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A personalized sign memorializing U.S. serviceman, First Lt. Michael L. LiCalzi and reading “Some things are not in vain,” hangs on a fence surrounding ground zero in New York after Osama bin Laden was killed in a U.S. led raid in Pakistan. (Photo by Kathy Willens / AP)

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Anatomy of a $500,000 credit card fraud

While it may sound like the plot of a Hollywood heist movie, anyone who understands how credit works can easily game the system.

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CNNMoney

Military personnel with mental woes before deployment at higher PTSD risk

Military personnel who have a psychiatric disorder prior to deployment or who’ve been injured during combat are more likely to develop post-traumatic stress disorder after they return home.

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HealthDay

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Vets with PTSD train service dogs

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WebMD

The kids with George Bush on 9/11

There has rarely been a starker juxtaposition of evil and innocence than the moment President George W. Bush got the news about 9/11 while reading “The Pet Goat” with second-graders in Florida.

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TIME

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Pervez Musharraf: Bin Laden hideout not Pakistan ISI’s fault

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CBS News

Bin Laden reading guide: How to cut through the coverage

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The ProPublica Blog

Special section:

Osama bin Laden

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PBS

Hero or zero: Is a powerful CEO good news or bad?

When it comes to corporate governance, what’s best for a company may also be what’s most difficult to put into practice, according to a new study examining the impact of “dominant” chief executives.

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Globeandmail.com

Biography highlights woman who raised Barack Obama

Janny Scott’s biography of Obama’s mother, “A Singular Woman,” traces Stanley Ann Dunham’s life and the relationship she had with her son.

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NPR

NATION

The long war against deadly tornadoes

The recent tornadoes that caused massive destruction and loss of lives across U.S. echoes another era more than 100 years ago — a time when humans began trying to outwit and even defeat tornadoes.

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NPR

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FEMA seeks to redeem agency reputation

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Scouts rescued from Ark. wilderness area

Six Louisiana Boy Scouts stranded by high water in an Arkansas forest ate jambalaya, eggs and grits while awaiting their rescue. They said they never feared camping in an area where 20 people had died in a flood.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Mississippi River flood levee blown up

Flames shot up and a loud boom was heard as the U.S. government blew a hole in a Mississippi River flood levee in a bid to save several towns in Illinois and Kentucky from being inundated.

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Reuters

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Levee blasted to divert rising floodwaters

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MSNBC

POLITICS

Obama to ramp up immigration fight

President Barack Obama is ramping up his push to overhaul the country’s immigration system, launching a sustained personal campaign to pressure Congress into taking up the issue.

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Politico

The new voting majority

For the first time, Americans 45 and older make up the voting majority, giving older Americans wider influence in elections as the U.S. stands divided over curtailing Medicare and other benefits for seniors.

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Star Tribune

No big tax cuts for Fla. businesses

Florida’s lawmakers blocked Gov. Rick Scott’s aggressive plan to cut corporate income taxes by $459 million in fiscal 2012.

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CNNMoney

DEATH OF BIN LADEN

Why bin Laden’s death brought America together for 1 night

The announcement that al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden had been killed sent hundreds spilling into the streets in what sociologists and psychologists say is a rare moment of American unity.

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LiveScience

Osama: What happened to his body?

U.S. officials say Osama bin Laden’s body was treated with respect and buried at sea, but some Muslims argue there was no good reason for not burying it on land.

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BBC

Bin Laden’s hard drive being examined

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World Watch

Questions linger after bin Laden’s death

After a day of exaltation over the death of Osama bin Laden, questions remain about who might take over his terrorist group and whether material gathered from his compound might prove useful.

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CNN

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Osama bin Laden’s death polishes CIA’s public image

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McClatchy Newspapers

BUSINESS

How some made millions betting against the market

In 2006 and 2007, several banks and hedge funds realized what was happening to the U.S. economy while it was happening — and then made vast fortunes by betting against the markets.

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NPR

Southwest-AirTran merger could bring ticket-price creep

Southwest Airlines completed its $1 billion acquisition of AirTran Airways, combining Northeast Ohio’s two leading low-cost carriers into one.

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Plain Dealer

ENVIRONMENT

Overfishing hits all creatures

New research shows that when a marine ecosystem is threatened, it’s the small fry at the low end of the food chain that may be more prone to population collapse.

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Nature

Hydrogen fuel tech gets boost from low-cost, efficient catalyst

A team of researchers have engineered a cheap, abundant alternative to the expensive catalyst platinum and coupled it with a light-absorbing electrode to make hydrogen fuel from sunlight and water.

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ScienceDaily

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Pope removes bishop who expressed openness to ordaining women

Pope Benedict XVI has removed Australian Bishop William M. Morris from office five years after he wrote a pastoral letter indicating he would be open to ordaining women and married men.

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National Catholic Reporter

Muslims in Iowa glad Islam is no longer held hostage

A single thought went through the minds of many Iowa Muslims as they learned that U.S. forces had killed a man they say represented a perversion of their religion: We can finally take our religion back.

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Des Moines Register

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Lesson in levee battle is that Mother Nature always wins

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Cartoon (Ed Stein):

Directions

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Christian Science Monitor

Column (William J. Dobson):

A victory for Democratic foreign policy

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The New Republic

Blog (Christie Wilcox):

How do you ID a dead Osama bin Laden?

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(Scientific American)

Guest Blog

Blog (Mel Schwartz, L.C.S.W.):

The problem with seeking perfection

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(Psychology Today)

A Shift of Mind

Column (Larbi Sadiqi):

The mythos of Obama and Osama: 2 names forever coupled

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Al Jazeera

Bin Laden’s day of reckoning

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Miami Herald

Cartoon (Chan Lowe):

Can we go home now?

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USA TODAY

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GOOD NEWS

Molly Bloom’s wheelchair basketball team takes 1st place

Five years after the accident that took her left leg and part of her hip, Molly Bloom is thriving as a wheelchair athlete.

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Denver Post

New development aims to make Detroit a popular port of call

The project mirrors efforts of other Great Lakes port cities looking to maximize their waterfronts, including Cleveland — but critics doubt that Detroit has the demand to match the cost.

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Detroit Free Press

Genetic risk for depression identified

A new study reveals a novel gene associated with major depression. The find may guide future therapeutic strategies for this debilitating mood disorder.

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ScienceDaily

WORLD

Red Cross calls for access to casualties in Deraa, Syria

The International Committee of the Red Cross has urged Syria to lift restrictions on access to casualties in the besieged city of Deraa.

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Al Jazeera

Former Syrian vice president

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Spiegel International

Germany, Austria open doors to EU’s migrant workers

The doors to Germany and Austria have opened wider to foreign workers after the two European Union nations lifted restrictions on migrant laborers from Eastern Europe.

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Christian Science Monitor

EDUCATION

Schools in Des Moines, Iowa hope cameras will curb crimes

Firefighters have been called to Des Moines, Iowa schools 26 times in the past two years to put out small fires, a distraction district officials want to eliminate by using security cameras.

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Des Moines Register

Schools may track military students’ educational progress

The Education Department has proposed an idea to require schools, districts and states to report the achievement of military students.

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HEALTH

Holistic pet care: an Eastern-style approach to veterinary medicine

Even the vibe between veterinarian and pet is evaluated in veterinary offices offering traditional Chinese medicine, such as acupuncture and herbal remedies.

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Honolulu Star-Advertiser

Many young American adults deceiving themselves about health

Many young adults in the U.S. are deceiving themselves about health: nine out of 10 believe they follow a healthy lifestyle, but in reality consume too much fast food, alcohol and sugary drinks.

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Medical News Today

Survey shows tanning beds and outdoor sunbathing remain popular among teens

Large numbers of teenage girls are still using tanning beds or sunbathing outdoors despite repeated warnings from doctors that too much exposure to ultraviolet light can lead to skin cancer.

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WebMD

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Saint of death casts pall

Since the 1980s, the dark icon — a skeleton wrapped in robes, holding a scythe or globe — has spread to U.S. cities with large Latino populations.

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Star Tribune

How the group changes what we think

Researchers are investigating how human behavioral norms are established in groups and how they evolve over time.

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Wall Street Journal

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Special report: In China the big nuclear question is ‘how soon?’

While Germany and Italy have turned their backs on nuclear power, China is pressing ahead with an ambitious plan to raise capacity from 10.8 gigawatts to as much as 70 or 80 GW in 2020.

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Reuters

Misty aqua

Fog harvesting is not a new idea. FogQuest, a Canadian charity, has been installing devices using a plastic mesh to catch water droplets in developing countries for more than a decade.

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Science and Technology

Can you disappear on the Web?

In 2009 a site called the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine emerged, a possible saving grace to anyone who wished to wipe the Web clean of his or her digital identity.

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SPORTS

Mavs claw their way to a Game 1 victory in Los Angeles

The Dallas Mavericks actually went into Los Angeles and won a game that seemed to be slip-sliding away from them for most of the second half.

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Kansas City Star

Sports world embraces news of bin Laden’s death

Before the top of the fourth inning on Military Appreciation Night at Nationals Park in D.C., the announcer encouraged everyone to cheer for the active or retired members of the service.

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NBCSports

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Sports fans show patriotism

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Houston Chronicle

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Death penalty support is dropping

Statistics show that use of the death penalty was down across the country — even in Texas, which has carried out more than a third of all U.S. executions since the modern death penalty was instituted.

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TIME

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Sally Fitzgibbons, of Australia, competes in the Commonwealth Bank Beachley Classic surfing competition at Dee Why Beach in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Kirstin Scholtz / Association of Surfing Professionals / AP)

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