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Navy Region Hawaii Honor Guard seaman Nick Marrero, of Greenville, Texas, holds an urn with the ashes of Pearl Harbor survivor Lee Soucy, who died last year at the age of 90, during Soucy’s internment ceremony in Honolulu. (Photo by Marco Garcia / AP)

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Kennedy Center honors finest culture

Actress Meryl Streep, singer Neil Diamond, Broadway star Barbara Cook, famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma and saxophonist Sonny Rollins received the nation’s top award for those influencing American culture through art.

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Plain Dealer

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Sonny Rollins: a colossus, in every sense

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Telegraph.co.uk

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2011 honorees in profile

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The Kennedy Center

Feds to allow use of Medicare data to rate local doctors

The U.S. will allow its extensive claims database to be used by employers, insurance companies and consumer groups for report cards on local doctors.

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St. Petersburg Times

Nation pauses to remember Pearl Harbor

People across the nation and survivors of the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor pause to remember the 2,400 people who lost their lives 70 years ago.

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CNN

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WWII veterans healthiest group of war vets

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Philadelphia Inquirer

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Pearl Harbor Day, we remember 70 years later

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TIME

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Survivors of Pearl Harbor, 70 years later

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ABC News

FDA, FTC crack down on illegal weight loss products

The Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission issued warning letters to seven companies, calling for them to stop marketing weight loss products containing the hormone HCG.

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ABC News

US pushes EU leaders to fix debt crisis

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is darting across Europe with a stark message: Eurozone leaders must act quickly and convincingly to defuse a debt crisis that threatens the global economy.

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CBS News

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Radical eurozone shakeup could see Brussels get austerity powers

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Guardian

NATION

‘Take Back the Capitol’ protests in DC

Protesters staged sit-ins at lawmakers’ offices and camped out on the National Mall as part of a new movement calling itself “Take Back the Capitol,” borrowing language from the Occupy movement.

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CNN

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Compare, contrast Occupy and Take Back the Capitol movements

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NPR

Rep. King’s 4th Muslim-American radicalization hearing to focus on military

Rep. Pete King, R-N.Y., hopes his panel’s hearing on the radicalization of Muslim-Americans within the U.S. military will reveal how the armed services can better protect itself against homegrown attacks.

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The Hill

POLITICS

US to use foreign aid to promote gay rights abroad, administration says

The Obama administration is announcing an effort to use U.S. foreign aid to promote rights for gays and lesbians abroad, including combating attempts by foreign governments to criminalize homosexuality.

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Kansas City Star

Obama channels Teddy Roosevelt as he addresses America’s ‘gaping inequality’

While traveling in Kansas, President Barack Obama evoked the aura of former president Theodore Roosevelt, who battled monopolistic industrial trusts and helped lay the groundwork for prosperity.

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Kan. laws highlight latest in abortion wars

There are few issues as polarizing for Americans as abortion and Kansas has long been at the center of the fight. New laws aimed at limiting abortions are adding even more fuel to the fire.

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CBS News

BUSINESS

India suspends plan to let in foreign retail

India suspended its plan to open its huge retail sector to foreign companies such as Wal-Mart in a reversal seen as a major capitulation to political opponents that further weakens the administration.

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Google News

Halliburton accused of destroying evidence by BP

The allegation by BP that Halliburton, a subcontractor on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, destroyed data about a cement slurry operation is a glimpse into a nasty battle set to go to trial in federal court.

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Christian Science Monitor

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BP’s 2009 spill may lead to criminal charges

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Anchorage Daily News

College towns work to draw those seeking active retirement

With many people seeking a retirement that is culturally active and intellectually stimulating, colleges and universities are working to bring retirees to their campuses and towns.

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San Francisco Examiner

Danger for whom?

A recent revision of a Justice Department regulation has many professionals worried they can no longer take certain steps to protect college students who may be a threat to themselves.

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Inside Higher Ed

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Georgia’s hottest export right now is millions of chopsticks!

Inspired by his Asian heritage, an American entrepreneur is turning Georgia into a growing, job-creating region that makes four million sets of chopsticks each week.

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CNNMoney

Online uproar as India seeks social media screening, control

India has urged social network companies to remove offensive material, unleashing a storm of criticism from Internet users.

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RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Teaching about HIV/AIDS in the church

Hostile reactions from churches asked to play a more active role in HIV/AIDS education highlight the challenges facing Baltimore as it enlists church outreach for its goal of curbing new infections.

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The altar boys’ secret: no longer alone

After decades of despair, former altar boy comes forward to share stories of alleged abuse with dead youth’s family. At last, there are answers — and a new cause to work for.

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Kansas City Star

Columns And Op-Ed

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Think of yourself in the third person

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Derek Boogaard: Another athlete claimed by brain damage

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Healthland

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Are psychopaths just ‘brain damaged’ people?

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Observations

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Afghanistan Field Guide: Don’t wear sunglasses and 8 other essential tips

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Christian Science Monitor

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New film reminds why Margaret Thatcher matters

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Yahoo! News

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Why has inequality been growing?

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Slate

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Now hiring

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MSNBC

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Why a smart tax on soda would work

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GOOD NEWS

State tax credits helping gain jobs in Ohio

A record 30 companies were considered for state tax credits for job creation in Ohio. Together with those seeking low-interest loans through the state, these projects could create up to 4,200 jobs.

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Columbus Dispatch

4-year-old boy saves diabetic grandfather’s life using iPhone

He doesn’t even know his own phone number yet, but a Texas 4-year-old saved his grandfather’s life by using an iPhone

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Calif. to take big step toward greenhouse gas limits

A little over a year from now, California will limit the greenhouse gas emissions from factories, power plants and, eventually, emissions from vehicles.

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NPR

WORLD

Shiite Muslims targeted in deadly shrine blasts in Afghanistan

Two bomb blasts, targeting Shiite Muslim shrines as hundreds gathered to mark the day of “Ashoura,” killed at least 60 people and injured scores more, say Afghan police and media reports.

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Al Jazeera

Kabul shrine attack: the start of sectarianism in Afghanistan?

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Guardian

Russia election protests: Putin plays down political losses

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has played down his party‘s losses at the parliamentary election as inevitable for a party in power.

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BBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Crocodiles monitored at nuclear plant

An unexpected but fruitful relationship has formed between two potent forces in the swamps of South Florida: the American crocodile and a nuclear power plant.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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Crocodiles thrive near nuclear plant

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Yahoo! News

Planet found orbiting sun-like star

The most Earth-like planet that could potentially sustain water is circling a star 600 light years away, scientists said.

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Reuters

HEALTH

Aunt Midge reveals the $14B hospice care market as growing industry

Hospice care has become a growth industry with $14 billion in revenues, 1,800 for-profit providers and a base of Medicare-covered patients that doubled to 1.1 million from 2000 to 2009.

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Bloomberg

‘Sonoma Cookbook’ not just a diet, but a way of life

On track to being a professor, the creator of the “Sonoma Diet” never planned to be a diet-guru. Students shunned her, fearing she’d take away sugar and fat. Now, she proves healthy eating isn’t dull.

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Reuters

Social networking for a cure

Does social media amplify our sense of responsibility to one another? Amit Gupta, a cancer patient and tech entrepreneur who founded the photo site Photojojo, tests the strength of the Web.

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BBC

ENVIRONMENT

Japan was hit by ‘double tsunami’

The tsunami that devastated the north-east coast of Japan in March was created by at least two wave fronts that merged to form a far more destructive “double tsunami,” U.S. scientists have said.

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Guardian

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Japan: landscape of loss

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USA TODAY

Undersea mountains, volcanos march into the abyss

Startling new images from the depths of the Pacific Ocean reveal one of Earth’s most violent processes: the destruction of massive underwater mountains.

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BBC

SPORTS

NBA teams face packed schedule from start to finish

To squeeze in 66 games in 124 days, the 2011-12 NBA schedule is packed from start to finish and filled with more quirks than usual.

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USA TODAY

UCF to be announced as new Big East member in 2013

The Big East will announce UCF has been added as a new member of the conference in all sports, according to reports by a variety of media outlets including CBS Sports and ESPN.

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Orlando Sentinel

5 finalists named for Heisman

The votes are in, and ESPN.com’s panel of experts has made its own selection for the most prestigious trophy in college football.

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ESPN

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Coffee may ward off Alzheimer’s

It’s likely that complex factors influence the development of Alzheimer’s, a disease degrading a person’s memory, personality and language skills. But scientists have found clues to halt its development.

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Visitors and legislators attend the annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Pennsylvania capitol rotunda in Harrisburg, Pa. (Photo by Bradley C. Bower / AP)

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