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Puerto Rico‘s Governor Luis Fortuno shows his ballot to the press after marking it with an ’x’ under the photo of candidate Mitt Romney during the Republican presidential primary election at San Jose Academy in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. (Photo by Christopher Gregory / AP)

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Bob Dylan’s debut album: 50 years later

The album — entitled “Bob Dylan” — was released half a century ago by a 20-year-old from Minnesota who had arrived in Manhattan the previous year by hitching a ride on a freight train.

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Guardian

For a century, the Underground Railroad ran south

While most Americans are familiar with the Underground Railroad that helped Southern slaves escape north before the Civil War, the path ran for more than a century in the opposite direction.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Romney sweeps Puerto Rico primary contest

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney won big in Puerto Rico’s primary, bolstering his position in the party as front-runner for the nomination.

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Reuters

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Romney, Santorum and Obama trade digs

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Detroit Free Press

Romney wins Puerto Rico GOP primary

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(The Hill)

Ballot Box

Untested rape kits deny many justice

According to some estimates, between 180,000 and 400,000 rape kits remain untested nationwide, despite the presence of DNA technology that can swiftly link rapists to crimes.

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CBS News

As natural gas production grows, questions arise about methane leaks

As natural gas production in the U.S. reaches an all-time high, a major unanswered question looms: What does growing hydraulic fracturing mean for climate change?

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McClatchy Newspapers

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Explain it to me: fracking

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CNN

NATION

Occupy marks 6-month anniversary

Police arrested dozens of Occupy Wall Street protesters during a protest marking the movement‘s 6-month anniversary at its birthplace in New York’s Zuccotti Park.

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Guardian

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Police sweep ends Occupy anniversary protest

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CBS News

Women slip behind as economy picks up

Women held onto their jobs so much better than men during the recession that some even called it a “man-cession.” But now, even though job creation is up, job growth for women lags behind men.

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Star Tribune

How do you know if someone’s too stoned to drive?

For years, states that legalized medical marijuana have grappled with determining impairment levels. As voters decide if the drug should be legalized for recreational use, there is a new urgency to the issue.

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POLITICS

Obama raises $5 million in 1 day

President Barack Obama, juggling dual roles as fundraiser extraordinaire and commander-in-chief, piled up a cool $5 million, all of it raised in a lucrative single-day campaign blitz.

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Republican candidates watch Puerto Rico, look down the road

Puerto Ricans will have their say in the Republican presidential nominating contests, while the top two candidates are already down the road, campaigning for upcoming contests.

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CNN

BUSINESS

Building a better apocalypse

On Chris Hackett’s personal periodic table, the most interesting item is an element he calls obtainium, which might include a teapot-turned-propane burner or a beer bottle-turned-razor.

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Giving back: how every startup company can be philanthropic

While the size and success of huge technology companies are the exception, giving back through social philanthropy not only benefits the recipients but has innumerable benefits to the giver.

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Forbes

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Lack of compassion can make people feel less moral, study shows

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Huffington Post

AT&T drops plans to appeal, pays throttled data plan user

AT&T has dropped its plans to appeal a small-claims-court ruling that the company unfairly limits subscribers of its “unlimited” data plans after they use up a particular amount of monthly bandwidth.

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PC Magazine

EDUCATION

New Orleans schools still struggling

After Hurricane Katrina, McDonogh No. 11, one of more than 30 New Orleans schools funded by philanthropist John McDonogh, struggled in a tangle of local, state and federal authorities’ resources.

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The Atlantic

Students benefiting from new measures

Researchers say it has never been easier to match students with teachers who can serve them best, thanks to the “value-added” measurement that tracks students’ progress over time.

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Columbus Dispatch

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Taking the measure of mind

At the newly created Center for Investigating Healthy Minds, neuroscientist Richie Davidson and his team try to see how far our minds can go and how many ways meditation can help us.

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Pope will visit violence-wracked Mexico for public Mass

Pope Benedict XVI descends into Mexico’s heartland before heading to Cuba for nearly a week of religious celebration and messaging that for some will also be fraught with political significance.

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Houston Chronicle

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

We bought a zoo — and then they made a movie about it

In 2006, after a career in journalism, Benjamin Mee, with his wife, two young children and mother, bought a large house in Devon and the zoo that came with it.

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The Independent

Facebook’s ‘dark side’: Study finds link to socially aggressive narcissism

Researchers have established a direct link between the number of friends you have on Facebook and the degree to which you are a “socially disruptive” narcissist.

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Guardian

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Blog (Michael Michalko):

How Leonardo da Vinci got his ideas

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Creative Thinkering

Memo to Congress: Get off the soapbox and renew domestic violence law

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San Jose Mercury News

Column (Phillip Weiss):

The compassion of the Clementi family

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Salon

Column (Chuck Dietrich):

How every startup can be philanthropic

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Forbes

Column (JL Granatstein):

Help is not coming for Syrian opposition

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Column (Ford Vox):

The lessons that we can learn from Jason Russell

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The Atlantic

Column (Rowan Pelling):

Do not let the screens turn my children into zombies

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Telegraph.co.uk

Column (Vincent Carroll):

Warren Hern and the ‘malignancy’ of mankind

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Denver Post

Cartoon (Rick McKee):

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

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NPR

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GOOD NEWS

After Spain’s construction bust, gardens now bloom

Spain is littered with vacant lots and half-built apartments where developers ran out of money. But in Madrid, neighbors are putting an abandoned tract of urban space to creative use.

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NPR

Census documenting Great Depression to be released

Details of 132 million people who lived through the 1930s will be disclosed when the U.S. government releases the 1940 census to the public for the first time. The census was kept confidential for 72 years.

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ABC News

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Finding your roots — video preview

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PBS

Boy honored for donation to military

Bailey Lewis enjoyed a unique birthday celebration. Instead of buying the video game he was saving for, Bailey opted to donate the more than $100 he had earned cleaning dog cages to military personnel.

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Columbia News Times

WORLD

German lawmakers elect Joachim Gauck as new president

A far-reaching majority of lawmakers elected former East German pro-democracy activist Joachim Gauck as Germany’s new president.

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USA TODAY

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Profile: Germany’s Joachim Gauck

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BBC

Women protest sex trade in Ukraine

A group of bare-breasted young women scaled the front of the General Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine, protesting the handling of the case of a young woman who was raped and set on fire.

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ABC News

Questions arise after Afghan shootings

Afghans continued to grieve and continued to fume one week after a U.S. soldier allegedly went house to house, killing over a dozen villagers.

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CNN

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Afghan killing suspect dogged by money, job

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Afghanistan: live

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Al Jazeera

ENVIRONMENT

Beach rush in Africa

Surfers hate crowds and need more waves. Forecast models show that much of Africa’s coastline abounds with the right kinds of waves, and at many of those beaches, there are no surfers at all.

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Economist

Seabird species face extinction as invaders storm empire’s last outcrops

Many of the fascinating and charismatic species of birds on the remote shores of the United Kingdom’s overseas territories are now close to extinction.

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Guardian

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

How video games help war vets

In Iraq with the National Guard, Bryan Kidd suffered a concussion so severe he still has trouble recognizing people. Now, he is working with a therapist on cognitive problems, using a video game to do it.

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Christian Science Monitor

Robots rumble on-court as school teams compete in electronics championship

March Madness of a different form hit Detroit as teams from 40 Michigan high schools hooped it up in a basketball tournament played not by the youngsters themselves, but by the robots they built.

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Detroit Free Press

HEALTH

Why do we stammer?

Experts assert that stuttering is caused by “a complex mix of physiological and environmental factors.” Chronic sufferers are now fighting back.

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Las Vegas Review Journal

Justices control health law’s fate

Here is a thought that cannot comfort President Barack Obama: The fate of the health care overhaul he worked so hard on now rest with four Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices.

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ABC News

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Court weighs making health coverage universal

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Detroit Free Press

SPORTS

Federer tops Isner to win Indian Wells

Roger Federer defeated John Isner 7-6 (7), 6-3 to win his record fourth BNP Paribas Open title, avenging a loss to the American who beat him in Davis Cup play.

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CBSSports

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Federer happy with win

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ESPN

Lehigh, Norfolk State try to win as 15th seeds in NCAA games

Lehigh University and Norfolk State University stunned their higher-ranked opponents, and now they get to advance to the regional semifinals of the men’s NCAA tournament.

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Bloomberg

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NCAA tournament scoreboard

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Sports Illustrated

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Could seawater be the solution to freshwater crisis?

With 1.8 billion people predicted to live in areas of extreme water scarcity by 2025, desalination — the removal of salt from water — is increasingly being proposed as a solution.

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National Geographic

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East Timorese men stand by windows as they pray during a Mass at a cathedral in Dili, East Timor. (Photo by Firdia Lisnawati / AP)

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