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This file image provided by NASA shows geyser-like eruptions of ice particles and water vapor shooting out from the south pole of Saturn‘s moon, Enceladus. (Photo by NASA / AP)

Hello to an extraterrestrial ocean, and maybe life

The Cassini spacecraft’s discovery of the Enceladen Ocean, located on one of Saturn’s 66 known moons, is new and possibly game-changing.

TIME

Saturn‘s gravity warps icy moon’s erupting jets

SPACE.com

Average cost of US wedding hits $27,021

New York, where the average cost of a wedding is $65,824, is the most expensive city in the U.S. to get married. Elsewhere, the average cost is $27,000, which does not include the cost of the honeymoon.

Reuters

Obama: ‘If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon’

President Obama waded into the growing controversy of the killing of a black teenager in Florida, saying the nation should do some “soul-searching to figure out how something like this happens.”

CNN

Fla. governor appoints special prosecutor to investigate Trayvon Martin shooting

CBS News

Thousands attend rally for Trayvon Martin

YouTube

Kim nominated for World Bank post

President Barack Obama nominated Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim to head the World Bank, a surprise pick for the international financial institution’s top job.

CBS News

Watch Jim Yong Kim’s nomination

BBC

Can ‘Hunger Games’ fandom become a force for good?

The growing legions of fans of the dystopian world depicted by author Suzanne Collins are being urged to get involved with social-justice issues, such as fighting hunger.

Christian Science Monitor

Thousands throng to ‘Hunger Games’ premiere

USA TODAY

NATION

Not Chinese enough in China? Chinese-Americans caught between 2 worlds

In China, where many American-born Chinese have gravitated over the past few years, race and nationality intersect in interesting — sometimes confusing — ways.

Msnbc.com

Special section:

A decade of change in China

Guardian

US sales of new homes climbing

Purchases of new homes in the U.S. probably rose in February to the highest level in more than a year, economists said. Affordability is increasing due to a range of factors.

Bloomberg

Tips for buying a house

CNNMoney

POLITICS

Republican National Committee will not wait for presidential nominee

Even with the GOP presidential primary still very much in progress, the Republican National Committee is moving full speed ahead with its ground game in key battleground states.

Politico

Obama administration expands ability to hold citizens’ data

The U.S. intelligence community will now be able to store information about Americans with no ties to terrorism for up to five years under new Obama administration guidelines.

AOL News

Radio campaign begins next step against Rush Limbaugh

Rush Limbaugh‘s opponents are starting a radio campaign against him, seizing upon the radio star’s verbal attack of a law student to make a long-term effort aimed at weakening his business.

TIME

Listen to radio ads against Limbaugh

Huffington Post

BUSINESS

Contagion risk in Europe is back, and Spain is top worry

Among the eurozone periphery countries, Spain is creeping up again as the big, sick member of the area, and a recent rise in Spanish bond yields is a sign that its illness is unlikely to be cured soon.

CNBC

Bank of America to offer rentals as foreclosure alternative

Bank of America says it has begun a pilot program offering some of its mortgage customers who are facing foreclosure a chance to stay in their homes by becoming renters instead of owners.

San Francisco Chronicle

Fannie, Freddie consider mortgage write-downs

NPR

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Pope‘s visit answers Catholics’ prayers

Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Mexico comes as an answered prayer to Catholics on both sides of the border, including Hispanics in Texas who consider Mexico their homeland.

Houston Chronicle

Pope expected to address drug violence

NPR

Map:

Catholicism in Mexico

Economist

‘Reason Rally’ brings nonbelievers to National Mall in Washington

The National Mall will host what is expected to be the largest gathering of atheists in history. Dubbed “Reason Rally,” it will be attended by atheists, agnostics and non-believers of every stripe.

Washington Post

‘Woodstock for atheists’: a moment for nonbelievers to be heard

NPR

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Dieting companies now targeting men

Until recently, ads for weight loss products mostly featured female faces and voices. According to ad industry watchers, the female-centric advertising scared men away.

CNN

Moving in together before marriage no longer a bad omen?

Nearly half of first marriages break up within 20 years, a new government study finds. With those odds, you might wonder: Would we be better off living together first?

NPR

Why marriage makes people happy

U.S. News & World Report

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Richard Black):

Fossil fuels: stubborn to substitution

BBC

Column (D.B. Grady):

Suffrage activism in the age of the hashtag

The Atlantic

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Political cartoons

U.S. News & World Report

Column (Conor Friedersdorf):

How the press can learn from ‘The Daily Show’

The Atlantic

Column (Mr. Toure):

How to talk to young black boys about Trayvon Martin

TIME

Column (Bill Maher):

Please stop apologizing

Star Tribune

Column (Andrew J. Rotherham):

What Barbie could learn from American Girl

TIME

Blog (Mark I. Pinsky):

Where is white church outrage over Trayvon Martin?

CNN

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GOOD NEWS

Soldier who rescued boys from Taliban ambush honored

A soldier who ran through enemy fire to rescue three terrified Afghan children received one of the highest awards for gallantry.

Telegraph.co.uk

American WWII veterans retain ties with comrades in Myanmar

American World War II vets are still repaying “debts” to their comrades-in-arms in Myanmar — without them, they might never have returned home.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Refugees find solace in photos

Taking photos is not what most Americans think of as therapy, but the Philadelphia Refugee Mental Health Collaborative gave Bhutanese refugees cameras so they could then talk about their photos.

Philadelphia Inquirer

WORLD

US eager to send foreign aid to Yemen, a land battling poverty and Al-Qaida

The West sees foreign aid as a way to help counter extremism and issues like child malnutrition, but Yemenis caution against too much, too soon — and point to Afghanistan.

Christian Science Monitor

Intelligence agencies agree: Iran nuclear threat not imminent

U.S. and European allies agree Iran does not have a bomb, has not decided to build one and is likely years away from having a nuclear warhead.

Reuters

HEALTH

Doctors pressure FDA for nonprescription birth control pills

The Food and Drug Administration is considering expanding the list of drugs that can be bought without a prescription, an opening birth-control advocates are seizing.

Bloomberg

Victor J. Cabasso, creator of the polio vaccine, dies

Dr. Victor J. Cabasso, a pioneer virologist and immunologist who worked on creating the polio vaccine and other vaccines against human and animal virus diseases, died at 96.

San Francisco Chronicle

ENVIRONMENT

Mississippi River is awash in toxins

More than 12.7 million pounds of toxic chemicals, such as nitrates, arsenic, benzene and mercury, were dumped into the Mississippi River in 2010, according to a report.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Yes, Deepwater Horizon oil did enter food chain

One concern about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill was the impact on the food chain. A new study shows that impact: Hydrocarbons trickled into the food chain via its tiniest members, zooplankton.

Popular Science

Oil industry seeks fewer environmental regulations to lower gas prices

CNNMoney

EDUCATION

Bank of PTA: Parents scramble to fill school budget gaps

While the National Parent Teacher Association does not keep track of how much money its members raise, interviews confirm that as states slash school funding, parent contributions soar.

Reuters

Completion and quality at CUNY

A feud over new general education requirements at the City University of New York kicked up a notch, as faculty groups filed a lawsuit to block the plan.

Inside Higher Ed

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

The word on computer passwords: Speak, friend, and enter

Computer passwords need to be memorable and secure. Most people’s passwords are the former but not the latter. Researchers are trying to make it easier for them to be both.

Economist

A new explanation may be needed for Earth’s plate tectonics

The Earth’s wandering continents cannot be fully explained by a layer of partially molten rock about 22 to 75 miles underground, NASA scientists say — something else must be contributing.

TG Daily

Seismic survey of the Mariana Trench

Red Orbit

SPORTS

The Bolt effect: how chasing Usain Bolt made the world run faster

Pursuit of the world’s best sprinter has forced competition to be quicker than ever just to keep up.

The Independent

Closing the gender gap in sports

The generalizations of old have fallen by the wayside in the past few decades in the world of high school sports. Girls have gotten just as serious and just as tough-minded as their male counterparts.

Star Tribune

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