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In this photo, comedian Jerry Seinfeld poses in New York. Known widely for his self-titled hit television show, “Seinfeld,” the actor set the standard for a new type of situational comedy. (Photo by Jim Cooper / AP)

Life after Seinfeld

After permeating popular culture for eight years, Jerry Seinfeld’s sophisticated, strange sitcom has inspired a whole new generation of comics — so why is there nothing quite like it today?

Guardian

Can the networks ever create another night of must-see TV?

NPR

Map:

The show about nothing — interactive

Sony Pictures

Discrimination at airport security? There’s an app for that

Civil rights groups led by The Sikh Coalition unveiled an application for mobile devices that allows airline passengers to report suspected instances of discrimination at airport checkpoints.

USA TODAY

Escape poses new riddle for US, China

Activist Chen Guangcheng’s unwillingness to leave China could complicate negotiations between Washington and Beijing over his fate, bringing the two sides into uncharted territory.

Wall Street Journal

Activist’s fate hangs over Clinton China trip

CNN

Osama bin Laden, 1 year later: the man and the movement

Historians once debated the importance of the “great man” theory of events compared to the “inevitable forces” or trends as the shapers of history. With bin Laden, we see the importance of both.

ABC News

Bin Laden papers from hideout to go online

BBC

Special section:

Osama bin Laden

Guardian

Singularity University: Meet the people who are building our future

Top thinkers from Silicon Valley, including scientists, innovators and philanthro-capitalists, are on a mission to seek solutions to the world’s greatest challenges at the Singularity University.

Guardian

NATION

World Trade Center back as tallest building in NYC

The World Trade Center, the giant monolith being built to replace the twin towers that were destroyed in the September 11 attacks, reclaims the title of New York City’s tallest skyscraper.

Christian Science Monitor

World Trade Center built in 2 minutes

ABC News

EPA official resigns after taped ‘crucify’ comment in 2010

Al Armendariz, an Environmental Protection Agency regional administrator, resigned after comments surfaced in which he compared enforcing laws against polluters to Roman conquerors who crucified foes.

Bloomberg

EPA official says ‘philosophy’ is to ‘crucify’ oil and gas companies

RealClearPolitics

Drugs issued by military led to assaults, murders, doctors say

In a small but growing number of cases across the U.S., lawyers are blaming the military’s heavy use of psychotropic drugs for their clients’ aberrant behavior and related health problems.

Toronto Star

POLITICS

Romney allows big-dollar ‘bundlers’ to remain anonymous

Every presidential nominee since 2000 has revealed the names of influential supporters, known as “bundlers,” because they persuade others to give money to a candidate. Every nominee until Romney.

NPR

Obama, Clintons deepen political ties

Once a tense rivalry, the relationship between Barack Obama and Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton has evolved into a genuine partnership. Both sides have an incentive to make the alliance work in election year.

Virginian-Pilot

BUSINESS

US ‘dirty oil’ imports set to triple

U.S. imports of what environmentalists are calling “dirty oil” are set to triple over the next decade, raising concerns over the environmental impact of extracting it and whether pipelines can safely transport it.

CNNMoney

EU row over Canada’s ‘dirty oil’

Reuters

Stay-at-home dads: more men choosing kids over careers

With wages at a standstill and child care costs skyrocketing, a growing number of dads nationwide are opting to stay at home with the kids.

CNNMoney

ENVIRONMENT

Slaughter of rhinos at record high

Rhinos are being killed in such unprecedented numbers that there are realistic fears they could be wiped from the face of the planet within a generation.

The Independent

Wind farms affect local weather

Wind farms can affect weather in their immediate locality, raising nighttime temperatures on the ground, researchers in Texas have shown.

BBC

HEALTH

Why bad habits are difficult to break

In the battle against addiction, “just say no” is magical thinking, says Dr. Nora Volkow, who, after spending decades working with addicts, thinks that drug addiction physically changes the brain.

CBS News

America’s waistline expands, costs soar

The nation’s rising rate of obesity has been well-chronicled. But individuals, businesses and governments are only now coming to grips with the costs of those extra pounds.

Reuters

EDUCATION

Common Core standards drive wedge in education circles

Efforts to strengthen, simplify and focus the building blocks of elementary and secondary education are finally making their way into schools. But critics are already seizing upon the process.

USA TODAY

Fund preschool now to avoid crime later

At a time when sheriffs, police chiefs and prosecutors are complaining that budget cuts put public safety at risk, a group of law enforcement officials are calling for an increase in funding for preschools.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (David P. Goldman):

The horror and pita

Asia Times Online

Column (Leonard Pitts Jr.):

The Los Angeles riots happened because justice did not

San Jose Mercury News

Editorial:

Return postal plan to sender

Denver Post

Column (Peter Callaghan):

The unwritten rules of baseball, politics

McClatchy Newspapers

Blog (Sarah Laskow):

Wind farms do not cause climate change

Grist

Column (Paul Rosenberg):

Planned Parenthood vs. the NRA: contrasting models of freedom

Al Jazeera

Blog (Terry Dickson):

There is great art on display in D.C.

Florida Times-Union

Column (Kathleen Parker):

Did Obama cross that fine line between cool and silly?

Seattle Times

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GOOD NEWS

An engineering mom leads effort to save an old-growth Russian forest

Yevgenia Chirikova found out a national forest was quietly being sold off. She built one of Russia’s first grass-roots environmental movements and has been vaulted to the center of national politics.

Christian Science Monitor

March for Babies walk raises both money and awareness

Roughly 500 people walked in the March of Dimes’ “March For Babies” 5K in Libertyville, Ill. The walk raised money to help prevent premature birth, birth defects and infant mortality.

Daily Herald

New hotels arise amid ruins in Haiti

At least seven hotels are under construction or are in the planning stage in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, raising hopes that thousands of investors will look to build factories and tourist infrastructure.

San Francisco Chronicle

WORLD

Syrian city hit by 2 suicide bombings

Two suicide bombers blew up cars rigged with explosives near a military compound and a hotel in northwestern Syria, killing at least nine people and wounding generally nearly 100.

Guardian

China’s social media struggles

China is clamping down on social media as it grapples over the escape of a dissident. The case presents new difficulties for Chinese leadership already struggling with the downfall of a politician.

NPR

Is Myanmar about to rejoin the world?

One of the three most closed and isolated countries in the world is opening up. The long-repressed Burmese say it is unbelievable, but they want to believe in a new Myanmar.

Christian Science Monitor

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Google ‘aware of data scoop’

Google’s harvesting of emails, passwords and other sensitive personal information was neither a mistake nor the work of a rogue engineer, according to new details from a regulatory report.

The Age

How tech can help prevent violence

Just as researchers are able to predict tornadoes and tsunamis, they can sometimes predict war and violence, too.

Discovery News

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Occupy an art movement?

There has been so much art focused on Occupy protests that it is beginning to feel like a new artistic movement. Could it supplant galleries?

BBC

Rumble in the jungle: new ‘Jungle Book’

The man who brought the world’s best-known boy wizard is getting ready to reunite Mowgli, Shere Khan and Baloo.

The Independent

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Convent uses Internet for recruitment

As the number of convents and sisters committed to a life of chastity declines, one Canadian based order turns to the Internet to find new recruits.

ABC News

Hiker credits faith for surviving 4 days in Utah desert with broken leg, no food

A hiker who endured four days with a broken leg and no food and shelter in the remote southern Utah high desert says her faith and medical background helped her pull through the ordeal.

Star Tribune

SPORTS

Briere scores in OT, Flyers top Devils

Danny Briere had two chances to celebrate his overtime win. The first time, his goal did not count. The second time, Briere left no doubt and put away Game 1, once and for all.

CBSSports

Flyers 4, Devils 3 (OT)

Philadelphia Inquirer

Clippers rally from 27-point deficit, defeat Grizzlies 99-98

The Clippers’ Chris Paul hit a pair of free throws with 23.7 seconds left to cap off an NBA record for largest comeback at the end of three quarters, beating the Memphis Grizzlies after trailing by 21.

FOXSports

Clippers amazing comeback

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