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Libyan youths sit by graffiti depicting Moammar Gadhafi in a derogatory manner, center-left, on a street in Benghazi, Libya. Moammar Gadhafi’s forces bombarded the city of Ajdabiya, striking the strategic gateway to rebel-held eastern Libya. (Photo by Ben Curtis / AP)

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Amortality: It’s no longer necessary to act your age

Youth used to be our last hurrah before the onset of maturity and eventual dotage, each milestone benchmarked against culturally determined ideals. But the ages of man have started to elide.

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TIME

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Gold-plated, high-end retirement communities for growing old gracefully

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San Jose Mercury News

‘Robot journalist’ out-writes human

OK, so it’s not really a robot — it’s a software program. When you feed it data, it processes it and it spits out a news story putting those numbers you gave it into context.

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NPR

Gadhafi forces attack rebels near Ajdabiyah

Moammar Gadhafi’s forces fired rockets on Libyan rebels stationed on the western edge of Ajdabiyah, prompting some residents to flee the strategic eastern town, witnesses said.

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Reuters

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West seeking country of refuge for Gadhafi

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A look at Libyan rebels’ workshop

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Al Jazeera

Storm leaves at least 37 dead in the South

A furious storm system that kicked up tornadoes, flash floods and hail has left at least 37 people dead on a rampage that has stretched for days as it barreled from Oklahoma to North Carolina and Virginia.

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Houston Chronicle

New warning of poisonous chemicals used to extract natural gas

Chemicals used to extract natural gas from vast areas of the United States include “extremely toxic substances, such as benzene and lead,” according to a new report.

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Christian Science Monitor

NATION

BMI may not be telling the whole truth

The measurement is used to determine weight health, which then helps determine susceptibility to certain diseases. But a number of experts caution that the tool is fairly imprecise and often wrong.

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Los Angeles Times

At least 40 killed in US storms

Powerful storms that have ripped across the Southeast killed as many as 44 people over the past three days, according to National Weather Service and reports from several states.

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CNN

Dynamic cities key to nation’s future

Vibrant, dynamic cities hold mankind’s best hope for the future despite chronic problems with housing, transportation and crumbling services, according to some big names in public policy.

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McClatchy Newspapers

Census’ fastest-growing cities of the decade

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(Forbes)

POLITICS

Defiant US ambassador rebuked for faith-based writing asks to resign

The U.S. ambassador to Malta has submitted his resignation a week after he was called out in a State Department report for devoting time to writing about religion at the expense of his official duties.

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CNN

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US ambassador criticized for religious activism resigns

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Yahoo! News

Budget debate shifts to debt ceiling

An escalating national debate on federal deficits and government spending focused on the upcoming deadline for Congress to increase the amount of money that the United States can borrow.

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CNN

Stamp takes liberty with US icon

Officials of the U.S. Post Office failed to realize the photo of the Statue of Liberty used on the first-class stamp was of a fiberglass and Styrofoam replica at a gambling casino in Las Vegas.

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Guardian

HEALTH

Energy drinks with alcohol more harmful

Energy drinks mixed with alcohol, such as Red Bull and vodka, have become trendy, but a new laboratory study has found that the mixture is riskier than drinking alcohol alone.

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Food expiration dates

It’s a question millions of us try to answer every day: How long is food safe to eat after its sell-by date has passed?

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CBS News

Radiation may help in low doses

The wind whistled innocently through the opening in the sliding glass door. Rushing in from a buttermilk sky, it gave no hint of radioactive traces from damaged nuclear reactors thousands of miles away.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Why calling 911 can be an emergency

Americans assume we can connect to 911 in all the ways we connect to each other. Unfortunately, the new technologies aren’t compatible with standard 911.

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TIME

Artifacts tell the stories of St. Louis

Locked away in vast strongrooms is a priceless cache of more than 150,000 artifacts chronicling St. Louis and the Midwest.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Old McRobot? High-tech future farms

Commercial farms of the future may be staffed by robots that will identify, spray and pick individual pieces of produce from plants.

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ABC News

Where solar power can’t fly, artificial photosynthesis might

To fly a jet by solar power might take football-fields worth of solar cells; but to turn sunlight into liquid fuel via artificial photosynthesis could someday power jet airplanes.

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Christian Science Monitor

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Dalai Lama: Clash at Tibetan monastery in China could turn ‘explosive’

A five-day stand-off between monks and armed police at a Tibetan monastery in western China could become “explosive,” the Dalai Lama has warned.

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Guardian

What effect has the Internet had on religious practices?

The concept of religious ritual is so deeply embedded in our social fabric that it is natural for it to have made the leap to virtuality. And it hasn’t just reared its head in worlds such as Second Life.

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Untangling the Web with Aleks Krotoski

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Pope spends 84th birthday working

Pope Benedict XVI spent his 84th birthday at work, making appointments, giving a speech and receiving top aides while well wishes arrived from around the world, including Queen Elizabeth II.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Why they call it multilateral foreign policy

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Miami Herald

Column (Rob Christensen):

Our Founding Fathers were just as crass as today’s politicians

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McClatchy Newspapers

Blog (John R. Schafer, Ph.D.):

The ethical trap

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Let Their Words Do the Talking

(Psychology Today)

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Audio (David Welna):

House’s budget blueprint draws up party lines

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NPR

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The sun will rise again in stricken Japan

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Al Jazeera

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Hostages

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Houston Chronicle

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Gray wolf’s defenders up in arms

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Denver Post

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GOOD NEWS

Islanders rescue rockhopper penguins threatened by oil slick

A dramatic rescue is coming to an end on Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic. Thousands of endangered penguins were saved in a month-long operation involving all of the islands’ inhabitants.

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Guardian

Healing Hands provides surgery in needy countries

Four friends began their own nonprofit, Healing Hands Foundation. They focused on providing surgical care to underprivileged people around the world.

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Daryl Hannah to receive 2011 Environmental Hero award

Actress and filmmaker Daryl Hannah has been selected to receive the 2011 Environmental Hero award at Santa Barbara Earth Day Festival.

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Santa Barbara Independent

WORLD

Radioactivity rises in sea off Japan nuclear plant

The rise in radioactivity could have been caused by the installation of steel panels which may have stirred up waste, but the increase in iodine-131 could signal the possibility of a new leak.

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San Jose Mercury News

Cuba celebrates 50th anniversary of Bay of Pigs victory

A military and civilian parade led by thousands of young people paid homage to the leaders of Cuba’s revolution on the 50th anniversary of the defeat of a CIA-backed exile invasion.

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CBS News

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Cuba celebrates 50 years since the Bay of Pigs invasion

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BBC

BUSINESS

As feared: Cybercriminals prey on Epsilon data breach victims

People whose identities may have been compromised by March’s massive Epsilon data breach are now facing a new threat to their security. Since the data breach, a phony Epsilon website has sprung up.

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MSNBC

Epsilon breach: hack of the century?

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Very rich nations’ policies merit oversight: IMF members

IMF member nations, acknowledging resistance from emerging markets to limits on capital controls, said rich nations’ policies that spur large capital outflows also need oversight.

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Reuters

EDUCATION

For-profit colleges face state crackdowns as US rules delayed

For-profit colleges, criticized by the U.S. for their recruitment practices, are facing increased state regulations as the government weighs measures to tighten access to federal student aid.

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Telegram & Gazette

Technology may help make language click for students

In this gateway class to high school reading and writing, Cari Roberts wields every tool available to lift students toward “new literacies,” the confluence of language and technology that’s evolving.

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Denver Post

ENVIRONMENT

Built Green program works on putting environment 1st

Built Green is steering the Canadian construction industry toward sustainable practices. The organization has more than 700 members, mostly home builders, but also suppliers and manufacturers.

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‘Solar fuel’ research mimics photosynthesis

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(CNET News)

Green Tech

Oil spill chief reflects a year later

Retired Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen was the face of the government during the 87 days that BP’s Macondo well spewed more than four million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.

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Reuters

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Gulf oil spill: 1 year later what questions do you want answered?

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ABC News

SPORTS

Sixers fall to Heat in Game 1, 97-89

For almost every minute of Game 1 at AmericanAirlines Arena, the Sixers dropped their heads, sweat pouring from their brows, and tried to slay the monster.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Josh Beckett, Jed Lowrie key as Red Sox win only 3rd game

Josh Beckett had his second straight strong start, holding Toronto to one run over seven innings, lifting the struggling Red Sox to a 4-1 victory over the Blue Jays.

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ESPN

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Higher hate group count than ever

A new study by the Southern Poverty Law Center describes a big rise in hate groups across the country. By its count, there are now more than 1,000 active extremist groups in the U.S.

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NPR

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An Afghan girl juggles tennis balls during the World Circus Day organized by Afghan Educational Children Circus and Mobile Mini Circus for Children in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Hossein Fatemi / AP)

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