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Facebook’s role in news is growing, Pew study finds

Google remains the top source of traffic to the top 25 general news websites, but Facebook is emerging as a “critical player” for how consumers find and share news stories.

San Francisco Chronicle

Facebook can serve as personality test

Discovery News

Bike medics: saving lives — and money

You might have seen them: a flash of fluorescence, a blur of spokes, the intent concentration as they speed past. Some paramedics are racing to give life saving support — not on four wheels, but two.

Medical News Today

UN seeks to pause fighting in Libya

U.N. aid chief Valerie Amos has called for a pause in hostilities in Libya to help ease the humanitarian crisis. She said that Misrata, the only rebel-held city in western Libya, was in a dire state.

BBC

Libyan migrants’ boat deaths to be investigated by Council of Europe

Guardian

Special section:

Anger in the Arab world

CBS News

Education programs assail survey to help prospective teachers

A national organization is conducting a review of more than 1,000 programs to help aspiring teachers choose from the best. But many say that the effort is misguided.

NPR

Microsoft nears $8.5B Skype buy

Microsoft is close to buying internet telephony network Skype in an $8.5 billion deal, a source said, as it seeks to regain ground on growing rivals such as Google.

Reuters

NATION

Americans blame oil companies, speculators for prices

The high price of gasoline is changing the driving and spending habits of Americans. The public blames speculators and oil companies for the price spike, according to a new survey.

CNNMoney

Blog:

Gas prices: 10 ways to save at the pump

(Christian Science Monitor)

Future Focus

Navy’s plan to allow same-sex marriage on bases draws opposition

A memo from the Navy officer in charge of chaplains says they “may” officiate both same-sex marriages or civil unions, depending both on local laws and also on their religious organization.

CNN

US national parks — today’s challenges

America’s national parks face a daunting array of challenges: from land development and climate change to budget shortfalls and the changing culture of America itself.

National Geographic

POLITICS

Ariz. going to US Supreme Court on immigration issue

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer announced she will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a ruling that put the most controversial parts of the state’s immigration enforcement law on hold.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Direction of the country

Polling Report

John Boehner to Congress: Cut ‘trillions’ as debt limit nears

Speaker John Boehner will call on Congress to offset a debt ceiling hike with spending cuts of a greater amount, an ambitious proposal that puts House Republicans on a collision course with Democrats.

Politico

Newt Gingrich says he will join White House race

Newt Gingrich, the House speaker who led a national GOP resurgence in the 1990s before facing ethics questions and resigning, is running for president.

Star Tribune

DEATH OF BIN LADEN

Bin Laden fallout: Do US trains need a ‘no-ride list’?

Osama bin Laden wanted al-Qaida to attack U.S. rail transportation on the 9/11 anniversary, according to intelligence taken from his compound. A “no-ride list” for Amtrak is being considered.

Christian Science Monitor

Special section:

The killing of Osama bin Laden

CBS News

Source: US needs permission to interview bin Laden’s wives

Pakistan will allow the U.S. to question or take into custody the apparent wives of Osama bin Laden only if their “country of origin has been asked for permission,” a source told CNN.

CNN

Pakistan starts bin Laden inquiry

BBC

bin Laden’s life

Al Jazeera

BUSINESS

General Motors to add 4,200 jobs in $2 billion investment

GM is planning to announce an investment totaling more than $2 billion and worth about 4,200 jobs in eight states, people familiar with the matter told the Free Press.

Detroit Free Press

Apple usurps Google as world’s most valuable brand

Apple has overtaken Google as the world’s most valuable brand, ending a four-year reign by the Internet search leader, according to a new study by global brands agency Millward Brown.

Reuters

Blog:

Apple blasts past Google to become world’s most valuable brand

(Forbes)

Shiny Objects

ENVIRONMENT

New Orleans gets flood help; Memphis breathes easier

The Mississippi River rose to levels not seen in Memphis since the 1930s, swamping homes in low-lying neighborhoods and forcing hundreds of people to evacuate.

MSNBC

How does the Army Corps handle flooding?

NPR

Brazil’s forest code debate may determine fate of the Amazon Rainforest

The federal code, which presently requires landowners in the Amazon to keep 80 percent of their land forest, is widely flouted, but has been used in recent years by the government to go after deforesters.

Environmental News Network

SPORTS

Cyclist Wouter Weylandt dies in fall at Giro d’Italia

Belgian cyclist Wouter Weylandt died after a high-speed downhill crash at the Giro d’Italia, the first rider to be killed in a major cycling race in 16 years.

Sports Illustrated

Minneapolis plan: new Vikings stadium, Target Center upgrade

Minneapolis officials announced a plan that not only would build a new stadium for the Minnesota Vikings for $895 million but also renovate the city-owned Target Center for $95 million.

Star Tribune

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Editorial:

Isn’t the goal less oil?

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Mary Sanchez):

With budget debate, maybe God should get a lobbyist

McClatchy Newspapers

Column (C. Michael Smith):

Would you risk your life to take business classes?

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Dena Ross):

Lessons from ‘The Wizard of Oz’

Beliefnet

Blog (Frank James):

Gingrich, no unifier even inside GOP, decides to run

(NPR)

It's All Politics

Editorial:

Disclose, disclose, disclose

Baltimore Sun

Cartoon (Randy Bish):

Debt ceiling

USA TODAY

Column (Mitch Albom):

Veteran died alone: Did you know him?

Detroit Free Press

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GOOD NEWS

Full face transplant patient makes 1st public appearance

The nation’s first full face transplant recipient said the first thing his young daughter told him after the operation was “Daddy, you’re so handsome.”

San Francisco Chronicle

New smartphone app helps find unexploded land mines

De-miners on the hunt for unexploded land mines could get some help from a simple smartphone app that works with their metal detectors.

Since she founded AdvocAid in 2006, Sabrina Mahtani has met scores of women who have fallen afoul of the law because of poverty, illiteracy or misfortune. AdvocAid was set up to help them.

Christian Science Monitor

WORLD

Pakistani media ‘name’ CIA station chief

Fresh tension has erupted between the CIA and Pakistani intelligence after several Pakistani media outlets published the alleged name of the CIA local station chief in Islamabad.

Guardian

15 minutes of fame for a tiny Pakistani village

Spiegel International

Syria arrests hundreds in crackdown

Syrian security forces arrested hundreds of protesters in house-to-house raids across the country, part of an escalating government crackdown aimed at stamping out the nationwide revolt.

CBS News

EDUCATION

Calif. teachers mobilize to pass taxes

Teachers in California are launching a weeklong effort across the state to pressure lawmakers to pass tax extensions and increases in order to prevent any further cuts to schools.

San Francisco Chronicle

Model of the moment

Indiana University decided that, instead of paying to expand online programs at its existing state institutions, Indiana would contract with a private university outside its borders.

Inside Higher Ed

HEALTH

Are stem cell injections a good alternative to knee replacement?

According to Christopher J. Centeno, M.D., only 8 percent of his knee patients opted for a total knee replacement two years after receiving a stem cell injection.

ABC News

ADHD kids may have had stressed moms while in womb

A recently announced research study found that it is more likely for children to have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder if their mothers were depressed or very stressed during their pregnancy.

iTWire

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

In her book, “The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory and Why Outsiders Thrive after High School,” author Alexandra Robbins demystifies the notion of “popularity.”

LiveScience

Boomers will redefine notions of age

Baby boomers’ numbers have allowed them to leave an imprint in each phase of life, which is a vast departure from their parents’ generation.

CNN

YouTube adds 3,000 movies for rent

YouTube will begin adding 3,000 films to the video site to rent to audiences in the U.S. Specific titles were not revealed.

Variety

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

‘Frozen diamond smoke’

A kind of “frozen smoke” made of diamonds could find use within all sorts of electronics and sensors in the human body and outer space.

LiveScience

Open source attacks data stacks

A loose affiliation of open source organizations is forming, which hopes to provide a serious challenge to huge data management systems sold by companies such as IBM, Oracle and SAS Institute.

iTWire

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Tension over ‘infallibility’

When Pope Benedict XVI used the word “infallible” in reference to the ban on women’s ordination, it marked the latest chapter of a long-simmering debate in the Catholic religion.

National Catholic Reporter

Review: bad apple proverbs

Proverbs are like other traditions: They owe their longevity to how easy it is to reinterpret what they mean. But the meaning of the “bad apple” proverb has changed over the years.

NPR

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