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The Unha-3 rocket, slated for liftoff in a satellite launch between April 12-16, is seen in North Korea. North Korean space officials have vowed to push ahead with the controversial launch in defiance of international warnings against violating a ban on missile activity. (Photo by Ng Han Guan / AP)

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National Mall redesign finalists selected

Lakeside gardens, dining rooms over water, grassy amphitheaters and pavilions at the foot of the Washington Monument have emerged as finalists in a design competition to overhaul the National Mall.

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CBS News

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Designs for Constitutional Gardens

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Architectural Record

For freelancers, landing an office workspace is getting harder

Typically, freelancer workers can rent a cubicle and other office resources by the day or the month. But now, more companies are adopting a more selective approach to this process.

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NPR

Nuclear challengers in N. Korea, Iran

The nuclear activities of both North Korea and Iran are stirring up controversy. North Korea is preparing for a long-range rocket launch while Iran has agreed to hold talks on its nuclear program in Istanbul.

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NPR

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China: between a rocket and a hard place with North Korea

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Reuters

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North Korea prepares rocket launch

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Msnbc.com

Vote nears in California water wars

A board meeting of Southern California’s major water wholesaler is soon to discuss a new front in California’s water wars, opened by the agency that purchases water for San Diego and its suburbs.

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ABC News

Students weighed down by debt

With student loan debt swelling, many college students are dreading a change that could soon make some federal student loans pricier. The interest rate on some loans is set to double.

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Star Tribune

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The history of federal student loans

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Federal Education Budget Program

NATION

Questions cloud red-light camera issue

The conversation about red-light cameras keeps simmering, raising the question as to whether they save lives by reducing accidents or whether they’re just a way for cities to raise money.

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USA TODAY

Special prosecutor: no grand jury for Trayvon Martin case

State Attorney Angela Corey has decided not to use a grand jury in her investigation into the shooting death of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin.

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CBS News

Tulsa shooting suspects charged, bond set at $9.1 million each

Two Tulsa men arrested in connection with a shooting spree that left three black men dead and two critically injured were charged with murder and are being held on $9.1 million bonds each.

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ABC News

POLITICS

In foreclosures, Occupy groups see a unifying cause

Fighting foreclosures, activists say, gives the disparate movement a unifying focus by pursuing an issue that has emotional resonance among America’s struggling lower and middle classes.

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Reuters

Lobbyists push Congress to toughen rules for their industry

To help rebuild America’s trust in Washington, the American League of Lobbyists has proposed to toughen registration rules for Capitol Hill lobbyists.

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The Hill

Santorum child’s illness prompts Romney to pull ad

Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign pulled an attack ad targeting Rick Santorum, responding to the Republican rival’s decision to suspend campaigning after the hospitalization of his daughter.

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BusinessWeek

BUSINESS

Facebook to buy Instagram for $1 billion

Facebook said it is acquiring popular photo-sharing app-maker Instagram for $1 billion in what is the social network’s biggest acquisition to date.

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Wall Street Journal

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Some Instagram users revolting over Facebook buyout

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eWeek.com

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Instagram worth $77 million per employee

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The Atlantic

Caterpillar’s big bet on the US economy

It hasn‘t been long since Caterpillar Inc. looked like the typical resident of the Rust Belt. But recently the company has been emerging as the poster child for America’s manufacturing renaissance.

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Reuters

A tablet in every room: how to ‘think different’ about the future

While the iPod and even the iPhone have been groundbreaking in their own right, it is perhaps Apple’s iPad tablet that may have the most profound impact on the world of personal computing.

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TIME

HEALTH

Fish oil delivers few heart benefits, according to study

Millions of Americans take fish oil supplements, hoping to keep their hearts at their healthiest, but a new study has raised questions about these popular dietary supplements.

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ABC News

For women, boxing pulls no punches

For women who crave an intense fitness routine, boxing-based workouts can be efficient and empowering, even if their feet never touch the inside of a ring.

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Reuters

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Churches give their blessings to gadgets in the pews

Church pews nationwide were lit up this Easter, and not just by the glow of so many churchgoers making their once-a-year appearances.

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Popular Science

Gay Mormon students come out to say, ‘It gets better’

Brigham Young University students have launched a web video aimed at reassuring other gay and lesbian youth struggling with their faith and sexual orientation.

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Toronto Star

Caregiving for loved ones the ‘new normal’ for baby boomers

Trying to create the best possible quality of life for an aging relative is “the new normal” for 43.5 million Americans caring for someone older than 50, according to the Family Caregiver Alliance.

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CNN

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Is R&B going extinct?

Recent comments from musicians show anxiety about the genre‘s popularity — and about black artists’ place in it.

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The Atlantic

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A history of R&B and hip-hop

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Guardian

Club Tropicana: Totally tropical fashion comes in from the cold

Could the American everyman wear anything other than a Hawaiian shirt? That’s the tussle in considering this oft-maligned, mostly reviled garment.

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The Independent

Columns And Op-Ed

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Stimulus spending and GSA party animals

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McClatchy Newspapers

As Syria killings rise, a plea goes out for world conscience

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Christian Science Monitor

Blog (Agustín Fuentes, Ph.D.):

Race is real … but not in the way many people think

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Busting Myths About Human Nature

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Column (Michael Snow):

1940 census is a snapshot of a very different America

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CNN

Column (Ana Marie Cox):

Ludicrous, hysterical, brilliant – the top Republican campaign adverts

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Guardian

Column (Victoria Bekiempis):

America’s prescription drug addiction suggests a sick nation

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Guardian

Column (Andrew Billo):

Is ‘Gross National Happiness’ a better measurement than GDP?

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The Atlantic

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Issues that hit close to home

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GOOD NEWS

New Orleans school cultivates a generation of forward-thinking farmers

When Nat Turner moved to New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward, he had a vision to start an urban farm that would be a vehicle for educating and empowering the neighborhood’s youth.

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Grist

New life for boy blinded by shooting

It’s Sunday morning at Sacred Heart Church in Camden, and Jorge Cartagena feels the warm embrace of a new family.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Ways to Work loan program a life-changing opportunity

The Ways to Work program, started in 1984 in Milwaukee, Wis., helps low-income workers get loans on used cars if they agree to continue working and take financial literacy education.

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USA TODAY

WORLD

Syrian troops open fire on rebels in Turkey, Lebanon

Turkey declared a U.N.-backed initiative to end the crisis in Syria was dead after Bashar Assad’s troops opened fire into Turkey and Lebanon, claiming the lives of two refugees and a Lebanese reporter.

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Telegraph.co.uk

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Syria cities under siege

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Sydney Morning Herald

Why are Uganda’s children nodding to their deaths?

While the world still reels at Joseph Kony’s atrocities, hundreds of young people are dying from an illness no one understands and which has no cure.

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The Independent

Special section:

Uganda: country profile

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CIA World Factbook

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Navy’s robot helicopters will automatically spot pirates

For pirates, facing off with Navy SEALs and missile cruisers on their home turf of the high seas is tough enough. Now, the Navy is bringing in the robots.

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Popular Science

Quantum computer built inside diamond

The future of quantum computing may be on display in the form of a quantum computer built inside a diamond, the first of its kind to include protection against harmful noise called “decoherence.”

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Futurity.org

ENVIRONMENT

The plight of dolphins

With sick and dead dolphins washing up on shores around the world, experts are worried and a bit baffled.

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What now for bisphenol A?

The U.S. FDA denied a petition asking it to ban BPA from food and food packaging, but it said its studies of the chemical are not complete.

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Kansas City Star

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Early-life exposure to BPA affects adult learning, study suggests

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ScienceDaily

Loss of Northern Hemisphere carnivores distresses ecosystems

Across the Northern Hemisphere, populations of large herbivores now far exceed their historic levels and are disrupting ecosystems, according to a recent survey.

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Environment News Service

EDUCATION

How college students really get in

Elite universities describe their admissions policies as “holistic,” suggesting they look at the totality of an applicant. But a recent survey indicates that patterns are factored into admission decisions.

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Inside Higher Ed

Schools under fire for targeting vets

Many veterans looking for a school find they are inundated by sales pitches from institutions hungry for their government benefits. Now, lawmakers are looking for ways to protect vets.

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NPR

SPORTS

With a shot only he could hit, Bubba Watson wins Masters in playoff

One man made history, but the other, playing alongside the first, refused to resign himself to spectator status and wound up making history of his own.

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Sports Illustrated

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Masters final round highlights

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CBSSports

Yankees, Red Sox both 0-3 for 1st time since 1966

The last time the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees opened a baseball season like this there was no American League East — and Yankees manager Joe Girardi was one year old.

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USA TODAY

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

The last man on the mountain speaks

Jimmy Weekley, 71, says when he was a kid, there were more than two dozen homes in Pigeonroost Hollow, W.Va. “But right now no one else lives in this hollow except me and the coal company.”

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NPR

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An Indian tosses a rope with a magnet attached at its end into the water as he drags for coins thrown by Hindu devotees as offerings in the holy River Ganges in Allahabad, India. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh / AP)

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