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Fifteen hundred sand bags each weighing 2,000 pounds line the low land area of the levee along the banks of the Mississippi River. The water from the river is within inches of the sand bags. Two miles down the levee had already broken at dawn in Lake Providence, La. (Photo by Kita Wright / AP)

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The new tech bubble

Some time after the dot-com boom turned into a spectacular bust in 2000, bumper stickers began appearing in Silicon Valley imploring: “Please God, just one more bubble.” That wish has now been granted.

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Economist

Entire new branch of life discovered

In further proof that we never know just how much we don’t know, a newly-published paper suggests that biologists in the U.K. discovered an entirely new and unique branch in the tree of life.

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Popular Science

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Oldest, oddest fungi finally photographed

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Wired

Mississippi flooding: echoes of 1927 disaster

Mississippi flooding concerns are now shifting to the Delta region south of Memphis, Tenn. Residents are using tractors and building makeshift levees to avoid a repeat of the 1927 floods.

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Christian Science Monitor

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‘Tiger Dams’ join sandbags in Mississippi fight

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MSNBC

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Mississippi flooding: the general store

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ABC News

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River flooding targets Mississippi Delta

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CNET News

Why gadget makers wield a ‘kill switch’

Most popular smartphone operating systems and other electronic gadgets include what security researchers refer to as a “kill switch.”

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CNN

What makes ads controversial?

Every year thousands of people complain about advertisements, taking offense over messages intended merely to sell products. But which themes are the most controversial and why?

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BBC

NATION

Aging population largest in Northeast

Driven by immigration and young people moving to the South and West and older Americans who stay put elsewhere, the age gap between regions in the U.S. has grown to its widest level in decades.

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Telegram & Gazette

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Census shows Calif. median age at record

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San Francisco Chronicle

Pace of foreclosures slows down

Nationwide, foreclosures in the first quarter took an average 400 days from default notice to the day the bank reclaimed the property, RealtyTrac reports.

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USA TODAY

Poll: Americans back tax increases in recent debt fix

More than half of Americans say higher taxes should be part of a fix to tame the $14.3 trillion U.S. debt, a Reuters poll released found, signaling a disconnect with Republicans who reject any tax increases.

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Reuters

POLITICS

Why Congress can’t fix gas prices

Gas prices keep rising. Both lawmakers and regular citizens are coming around to the reality that there’s really not too much that Congress can do about it.

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U.S. News & World Report

US to spend $30 million fighting Internet censorship in repressive regimes

The United States is playing a game of “cat and mouse” on the Web, funding new technology aimed at breaking Internet censorship in repressive regimes including China and Iran, officials have said.

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Guardian

Democrats reintroduce DREAM Act

Congressional Democrats reintroduced the DREAM Act, a bill giving citizenship to people who were brought into the country illegally as youngsters if they join the military or complete two years of college.

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Las Vegas Review Journal

DEATH OF BIN LADEN

Accounts piece together bin Laden’s fugitive trail

For a man on the run, Osama bin Laden seemed to do very little running. Instead, he chose to spend long stretches, possibly years, in one place and often in the company of his family.

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Forbes

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Osama’s son says US violated international law

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Osama bin Laden’s family tree

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BBC

Members of Congress see photos of bin Laden’s body

Republican Sen. James Inhofe told CNN’s Eliot Spitzer he saw about 15 photos of bin Laden’s body, most taken at the al-Qaida leader’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

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CNN

BUSINESS

Facebook’s stealth attack on Google

Social network Facebook admitted hiring a public relations firm to bash rival Google by planting negative stories in newspapers and across the blogosphere.

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San Jose Mercury News

Wall Street slips with commodities, inflation fears

U.S. stocks slid as falling commodity prices prompted an unwinding of bets on risky assets and raised questions about the strength of the economic recovery.

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MSN Money

Weekly US jobless claims drop 44,000

Applications in the U.S. for unemployment compensation fell by 44,000, partly reversing a large spike earlier in April, the Labor Department reported.

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MarketWatch

ENVIRONMENT

Severe tropical droughts expected as temperatures rise

A sediment core which has allowed researchers from the University of Pittsburgh to create a 2,300-year climate record reveals that as temperatures rise, so the summer monsoons will become drier.

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1st pipeline-fed hydrogen refueling station opens in the US

Toyota celebrated the opening of the first pipeline-fed refueling station in the U.S. Located in Torrance, Calif., it is the first hydrogen station to be directly connected to an active industrial hydrogen pipeline.

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Environmental News Network

SPORTS

‘Tractor’ Traylor, 34, found dead

Former NBA and University of Michigan player Robert “Tractor” Traylor, 34, has died. Police in San Juan, Puerto Rico, said in a statement that he was found dead on the bedroom floor of his oceanfront apartment.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Celtics wilt away in Heat

Borrowed time expired on the Boston Celtics when LeBron James got a shot off over Paul Pierce from 24 feet away.

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Heat close out Celtics

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Columns And Op-Ed

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Return of the real McCain

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Creators Syndicate

Blog (Robert Krulwich):

Strange things happen to guys who wear pants

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Krulwich Wonders

Column (Jodee Blanco):

How to spot a bullied child and what to do

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CNN

Column (Andrew J. Rotherham):

Why the Hispanic student crisis is going ignored

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TIME

Gay rights and the church’s evolving role

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Los Angeles Times

Obama puts immigration reform on the nation agenda

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San Francisco Chronicle

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Cartoon slideshow

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Column (Harold Myerson):

Is China’s bad news good for America?

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Star Tribune

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GOOD NEWS

Greg Mortenson affair: Good leaders must prove it every day

Leaders like Greg Mortenson are just people like ourselves, striving to do good. We all need to be vigilant to stay true to our good purpose.

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Christian Science Monitor

Experimental AIDS vaccine ‘works in monkeys,’ researchers say

An experimental vaccine has helped monkeys with a form of the AIDS virus control the infection for more than a year, suggesting it may lead to a vaccine for people, U.S. researchers have said.

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Al Jazeera

Dr. Love builds an anti-cancer army

Thanks to efforts of the best-known breast cancer advocate, there is an “Army of Women” volunteers who have signed up to participate in studies that might find the answer to breast cancer.

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WORLD

US attacks militants in Pakistan as pressure grows

A U.S. drone aircraft fired missiles at militants in Pakistan, killing eight of them, Pakistani officials said.

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Reuters

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Pakistani hill town a secret militant hub?

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MSNBC

Air France 447: Flight box recorders could unlock crash mystery

Authorities may be a step closer to unlocking the cause of a 2009 Air France crash after two flight box recorders recovered from deep beneath the sea arrived in France.

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ABC News

John Demjanjuk guilty of Nazi death camp murders

A German court has found John Demjanjuk guilty of helping to murder more than 28,000 Jews at a Nazi death camp in World War II.

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BBC

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Guilty Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk appears in court

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Telegraph.co.uk

EDUCATION

Preschool, kindergarten teachers adding iPads to classrooms

Dozens of preschool and kindergarten teachers are adding iPads to their classroom stocks of pencils and paints in an effort to hook young learners with the newest technology craze.

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Education for the emergency room

Despite widespread agreement that students in all medical fields should be trained in a set of common, basic skills to help them work together, they are still often educated in silos.

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Inside Higher Ed

HEALTH

Lungs may harbor stem cells

Scientists believe they’ve discovered stem cells in the lung that can make a wide variety of the organ’s tissues. This finding might open new doors for treating emphysema and other diseases.

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Star Tribune

How can you explain cancer clusters?

After 25 years, cancer clusters near nuclear power plants are still being investigated. It’s a battle with the forces of chance.

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BBC

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Mermaids surface as the next big thing

Mermaids are making a big splash in popular culture this summer. They can be found in books, movies, blogs and gatherings.

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USA TODAY

Bill Gallo lives on in magic he created

Near the end, when he was in the hospital and it seemed the only thing that kept him going was his love of the NY Daily News and the love of his family, Bill Gallo was still a newspaperman and an artist.

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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Mind reading: Technology turns thought into action

Scientists have shown that when connected to a computer running special software, electrocorticography can be used to control robotic arms and decode thoughts.

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NPR

Harbor seals use their whiskers to sense for fish

Tests with a trained seal have revealed that the animals can sense underwater objects, even with their hearing and sight restricted.

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BBC

Warning: ‘Mega-fire’ risk is global and growing

Global warming and decades of outmoded fire prevention strategies are merging to set the stage for massive “mega-fires” that scar communities’ homes and pocketbooks.

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Scientific American

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Demjanjuk convicted of helping Nazis to murder jews during the Holocaust

John Demjanjuk, a 91-year-old retired autoworker, was convicted and sentenced to five years in prison for aiding the Nazis in the murder of at least 28,000 Jews at the Sobibor death camp during World War II.

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Bloomberg

Immigration pits Mormons against an inevitable hierarchy

For decades, Mormon conservatives have believed their politics matched the positions of their church. But now comes an issue that puts the two seemingly at odds: immigration.

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Religion News Service

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Historians discover numbers and letters in Mona Lisa eyes

Mona Lisa was at the center of a new mystery after art detectives took a fresh look at the masterpiece — and noticed something in her eyes.

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Athletes compete in a steeplechase in Daegu, South Korea. (Photo by Lee Jin-man / AP)

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