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In this file photo, supporters of health care reform rally in front of the Supreme Court in Washington on the final day of arguments regarding the health care law signed by President Barack Obama. (Photo by Charles Dharapak / AP)

We are all scientists now

From China to the Congo, a new wave of volunteer science projects aim to allow amateur participants to actively gather data for the benefit of their communities.

BBC

Mars’ dust cloud spotted by amateur

NEWS.com.au

1 in 88 US kids has autism

The number of children with autism in the U.S. continues to rise. The latest data estimates that 1 in 88 children has some form of autism spectrum disorder, a 78 percent increase from a decade ago.

CNN

Blog:

Autism rates jump as diagnosis improves

(NPR)

Shots

Health care law’s fate under discussion

The survival of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul rests with a Supreme Court seemingly split over ideology and is placed in the hands of two Republican-appointed justices.

Columbia Daily Tribune

If Supreme Court scraps law, who wins politically?

Christian Science Monitor

US health care, how it began

Discovery News

House approves GOP budget

The U.S. House approved a strict party-line vote of a Republican budget plan that would restructure Medicare, enact deeper cuts in federal spending and rewrite the tax code for individuals and corporations.

USA TODAY

Statement by press secretary on budget

WHITEHOUSE.GOV

America’s deepening Bible belt divide

Religion in America has an unmistakable geographic dimension. Survey data from the Gallup Organization documents the country’s well-defined “religiosity belt” which stretches across its southern tier.

The Atlantic

NATION

US sees lifetime cost of fighter jet being set at $1.45 trillion

The Pentagon’s latest, staggering estimate of the lifetime cost of the F-35 fighter jet is up from about $1 trillion a year ago, a figure that includes inflation.

Reuters

F-35 delivered to Air Force base

nbcdfw.com

Canada’s ‘Cushing moment’: A northern pipeline crisis looms

Oil traders still grappling with an unprecedented pipeline bottleneck in the U.S. Midwest that roiled energy markets should beware: Canada may be next.

Reuters

POLITICS

Obama outspends Republican campaigns by millions

With Republicans locked in an expensive primary, President Barack Obama has spent far more to build a campaign that is larger and more focused on November‘s election than any of his opponents.

CBS News

Romney reaps party firepower

Mitt Romney is drawing influential Republican backers behind his presidential bid, as rival Newt Gingrich is retrenching for a fight to deny the front-runner the party’s nomination.

Bloomberg

BUSINESS

Mothers trump regulators as Campbell dumps chemical

ConAgra Foods Inc., the maker of Chef Boyardee and Slim Jim snacks, has removed BPA from some of its Hunt’s tomato products and is seeking alternatives for other lines.

Bloomberg

Durable goods orders’ rise indicates business confidence

U.S. companies ordered more long-lasting goods last month, showing that businesses are willing to buy equipment and machinery even after an investment tax credit has been halved.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

HEALTH

Even a little drinking may raise breast cancer risk

Just one alcoholic drink a day can boost a woman’s risk of breast cancer by about 5 percent, according to a new review of existing research.

HealthDay

Obesity rate climbs among Mexican-American adults

About 40 percent of Mexican-American adults were obese in 2010, up from about 35 percent in 2006 and about 21 percent in 1984, according to new government data.

USA TODAY

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Dalai Lama wins Templeton Prize as more than ‘simple Buddhist monk’

He calls himself a “simple Buddhist monk.” But his biographers and religion experts say the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, is way more than that.

Christian Science Monitor

In politically tinged Mass, pope urges Cuban freedom

Pope Benedict XVI demanded more freedom for the Catholic Church in communist-run Cuba in an unusually political sermon before hundreds of thousands at Revolution Plaza.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

EDUCATION

Why so many college students drop out

The phrase “dropout factory” is ordinarily applied to America’s failing high schools, yet the term is quickly becoming associated with institutions of higher education, as well.

The Atlantic

Leftover snow days mean some students can plow into summer

The snowiest U.S. cities had less than 60 percent of their average snowfall this year, and schools across the nation are deciding what to do with leftover emergency weather days.

USA TODAY

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Madonna leaves Malawi ‘struggling’

Celebrity promises have turned to disappointment, finger-pointing and lawsuits in Malawi, a troubled southern African country where Madonna has drastically scaled back charity efforts.

Sydney Morning Herald

Louvre uncovers restoration of Leonardo da Vinci’s last work

The 18-month-long restoration of the painting that Leonardo labored on for 20 years will go a long way to raising “Saint Anne” to its place as one of the most influential Florentine paintings of its time.

Telegraph.co.uk

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Robert Reich):

Break up the big banks, says the Dallas Fed

Huffington Post

Blog (Patricia Murphy):

All-male Augusta can do as it likes — and so can Ginny Rommety

She the People (Washington Post)

Blog (Tom Chivers):

Why liberals need conservatives, and vice versa

Telegraph.co.uk

Blog (Peter Coy):

Women suffer most when government cuts jobs

BusinessWeek

Column (Allison Hoffman):

What does Obamacare look like minus the mandate?

NY Daily News

Column (Annie Murphy Paul):

The secret to grace under pressure

TIME

Column (Marcos Breton):

In battle against Bank of America, undocumented immigrant loses

McClatchy Newspapers

Blog (David Cay Johnston):

Phone service for all, no matter what kind

Reuters

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GOOD NEWS

Black church leads fight against AIDS with HIV testing

It’s been three decades since HIV and AIDS invaded Chicago’s South Side and surrounded Bray Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church near Chicago.

The Republic

Seattle schools aim to create arts education for everyone

Amid budget cuts, the arts have increasingly been pushed to the side. Seattle Public School officials received a $1 million grant from The Wallace Foundation to confront that reality.

Seattle Times

At 98, this once-illiterate lobsterman is now an author

James Arruda Henry had plenty to be proud of as a lobster boat captain who managed to build his own house and raise a family. But he kept a secret into his 90s: He was illiterate.

ABC News

WORLD

US suspends food aid to North Korea

The U.S. has suspended food aid to North Korea because Pyongyang would not refrain from missile launches and cannot be trusted to properly deliver the aid.

Al Jazeera

N. Korea begins fueling controversial satellite

Telegraph.co.uk

Amid fresh diplomacy, US remains wary of direct Syria role

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton departs for talks aimed at halting Syria’s bloodshed, but there is little sign the Obama administration is ready to deviate from its hands-off approach.

Reuters

Blog:

Why Syria’s peace process is a continuation of war by other means

(TIME)

Global Spin

ENVIRONMENT

Scientists cite global warming for more heat waves, heavier rainfall

Scientists are increasingly confident that the uptick in heat waves and heavier rainfall is linked to human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, posing a heightened risk to the world’s population.

Denver Post

Mumbai, Miami on list for big weather disasters

Chicago Sun-Times

Group to tackle global change

An international, interdisciplinary research partnership that was announced at the Planet Under Pressure conference in London could shake up research on global environmental change.

Nature

Blog:

This is the time for global action, manifesto warns

(New York Times)

Green

Fires threaten Sumatran orangutans

Hundreds of critically endangered orangutans in western Indonesia could be wiped out if palm oil companies continue to set land-clearing fires on their land, conservationists say.

Al Jazeera

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Is there a bias against creativity?

Research shows that even as people explicitly aspire to attain creativity, they routinely reject creative ideas and show bias against them.

CNN

Giant solar tornado caught in NASA video

A “tornado” big enough to swallow a hundred Earths has been spied on the sun. Visually, the 124,000-mile-tall solar twister actually resembles one of its Earthly counterparts.

National Geographic

Red-hot Chile peepers: How to make a very large telescope

BBC

Most cities unprepared for coming population boom

Urban areas are set to sprawl over an extra area equivalent to most of Europe, yet little is being done to prepare for the major challenges that expansion will bring, scientists said.

Scientific American

SPORTS

Teaching quarterbacks 1 throw at a time

Some of the country‘s most talented passers are being tutored by a new wave of coaches. They‘re not on coaching staffs or the sidelines — they’re on practice fields working as “quarterback gurus.”

USA TODAY

In bounty seasons, Saints among NFL’s most violent

In a season in which the New Orleans Saints rewarded players for injuring opponents in a “pay-for-pain” bounty scheme, the team was among the most violent in the National Football League.

Reuters

NFL bounties talk of league’s head coaches

Telegram & Gazette

Even small schools pay big for coaches

Big money for coaches at mid-majors can translate to students paying higher bills and schools facing more stress on stretched academic budgets.

USA TODAY

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