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Firefighers stand by while a search team looks through a devastated building in Joplin, Mo. An EF-5 tornado tore through much of the city, damaging a hospital and hundreds of homes and businesses and killing at least 139 people. (Photo by Charlie Riedel / AP)

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For Ground Zero workers, there is another 9/11 anniversary

The men and women who build New York City‘s skyscrapers aren’t a soft bunch, but even the toughest were unprepared for the job that took over their lives in September of 2001.

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NPR

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Making Memorial Day more meaningful

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MSNBC

Lockheed Martin hit by cyber incident

Lockheed Martin Corp, the world‘s biggest aerospace company and the Pentagon’s No. 1 supplier by sales, has been hit by an unspecified cyber incident.

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Reuters

Obama going to Mo. to offer help in healing

President Barack Obama is pivoting from diplomacy on the world stage to the intimate and delicate domestic task of acting as healer-in-chief to a devastated community.

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ABC News

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Joplin, Mo., tornado death toll at 139

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San Francisco Chronicle

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Aerial view of tornado damage in Joplin

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Detroit Free Press

Marilyn Monroe photos found at garage sale still a mystery

Photographer Anton Fury’s hobby of searching weekend garage sales for collectible toys led him to dozens of apparently unpublished photos of a young Marilyn Monroe.

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CNN

300 Gazans enter Egypt in first hour of Rafah opening

Egypt opened the Rafah crossing on the Sinai-Gaza border after four years, allowing 300 Palestinians to pass through in the first hour. Hamas and Fatah welcomed the reopening.

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NATION

Biden hails resurgent US auto industry

Vice President Joe Biden credited the Obama administration‘s intervention for the American auto industry’s recovery from “the brink of extinction” and pointed to Chrysler’s early repayment of the federal loan that saved it from disaster.

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CBS News

Delta flight catches fire in Atlanta

Passengers have been evacuated from a Delta Air Lines flight after the plane’s brakes overheated while landing at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.

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MSNBC

POLITICS

Republican presidential contest suddenly heats up

The still unsettled race for the Republican nomination to challenge President Barack Obama in 2012 is getting more interesting.

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Washington Examiner

Michele Bachmann says she’s had a ’calling’

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The Note

Few would place bets on whether Palin is running for president

Many people on both sides of the political divide remain skeptical that she will run, or that she has a viable path to the Republican presidential nomination if she does so.

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The Hill

BUSINESS

Gas tanks are draining family budgets

High prices at the pump are putting a squeeze on the family budget: for every $10 the typical household earns, almost a full dollar now goes toward gas.

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ABC News

Pools of nuclear waste becoming a recipe for disaster

When it planned the Callaway nuclear plant in the mid-1970s, Union Electric Co. had a straightforward, if wishful, strategy for managing the still-radioactive used fuel.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

SPORTS

Morality tale: Mavericks’ tradition vs. Heat’s power grab

Those prone to hyperbole will cast the NBA Finals as a battle for basketball’s soul. More is at stake than a determination of the league’s best team. The winner of this series hands down a moral judgment.

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Kansas City Star

Indianapolis 500: Classic race is picking up speed on 100th anniversary

When Alex Tagliani makes the first turn of the Indianapolis 500, he‘ll be tugging along a century’s worth of triumphs, thrills and tragedy.

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San Jose Mercury News

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Tagliani, Patrick talk Indy 500

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Mets-David Einhorn deal outlined

David Einhorn, who has been selected to join the New York Mets ownership group as a minority partner, has a path to majority ownership, a source familiar with the negotiations said.

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ESPN

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

9 things that make allergies worse

If you’re a seasonal allergy sufferer, you probably already have a few tricks to avoid triggers, but you may not know about these less obvious factors that can make symptoms worse.

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ABC News

Warriors who became walking libraries

Roland Marbaugh’s son typed his war stories up on an electric typewriter in the 1980s but, unpublished, Marbaugh’s stories remained largely in his mind, until now.

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CNN

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Memorial Day quotes

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Beliefnet

‘Grease’ actor Jeff Conaway has died

Actor Jeff Conaway, who was in the TV series “Taxi” and the movie “Grease,” has died, his manager said.

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CNN

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Dr. Drew on Jeff Conaway’s death

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CNN

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Do prayers help sports players?

Atheists regard the idea that religion can make a difference to outcomes in sport as fanciful. But it is possible to put aside the issue of God’s existance and just examine the impact of faith on performance.

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BBC

Cartoonist likes to explore the funny side of Christianity

Is faith funny? Cuyler Black thinks it is. “I believe that God is a God of joy,” says Black, who draws cartoons about the funny side of Christianity.

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Winnipeg Free Press

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Robert Reich):

Debt limit at heart of GOP’s impending civil war

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San Francisco Chronicle

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The case against Mladic: chocolates and mass graves

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NPR

Blog (Alice Vincent):

Lego fan creates 250,000-brick ‘Garrison of Moriah’

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Wired

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The Syrian problem

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Ryan Medicare plan

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McClatchy Newspapers

Column (Mark LeVine and Mathias Mossberg):

Parallel states: A new vision for peace

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Al Jazeera

Rise of ‘missing girls’ in India and China

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Christian Science Monitor

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Movies should take chances on unknown actors

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Slate

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GOOD NEWS

How to help a stray dog

I don’t remember where I was going when that stray dog weaved across a busy street near my home. But I do remember turning the car around to rescue the white pup with large tan spots.

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CNN

Run honors fallen hero, raises funds for the Special Olympics

Each year, Hawaii’s Law Enforcement Officers and Military Personnel run to raise money for the Special Olympics, in honor of Troy Barboza, a Honolulu Police officer who was murdered 24 years ago.

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Hawaii News Now

Examiner photo reunites heart-attack victim with woman who saved his life

Ken Byk, 53, who had a heart attack during a race last year found a photo of Ruth Rodgers, whose powerful compressions of Byk’s chest broke three of his ribs, but also saved his life.

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San Francisco Examiner

WORLD

Egypt reopens border with Gaza

In a highly symbolic break with previous policy, Egypt reopened its border crossing into Gaza, opening the door for Palestinians to the outside world and raising fears of increased militant attacks.

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CNN

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Egypt opens Rafah border with Gaza

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Al Jazeera

Suicide bomber strikes at top NATO, Afghan leaders

A Taliban suicide bomber wearing a police uniform blew himself up inside a heavily guarded compound as top Afghan and international officials left a meeting, killing two senior Afghan police commanders.

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Forbes

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Suicide bomber strikes in Afghanistan

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ABC News

Poland welcomes Obama moves on security, visas

Polish leaders praised President Barack Obama for pushing ahead on issues of key importance to Warsaw: establishing a U.S. military presence in Poland and making it easier for Poles to visit the U.S.

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Obama: Poland a model for democracy

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HEALTH

Recall of drain covers may force closure of many public pools

The Consumer Product Safety Commission recalled nearly one million drain covers, installed within the last two-and-a-half years because the covers could trap swimmers by pulling them toward the drain.

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CBS News

CMS eases e-prescribing rule

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced it would be more flexible in allowing doctors to phase in electronic prescribing technology.

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Medical News Today

ENVIRONMENT

Pune to celebrate world environment day

Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) is organizing a host of activities like exhibition, a seminar on trees and a book launch on the occasion of World Environment Day.

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Atlantic bluefin tuna put on US environmental watchlist

The U.S. government put the Atlantic bluefin tuna on an environmental watchlist as a “species of concern” and will keep checking for any impact on these fish from the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Environmental News Network

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Significant role played by oceans in ancient global cooling

New research is providing some of the strongest evidence to date that ocean currents played a key role in the major shift in the global climate that began approximately 38 million years ago.

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ScienceDaily

Fish-feeding robots the envy of many research labs

The laboratory sits in a basement at Washington University. And it’s the envy of most researchers: robots to feed its 500,000 residents.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Self-serving stewardship: How manufacturers can help the planet

Pier Luigi Loro Piana partnered with the government of Peru to develop a new way to harvest the vicuña’s hair. Instead of the animal being killed for its fleece, it would be sheared like a sheep.

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TIME

EDUCATION

For-profit colleges see gains

Undergraduate enrollments increased by more than a third, to 17.6 million, in the first decade of the 21st century, with the most dramatic growth occurring at for-profit colleges, a federal report shows.

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USA TODAY

IPad not viable as textbook replacement

Researchers concluded iPads increased student engagement in the classroom, but they presented too many technical and logistical challenges to completely replace printed textbooks.

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Virginian-Pilot

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

The bigger they come, the harder the stuntmen fall

Hollywood is obsessed with explosive — and expensive — stunts. Those who perform them are paying the price.

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The Independent

Photo of the Day

A former Russian border guard waves a Russian Border guard flag as he bathes in a fountain in Moscow’s Gorky Park to celebrate Border Guards Day. (Photo by Mikhail Metzel / AP)

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