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People walk past Hotel El Caribe in Cartagena, Colombia. Twelve Secret Service employees are accused of misconduct in connection with a prostitution scandal at the hotel last week before President Barack Obama’s arrival for the Summit of the Americas. (Photo by Pedro Mendoza / AP)

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Lab chimps get a new lease on life

More than 265 chimpanzees once lived at a New Mexico medical research facility, confined to small cages. Now, after nearly a decade of rehabilitation, the chimps are in a sanctuary in Fort Pierce, Fla.

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CNN

Slump taught spendthrift Americans the value of saving

Americans are likely to keep rebuilding their savings for years to come as the specter of job losses and the meltdown in stocks triggered by the recession lingers, economists say.

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Bloomberg

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America’s obsession with Costco

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CNBC

Secret Service agents resign amid scandal

Three more Secret Service officers resigned in a prostitution scandal that has brought scorching criticism of agents’ behavior in Colombia before President Barack Obama’s visit to that country.

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ABC News

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Prostitute scandal challenges US Secret Service’s proud culture

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Reuters

12th Secret Service agent implicated in prostitution scandal; 3 more quit

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Msnbc.com

Experts say Zimmerman attorney made smart move

Legal experts say that George Zimmerman’s defense attorney managed to reveal weaknesses in prosecutors’ second-degree murder case against the neighborhood watch volunteer.

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ABC News

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Trayvon Martin shooting

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CBS News

Bahrain opens probe into man’s death amid protests

Bahraini opposition groups claimed that a man was killed during clashes with security forces, threatening to escalate unrest in the Gulf nation that is serving as a host of the Formula One Grand Prix.

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USA TODAY

NATION

Some neighborhoods dangerously contaminated by lead fallout

Hundreds of soil tests in neighborhoods near former lead factories show numerous areas where the dirt is so contaminated that children should not be playing in it — yet they are.

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USA TODAY

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Yards near former lead foundry untested

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Detroit Free Press

As workers age, oil industry will see detrimental skills gap

Two years after the Deepwater Horizon accident, there‘s still a pressing issue looming for the oil industry: Oil field workers are retiring, leaving a workforce that’s younger and less experienced.

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NPR

2 years after the Gulf oil spill, why we won’t stop drilling

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(TIME)

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POLITICS

Meet the media companies that are lobbying against transparency

Many of the country’s biggest media companies are flexing their muscles in Washington in a fight against a government initiative to increase transparency of political spending.

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ProPublica

Reports to detail post-Super Tuesday campaign cash

For the first time since the Super Tuesday primaries, voters are getting a look at just how much money presidential candidates and their supporters have been raking in.

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Paul campaign touts campaign cash

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BUSINESS

Hold that password: the new reality of evaluating job applicants

The identity that individuals create in the world of social media is quickly becoming an important factor in hiring decisions and in people’s broader professional lives.

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TIME

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Md. passes bill outlawing social media password requests by employers

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High expectations: Marketers hope for buzz on 4/20

April 20 marks a high holiday for marijuana enthusiasts. This year, marketers are trying to get in on the buzz, and marijuana advocates say the commercialization just proves that pot is gaining acceptance.

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Wall Street Journal

US barnyards are helping China super-size food production

Inside a dimly lit barn in northeast Indiana, where the air smells faintly of corn and earth, the future of China’s food supply is squealing for attention.

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Reuters

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Richard Dutcher: leaving his faith, staying with film

Richard Dutcher isn’t the first artist who found his Mormon faith at odds with his artistic expression, but the story of how he went from devotion to doubt is more jarring than most.

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Salt Lake Tribune

Vatican censures ‘feminist’ nuns for supporting US healthcare reform

The Vatican, already battered by scandals, faces another public relations disaster after censuring “feminist” nuns in the U.S. allegedly for their support of President Barack Obama’s health reforms.

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The Independent

Sister Simone Campbell: Vatican reprimand ‘a sock in the stomach’

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NPR

EDUCATION

A 13-year-old NC student achieves perfect SAT math score

While other pre-K children were learning to read their first sentences, Lloyd Liu already knew his multiplication tables. In second grade, the math curriculum no longer challenged him.

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McClatchy Newspapers

Texas board wants calculators out of grade schoolers’ hands

Texas schoolchildren should not use calculators until they learn to work through math problems the old-fashioned way — on paper, State Board of Education members are saying.

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Houston Chronicle

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Young Israel’s new love affair with Germany

After decades of wariness, Israelis have discovered a new love for Germany. For a new generation of confident, young Israelis, the country has become one of their favorites.

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Spiegel International

New vinyl album releases give record stores a kick

Katy Perry is just one artist among many musicians going old school — releasing music on pressed vinyl records — to help celebrate Record Store Day.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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Record Store Day’s coolest vinyl collectibles

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Wired

Are language cops losing war against ‘wrongly’ used words?

Language enthusiasts bemoan the way words are being misused. But are the meanings they view as improper destined to take over?

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BBC

Columns And Op-Ed

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Obama bases policies on science — when it suits him

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Washington Examiner

Homeowners Bill of Rights is facing a stiff fight

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San Francisco Chronicle

Treatment, yes, but not this bill

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Denver Post

Column (Stephen Moss):

How to reconnect children with nature

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Guardian

2 years after BP spill, lower risks

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USA TODAY

Column (Mike Downey):

Fenway at 100: love it, revere it, blow it up

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CNN

Column (Kevin Drum):

Food deserts not to blame for obesity and poor nutrition

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Mother Jones

Column (Jonathan Zimmerman):

A teachable moment about free speech

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Christian Science Monitor

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GOOD NEWS

Runner’s determination is boundless

In 2009, Jeff Puuri was pushing 260 pounds and suffered from high blood pressure and high cholesterol. Now he is ready to join hundreds of runners toeing the line in the Blue Ridge Marathon.

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Ford, UAW give $100,000 for Detroit high school band’s trip to Olympics

Ford and the UAW jointly announced they were donating $100,000 to Detroit’s Martin Luther King High School Jazz and Marching Band for use toward a trip to the Olympics in London.

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Detroit Free Press

Single moms honored for successfully breaking poverty cycle

The Irene O. Bartko Award honors Bartko Foundation Grant recipients who have made the best use of their monetary gift in achieving self-sufficiency.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

WORLD

India missile test may be sign of Asian arms buildup

India’s successful test of a long-range ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead is the latest escalation of a possible arms race in Asia.

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Msnbc.com

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India missile test escalates Asia arms race

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Star Tribune

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India launches nuclear capable missile

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Telegraph.co.uk

G-20 urges Europe to fix crisis

Europe’s governments were told the onus for fixing their debt woes lies with them as the Group of 20 warned the two-year crisis still threatens global growth.

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BusinessWeek

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A 3rd industrial revolution

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Economist

The science of civil war

Generals commanding the world’s most advanced armies have been able to rely on accurate forecasts of the outcomes of conventional battles thanks to computer models predicting civil conflict.

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Economist

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Cell phone study shows evolving lifetime relationships in men and women

The calling patterns of three million cellphone users support a theory that female relationships change with shifting biological priorities, suggesting that women may drive evolutionary fitness.

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Scientific American

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Meat-eating behind evolutionary success of humankind, study suggests

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ScienceDaily

Genetics matter when it comes to canine cadaver-sniffing skills. Beagles, bloodhounds, German shepherds and Labrador retrievers are best, although many breeds are appropriate for this job.

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Slate

ENVIRONMENT

Global sanitation target under threat

A U.N. high-level meeting is expected to call on world leaders to support the 57 countries currently most off-track to achieve their millennium development goal targets for sanitation.

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Guardian

Fukushima Daiichi: inside the debacle

The epic debacle at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station remains front and center in Japan, at the very core of a historic debate taking place over the future of nuclear energy.

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CNNMoney

HEALTH

FDA proposes rules for putting nanotechnology in food

Regulators are proposing that food companies that want to use tiny engineered particles in their packaging may have to provide extra testing data to show the products are safe.

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USA TODAY

Cancer screening feeds debate

A new technology makes screening for esophageal cancer a cinch. And it threatens to open a new front in the fight over the costs and benefits of looking for disease in patients who aren’t sick.

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Reuters

SPORTS

Clashes in Bahrain ahead of F1 race

Formula One cars took to the track in Bahrain, with the government hoping for a successful Grand Prix, while activists are promising “days of rage” after more than a year of Arab Spring protests.

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Al Jazeera

Fenway Park’s unlikely 100th birthday

It was 100 years ago that Fenway Park opened, and one thing is certain: Now is a happier time for the ball park than its 50th birthday was.

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The Atlantic

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Nonprofits watch anxiously as the market begins to wobble

Charities of all sizes are only beginning to recover from the recession. Now many are wondering how they’ll survive another market plunge.

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NPR

Photo of the Day

The shadow of German artist Gerhard Mantz falls into his video installation “Future Memory Number 4” in Erfurt, Germany. (Photo by Jens Meyer / AP)

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