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Melissa Jenkins sits with her mother Diana Jenkins, right, on her childhood bed after moving back home to live with her parents to find work after graduating college. (AP Photo/Greg M. Cooper) (Photo by Greg M. Cooper / AP)

Survey: 3 in 10 young adults live with parents

A weak economy and high debt levels are prompting more young adults to return to the family nest, a new survey shows. Perhaps surprisingly, most are happy with their living arrangements.

Christian Science Monitor

The boomerang generation

Pew Social & Demographic Trends Project

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Millennials might not be so special after all

(USA TODAY)

Your Life

School violence: how big a problem?

Research shows school-age and college-age kids are not only safer but far more secure on school campuses than anywhere else.

NPR

US holds out hope for Afghan talks

The U.S. will continue to try to reconcile Afghanistan’s government and Taliban forces willing to renounce terrorism, despite the announcement that militants were suspending contacts.

CBS News

Afghan president, Taliban deal blow to US plans in Afghanistan

San Francisco Chronicle

Karzai to US troops: Leave our villages

YouTube

Tapping oil from reserve may be trickier than ever

As President Barack Obama moves closer to a second release of the U.S. emergency oil stockpile, experts say dramatic upheavals over the past year may now make such a move more complicated.

Reuters

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Should President Obama tap the strategic petroleum reserve?

(TIME)

Ecocentric

College spring break gets tamer as world watches online

Some of today’s spring breakers say they have been tamed, in part, not by parents or colleges, but by the fear of being in an unsanctioned photo or video going viral.

New York Times

NATION

Foreclosure influx causes backlog in some states

Real estate is about location, location, location and foreclosure is no different. The disparity in how states deal with foreclosures is growing.

NPR

Critics want housing finance chief out

CNNMoney

Strict voter ID law passes in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania has become the 16th state to adopt a strict voter photo ID law and the ninth state to do so in the past year. The law requires that every voter produce a government-issued photo ID at the polls.

CBS News

POLITICS

JOBS Act: Why are Democrats suddenly raising red flags?

The Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act had everything going for it. But after the Securities and Exchange Commission scrutinized the bill, its race to the president’s desk has been impeded.

Christian Science Monitor

NY Democrat Rep. Ackerman to retire

Long-time Rep. Gary Ackerman will retire. Ackerman had been publicly defiant about running again in his redrawn district, but he has now decided to end his House career instead.

Politico

BUSINESS

The American economy: unmired at last

Economic and financial indicators released in the past few weeks portray a surprisingly chipper U.S. economy — America’s recovery is neither robust nor dramatic, but it is real.

Economist

Gas prices may stall economic recovery

CNBC

How Wall Street women outearn men

Women who want to earn more on Wall Street than men have an option. They can set up a shoe-shine stand in Lower Manhattan, which earned $1.02 for every $1 their male counterparts made in 2010.

Bloomberg

EDUCATION

Should your child be spanked at school? In 19 states, it is legal

It is one of the most controversial methods of child discipline, but spanking in school — usually with a wooden or fiberglass paddle — is still allowed by law in 19 states.

ABC News

Calif. schools send out fewer teacher layoff notices than anticipated

For five years, Calif. teachers have dreaded the mid-March deadline for schools to issue layoff warnings. But in the Bay Area, fewer pink slips were sent out this year than anticipated.

San Jose Mercury News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Mexico prepares for pope, millions of visitors expected

It takes a lot to prepare for the coming of Pope Benedict XVI and the 3 million people he is expected to draw. One hundred fifty-thousand communion wafers? Check. Campsites for 350,000? Check.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Archbishop of Canterbury resigns, argument over gay bishops continues

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, has stepped down as the leader of the Anglican Communion amid a struggle with the Church’s liberal wing over the issue of homosexuality.

Telegraph.co.uk

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Outlaw mountain men, extremists roam across the Rockies

From wanted criminals to the more eccentric “Phantom Pooper” or “Dugout Dick,” outlaws and drifters roam the Rocky Mountains, folk heroes to the militia movement, but not for law enforcement.

Reuters

‘Ashley treatment’ on the rise amid concerns from disability rights groups

A controversial procedure to limit the growth of severely disabled children to keep them forever small has begun to spread among families in America, Europe and beyond.

Guardian

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GOOD NEWS

Fostering trust: A couple opens their home to 80 kids and counting

Julie and Jim of Kansas City, Kan., have been foster parents — or “resource parents” as they are sometimes called — to more than 80 children.

Kansas City Star

‘Cash mobs’ descend on small businesses, snap up merchandise

“Cash mobs,” modeled after public-spectacle “flash mobs,” are descending upon small businesses, snapping up merchandise and celebrating their pro-community mission.

USA TODAY

101-year-old Detroit woman who was evicted gets her house rehabbed

Less than a week after she learned that her home was going to be rehabbed, 101-year-old Texana Hollis was wheeled past new cabinets, fresh drywall and a group of people working to help her.

Detroit Free Press

WORLD

Syria: Pro-Assad rallies mark anniversary of revolt, violence continues

Thousands of Syrians rallied in Damascus in a display of loyalty to President Bashar Assad. Outside the Syrian capital, however, regime tanks and snipers besieged opposition areas.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Syrians remain resolute in fight for freedom

USA TODAY

US, Britain set to agree on emergency oil stocks release

Britain is poised to cooperate with the U.S. on a release of strategic oil stocks. It is expected within months, in an attempt to prevent fuel prices choking economic growth in a U.S. election year.

Reuters

Cameron and Obama planning to force down price of gas

Telegraph.co.uk

ENVIRONMENT

Bee deaths linked to corn insecticides

What was killing all those honeybees in recent years? New research shows a link between an increase in the death of bees and insecticides, specifically the chemicals used to coat corn seeds.

ABC News

What is the wind-cast?

If there were improvements in wind and sun forecasts, green energy could get a new lease on life.

Discovery News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

A portrait of the artist as a game studio

In Thatgamecompany’s groundbreaking and gorgeous games for the Playstation 3, we get the rare chance to watch artists as they work against a fixed technological backdrop.

The Atlantic

Petitions are going viral

Like a lot of other things, petitions are going viral. One website, Change.org, offers tools to let individuals start their own online campaigns, bringing instant awareness to a range of issues.

NPR

Digital spell-check may be killing words

Words are dying more often now than ever before and automatic spell-checkers may be partly responsible.

Discovery News

HEALTH

Low doses of hormone-like chemicals may have big effects

Scientists are seeking “fundamental changes” in testing and regulation of chemicals that mimic human hormones.

Scientific American

Dying for a donor

Thousands of Americans who need transplants die every year because they cannot find a suitable donor. They propose a controversial way to encourage more people to come forward: Pay them.

BBC

TREAT Act would speed up the approval process for drugs

The TREAT Act accelerates the review and approval process for medicines that treat an unmet medical need or significantly advance the standard of care for people suffering from deadly diseases.

McClatchy Newspapers

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Senator Hagen’s statement about the TREAT Act

NORD

SPORTS

Ex-NBA star returns to inner city, brings hoop dreams

Penny Hardaway made more than $120 million in a pro basketball career. Yet one of his crowning achievements came not as a player but as coach to the seventh- and eighth-graders of Lester Middle School.

CNN

Howard to stay in Orlando 1 more year

Howard signed papers agreeing to waive the early termination option in his contract, guaranteeing he will be with the Magic at the beginning of the 2012-13 season.

ESPN

Dwight Howard’s dunks through the years

Orlando Sentinel

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