racial dynamics in cities once dominated by whites and blacks.

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San Francisco Chronicle

POLITICS

DeMint demands Constitution be changed to ban federal debt

Sen. Jim DeMint, who has wrought chaos in Congress over earmarks, immigration and health care, is preparing a crusade that would make those fights look tame.

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McClatchy Newspapers

More states restrict abortions; group says trend ‘unparalleled’

As two states imposed the latest rounds of laws against abortion or its providers, a new study contends “hostility” toward abortion rights is on the rise in legislatures across the country.

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CNN

HEALTH

Healthy breast cells help kill cancer cells

Healthy cells in breast tissue secrete an anti-cancer protein that instructs malignant cells to self-destruct, leaving healthy cells intact, according to new research.

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Medical News Today

CDC study: Suicide rates rise and fall with the economy

The suicide rate in the United States rises when the economy slumps and falls when economic times improve. And this has been the case at least since the Great Depression, the CDC says in a new study.

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WebMD

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Tough times in America

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Spiegel International

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Hunting for planets from the comfort of your own home

A project dreamed up by Yale astronomer Debra Fischer has turned out to be very useful. Planethunters.org lets ordinary folks with no training help find planets the Kepler software has missed.

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TIME

A look at shape of the eye reveals killer habits of dinosaurs

Velociraptors, those clever carnivores that hunted in packs in the Jurassic Park films, may have been night hunters.

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NPR

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Dinosaurs that loved the nightlife

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Quantum leap: Bits of light teleported to another place

Our world is getting closer to “Star Trek” every day, it seems. Scientists announced they’ve been able to teleport special bits of light from one place to another.

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LiveScience

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Maya mystery solved by important volcanic discovery

Even at ancient Maya cities far from volcanoes, ash rained down relatively frequently, according to a “spectacularly important” new study.

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National Geographic

ABC cancels longtime soaps ‘All My Children,’ ‘One Life to Live’

ABC is making the long-anticipated move of canceling the long-running soap operas “All My Children” and “One Life to Live,” consigning them to television history.

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Variety

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Susan Lucci through the years

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

ENVIRONMENT

Aftershocks: What are they?

The U.S. Geological Survey reports that 59 aftershocks have been reported in or near Japan, including four with a magnitude of 6.0 or above.

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USA TODAY

Pacific salmon may be dying from leukemia-type virus

In Canada’s Fraser River, a mysterious illness has killed millions of Pacific salmon, and scientists have a new hypothesis about why: viral infections.

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McClatchy Newspapers

Columns And Op-Ed

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Smokers’ rights

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Telegram & Gazette

Budget cuts are the dollar’s savior

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Christian Science Monitor

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Barry Bonds faces jail time while Wall Street execs sit pretty

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Working Capital

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Houston Chronicle

Can’t call it justice

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Austin Raynor):

Bailout or dropout?

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Make online retailers pay tax, too

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Honolulu Star-Advertiser

Blog (Chris Gayomali):

How technology influences the new American family

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GOOD NEWS

No sign of global economy stalling

Surging inflation pressures and the natural disasters that ravaged Japan look like they will be unlikely to stall an ascendant global economy, a Reuters poll of around 350 economists showed.

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Reuters

Close-knit neighborhoods raise chances of stroke survival

Seniors living in neighborhoods where they have a lot of interaction with their neighbors stand a much better chance of surviving a stroke, a new study suggests.

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HealthDay

Tigers could reappear in Kazakhstan under new plan

Russia, together with the government and experts of the Republic of Kazakhstan, announced a new program to return tigers to the region.

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Environmental News Network

WORLD

Japanese government orders nuclear plant to pay compensation

The Japanese government has ordered the operator of the nuclear plant damaged by the recent quake and tsunami to pay compensation to affected families.

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BBC

Western leaders insist ‘Gadhafi must go’

Leaders of Britain, France and the United States have vowed to continue their military campaign in Libya until Moammar Gadhafi leaves power.

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Al Jazeera

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Rebel leader recounts daring trip to ‘courageous’ Misrata, Libya

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NPR

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Libya: Col. Moammar Gadhafi ‘parades through Tripoli in a jeep’

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Telegraph.co.uk

Afghan mullahs push peaceful protest in wake of Quran-burning violence

More Qurans were inadvertently burned during recent Afghan protests than by the U.S. pastor Terry Jones. Spiritual leaders in Kandahar called a meeting to teach Afghans how to channel their passions.

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Christian Science Monitor

BUSINESS

Ford expands recall of F-150 pickups

Ford Motor Co. is expanding a recall of F-150 and Lincoln Mark LT pickup trucks because federal regulators have warned that unwanted driver’s side air bag deployments have resulted in injuries.

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Detroit Free Press

Who wants to be a triple trillionaire?

By the end of last year, China’s foreign-exchange reserves amounted to $2.85 trillion. China’s central bank released new figures showing that its reserves have now soared above $3 trillion.

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Economist

EDUCATION

What’s ‘good enough’?

Some colleges are reporting graduation rates in the single digits and that students were emerging from college with inadequate skills. Critics argue it’s time to hold colleges accountable for their results.

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Inside Higher Ed

Computer tutors prod students to speak up and ask for help

Researchers have found that students will go to extreme lengths to avoid asking for help when working on computer-based tutoring programs.

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Why NJ teacher-tenure reform plan matters to the rest of America

While New Jersey governor Chris Christie’s new proposal continues the national debate over how to reform teacher tenure, seven other states have passed or are considering similar legislation.

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Christian Science Monitor

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Education reform awaits vote

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Chicago Sun-Times

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Jesus Christ the man: Does the physical evidence hold up?

Jesus Christ may be the most famous man who ever lived. Most theological historians, Christian and non-Christian alike, believe that Jesus really did walk the Earth. But how do we know he did?

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LiveScience

18 years after Waco, Davidians believe Koresh was God

Sheila Martin and a handful of other surviving Branch Davidians will gather at a hotel in Central Texas to remember the federal siege on their religious compound.

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CNN

SPORTS

Report: MLB leans toward extra replay

Major League Baseball is leaning toward expanding replay for the 2012 season to include trapped balls and fair-or-foul rulings down the lines.

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ESPN

Kings say their possible farewell with loss to Lakers

Los Angeles Lakers regrouped to hand the Kings a 116-108 loss in what might have been the last game ever in California’s capital city.

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Houston Chronicle

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

U want a job? Help for ‘gen text’

Blame texting. Blame tweeting. Blame the relaxation of social norms. Regardless of the cause, many of today‘s young adults are a bit thin on the do’s-and-don’ts of the interviewing process.

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A woman carries a bundle of clothes during a thunderstorm on the banks of the River Brahmaputra in Gauhati, India. (Photo by Anupam Nath / AP)

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