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Representatives of French Jewish and Muslim communities share a microphone in Paris after a shooting at a Jewish school in France which left four dead.. French police are negotiating with a man who is suspected of the killings. (Photo by Francois Mori / AP)

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Leftovers: tasty or trash?

The food we throw away is getting more attention, as prices continue to rise. Still, it’s a challenge for home cooks to resist the temptation to eat out or order in.

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Wall Street Journal

Do background checks for job candidates go too far?

With more than four unemployed workers per opening, the Great Recession has created a buyer’s market for labor. Employers now rely on background reports to help thin the applicant pool.

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McClatchy Newspapers

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Job seekers being asked for Facebook and social network passwords

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Raid on Toulouse shooting suspect

Police hunting a gunman suspected of killing seven people in France are laying siege to a flat in Toulouse. The suspect has said he belongs to al-Qaeda and acted to “avenge Palestinian children.”

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BBC

Toulouse siege: live

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Telegraph.co.uk

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Shooting suspect besieged by police in Toulouse

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The Independent

Mitt Romney wins Illinois primary

The Republican presidential frontrunner, Mitt Romney, won an overwhelming victory over his main rival, Rick Santorum, in their Illinois showdown.

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Guardian

Illinois GOP primary: a look at the county-by-county vote

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NPR

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Washington Post

America’s most trustworthy companies

Corporate scandals, bailouts and bankruptcies have damaged investors’ trust in the country’s largest public companies. However, many corporations are models of openness and integrity.

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Forbes

NATION

Tax return scammers steal billions

Tax return fraud is a growing problem, with more than two million bogus returns filed last year with the Internal Revenue Service — returns filed by thieves who had stolen people’s identities.

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CBS News

Phone logs reveal last moments before shooting of Fla. teen

A teenager on the phone with an unarmed teen, Trayvon Martin, who was shot and killed by a neighborhood watch captain, asked the boy to run and heard the confrontation, telephone logs reveal.

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Toronto Star

US ‘war game’ sees perils of Israeli strike against Iran

A classified war simulation held to assess the repercussions of an Israeli attack on Iran forecasts that the strike would lead to a wider regional war, which could draw in the United States.

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Msnbc.com

POLITICS

Drug testing: Florida aims to be 1st to test public workers

A new Florida drug-testing law allows agency heads to randomly test public workers for illegal drugs, prescription drugs and alcohol.

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Christian Science Monitor

Paul Ryan introduces Republican budget’s sweeping Medicare reform

Congressional Republicans have proposed a budget of sweeping spending cuts, tax reductions and reform to health care for the elderly that may prove politically toxic for their party in an election year.

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Guardian

BUSINESS

Apple sells 3 million new iPads in 3 days

Apple said it sold three million new iPad tablet computers over the weekend, setting a company record. By comparison, it took 28 days for the first iPad in 2010 to reach one million units sold.

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USA TODAY

Student loan interest rates to double

On July 1, college students will see their interest rates on federally subsidized student loans double, from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent.

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TIME

ENVIRONMENT

A greener, cleaner office building

An office building that lasts 250 years with no monthly electricity or water bills? It is possible, say the builders of what they hope will be the biggest self-sustaining office tower in the nation.

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Msnbc.com

Spring into summer: Unseasonable heat helps pave the way for violent weather

Spring is just beginning, but in many parts of the country, it already feels like summer. Warm temperatures and high humidity are putting much of the country in the path of violent storms.

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Christian Science Monitor

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The science of spring equinox

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LiveScience

The fight to save the tiger

The great cat is disappearing because of habitat loss and illegal hunting, but a scientist in India may have discovered a way to avert extinction.

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Smithsonian Magazine

EDUCATION

CSU to close door on spring enrollment

California State University will accept no new admissions for the spring semester of 2013 — with a few exceptions — as part of a drastic, cost-cutting strategy to reduce enrollment by about 16,000 students.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Hostile takeover: Parents seek control of failing school in education reform move

Desert Trails Elementary School has been failing kids for years. More than half the students can’t pass state math or reading tests. Now, the school board will discuss a radical fix: a parent takeover of the school.

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Reuters

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Catholics eye Cleveland closures for national precedent

Catholics fighting church closings keep their eyes on the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland, where Bishop Lennon was overruled by the Vatican for not following church law and procedures on closing churches.

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USA TODAY

In the footsteps of the apostles

They were unlikely leaders. As the Bible tells it, most knew more about mending nets than winning converts when Jesus said he would make them “fishers of men.” Yet the apostles are still drawing people in.

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National Geographic

Columns And Op-Ed

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90 degrees in winter: This is what climate change looks like

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The Nation

China’s high-handed behavior on rare-earth exports

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Kansas City Star

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John Demjanjuk’s judgment

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Plain Dealer

More thoughtful conversation is needed in public debate

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Casper Star Tribune

Column (Robert Grenier):

Mitt Romney and the lure of neo-imperialism

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Al Jazeera

Column (Tony Bradley):

Why the demise of print media is bad for humanity

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PC World

Column (Mary Sanchez):

Thinking over the insane war on women

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McClatchy Newspapers

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GOOD NEWS

Peace-minded Israeli reaches out to everyday Iranians via Facebook

Israeli graphic designer Ronny Edry wanted to speak directly to Iranians. On Facebook, he posted messages of peace, hoping Iranians would see them.

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CNN

A London park devoted to those most worth remembering

Rare are commemorations of everyday heroes — the ordinary men and women who one day do something extraordinary. But there is a handful of neglected monuments that honor these heroes.

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Smithsonian Magazine

How hospital gardens help patients heal

Dismissed as peripheral to medical treatment for much of the 20th century, gardens are back in style, now featured in the design of most new hospitals.

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Scientific American

WORLD

Mexico hit by 7.4-magnitude earthquake near Acapulco

The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake had a magnitude of 7.4 and put the epicentre at 15 miles east of Ometepec, in the state of Guerrero.

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BBC

Bombings in Iraq on 9-year anniversary of US invasion

Iraq was shaken by more than two dozen explosions across the country, which killed at least 49 and wounded 200 on the ninth anniversary of the U.S. invasion.

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Slate

HEALTH

Inside America’s drug shortage

How could hundreds, perhaps thousands of cancer patients suddenly find themselves without the drug treatments that could save their lives? The shortfalls are also not limited to cancer drugs.

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TIME

Drug-resistant ‘white plague’ lurks among rich and poor

Tuberculosis is often seen as a disease of bygone eras — evoking impoverished 18th or 19th century women and children dying slowly. But rising rates of drug-resistant TB are once again making history.

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Reuters

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Tuberculosis in the United States

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CDC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

To fix a heart, doctors train girl’s body to grow new part

Four-year-old Angela Irizarry was born with a single pumping chamber in her heart. To fix the problem, she is growing a new blood vessel in her body in a newly-pioneered experimental treatment.

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Wall Street Journal

Albert Einstein’s archives to go online

Albert Einstein’s complete archives — from personal correspondence with half a dozen lovers to notebooks scribbled with his groundbreaking research — are going online for the first time.

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Guardian

Einstein’s writings made available online

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Satellites identify small hills as ancient human settlements

Satellites are typically thought of as spying devices, but two scientists wish to change this worldview after mapping more than 14,000 ancient human settlements in northeastern Syria.

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Christian Science Monitor

SPORTS

Manning agrees to 5-year, $96M contract with Broncos

Peyton Manning will sign a contract that will mark a new era for both himself and the Broncos. The contract is for five years and $96 million, with the first year payout of $18 million fully guaranteed.

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Denver Post

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AFC free agent moves

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Sports Illustrated

Boos mar Chris Mullin jersey retirement

Chris Mullin didn‘t think he’d see his jersey hanging from the rafters in Oakland. But Mullin has found a way to overcome a lot in his life, including a contentious halftime ceremony.

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ESPN

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

How the world’s 1st-ever rock concert ended in chaos

The world’s first rock concert was staged in Cleveland 60 years ago by two men whose passion for music bridged the racial divide in a segregated America.

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BBC

‘John Carter’ set to lose Disney $200M

Muddled marketing and lukewarm reviews have been blamed for the bad performance of the space-themed epic, which has recently with just $30 million in the U.S.

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Guardian

The canine insiders on Capitol Hill

Congress really may be going to the dogs. Every day, dozens of dogs, the canine companions of members of Congress, are brought to the U.S. Capitol building to spend days alongside their masters.

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ABC News

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Presidential pets

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Schools of fish help improve wind farms

Engineers have created a new wind farm design that mimics a school of fish, which could dramatically improve the farm’s power output.

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BBC

Photo of the Day

On the first day of spring, a bumblebee collects pollen from a blooming crocus in the sun at a traffic island in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. (Photo by Martin Meissner / AP)

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