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UN General Secretary Ban-Ki Moon, left, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, prepare for the meeting on Afghanistan at the NATO Summit in Chicago. (Photo by Christophe Ena / AP)

Returning to society: how will inmates be received?

States, eager to save money and adopt alternatives to incarceration, are releasing inmates in record numbers. Is society ready for the surge?

Christian Science Monitor

More than 2,000 convicted then exonerated in 23 years, study claims

ABC News

Creaking infrastructure holds back US economic growth

Inland waterways keep the nation’s economy flowing as they transport $180 billion of coal, steel and other goods each year. Yet, an antiquated system threatens timely delivery of those goods.

USA TODAY

NATO to endorse Afghanistan exit plan

NATO leaders will endorse plans to hand over combat command in Afghanistan by mid-2013 and seek practical progress in opening routes to bring troops back home from an unpopular, resource-draining war.

Reuters

Rising violence threatens NATO’s Afghanistan exit strategy

The Independent

Police, protesters clash outside NATO summit

CNN

Rutgers trial: Dharun Ravi to make statement before sentencing

Former Rutgers student Dharun Ravi will make a statement to a packed New Brunswick, N.J. courtroom before he is sentenced. In March, Ravi was found guilty of a hate crime.

ABC News

Watch live: Ravi sentencing

CBS News

Pollution is warming the atmosphere through summer thunderstorms

Summer thunderstorm clouds strengthened by pollution are warming the atmosphere, says a new study by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science.

PlanetSave.com

Special section:

Climate change

Guardian

NATION

Live alone? You are not the only one

One is no longer the loneliest number. Roughly four out of 10 households are single-person homes in several cities.

CBS News

Minority count gaps in 1940s census

More than a million black people were not accounted for in 1940, an undercount that had ramifications on everything from the political map to the distribution of resources.

Arizona Republic

For farmers, fracking is salvation, or ruin

In the middle of the debate over whether the gas unlocked by fracking is worth the risks of water contamination and health effects are the landowners who must decide whether to sell their mineral rights.

Winston-Salem Journal

Shale gas fracking: the facts and figures

Guardian

POLITICS

Donors find ways to remain anonymous

The latest deadline for the presidential candidates and the major super PACs to disclose their finances is over. The public and the press can find out who has been giving to the candidates.

NPR

Stephen Colbert spawns army of super PACs

CNNMoney

Gay activists to Obama: What is next?

President Barack Obama’s embrace of same-sex marriage was a major moment for gay-rights advocates. But they are already starting to ask about next steps.

Politico

BUSINESS

The fortunate 50: pay up 12 percent for the top 50 execs

The 50 executives on the list received an average of $7.3 million in salary, perquisites, stock and other compensation for their company’s most recent fiscal year, representing nearly a 12 percent raise.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

JPMorgan CIO risk chief said to have trading-loss history

Irvin Goldman, who oversaw risks in JPMorgan Chase & Co., was fired by another Wall Street firm in 2007 for money losing bets that prompted a regulatory sanction at the firm.

Bloomberg

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Ultra-Orthodox Jews hold NYC meeting to protest Internet

Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men attended a rally at the New York Mets’ stadium on the dangers of the Internet and how to use modern technology in a religiously responsible way.

Huffington Post

Radical Islamists urge bigger role for Islam in Tunisia

Thousands of radical Islamists rallied in the central Tunisian town of Kairouan to demand a wider role for religion in a country long considered one of the Arab world’s most secular.

Reuters

Haredi draft could cause gender issue

After six decades of exempting ultra-Orthodox from the army, the Israeli government appears resolved to draft them. But the plan may have unintended negative consequences for women.

Forward

EDUCATION

Grove City College: low on costs, leads on many academics

With the post-graduation employment picture still seemingly grim, the specter of college debt looms large, which is why Grove City College, in Grove City, Pa., and its tuition are so appealing to students.

EducationNews.org

Blog:

Are the world college rankings fair?

Education Insider News Blog

(Education-Portal.com)

Push to raise Michigan’s kindergarten start age gains steam

Tina Everard feels for the four-year-olds who enter her kindergarten classroom at the beginning of the school year. They would rather play when it is time for reading and math.

Detroit Free Press

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Robin Gibb, Bee Gees co-founder, singer, dead at 62

Robin Gibb, one-third of the Bee Gees, died after a long battle with cancer, his spokesperson has confirmed. Gibb was 62 years old.

Rolling Stone

Robin Gibb: life in pictures

Telegraph.co.uk

Economically, tall ships are a tall order

The age of sail ended in Hampton Roads when two steam-powered ironclads fought in the James River in 1862. Steam and iron proved superior to sail and wood, and the title has never been relinquished.

Virginian-Pilot

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Keith Shore):

Is the college cave age about to end?

Bloomberg

Column (Christopher J. Ferguson):

What you need to know about the new numbers on Hispanic births

TIME

Editorial:

Anti-sweatshop law makes statement for San Francisco

San Francisco Examiner

Editorial:

Net metering: Keep solar power shining

San Francisco Chronicle

Blog (Eric Sherman, LCSW):

Gay rights and other gays wronged

(Psychology Today)

Couch Meets World

Column (Ben Barber):

$40 billion in foreign aid may be wasted each year

McClatchy Newspapers

Column (Mark Hinueber):

It is just a car

Las Vegas Review Journal

Column (Laurie Andrews):

His profit, your problem

NY Daily News

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GOOD NEWS

Triathlete meets doctor who saved his life after cycling crash

Matt Miller, an aspiring young triathlete, survived a cycling crash that, but for an extraordinary stroke of luck, would have killed him.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Foothill High School seniors ask special-needs classmates to prom

Students at Foothill High School, in Henderson, Nev., aproached school staff, saying they wanted to ask all the special needs seniors to the prom in one-on-one dates.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Program helps moms who need it most

The Nurse Family Partnership’s goal is to improve infant health. Nurses work with at-risk mothers to teach them how to care for a child and how to improve themselves.

Columbus Dispatch

WORLD

After a freefall, Zimbabwe finds stability

Zimbabwe’s inflation rate topped 79 billion percent in late 2008. The country switched to the U.S. dollar — a move that experts say greatly stabilized the economy.

NPR

Mongolia rapidly becoming ‘Minegolia’

Mongolia is in the midst of a remarkable transition. Rich in coal, gold and copper, this country of fewer than 3 million people is riding a mineral boom that is expected double its GDP within a decade.

NPR

ENVIRONMENT

Solar eclipse projects a ‘ring of fire’

The shadow of the moon started sweeping across the globe from Hong Kong to the Texas panhandle as a rare annular solar eclipse began in Asia.

CNN

Blog:

Solar eclipse goes social and global

(Msnbc.com)

Cosmic Log

Annular solar eclipse of May 20, 2012

SPACE.com

Greens’ concern for draft energy bill

Environmentalists now fear that the U.K. government’s draft energy bill will end in a new “dash for gas.”

BBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Electric dreams: e-scooters power up

As fuel prices soar and cities become more congested, car manufacturers — and the public — are beginning to support the use of e-scooters.

BBC

Songbirds’ learning hub in brain offers insight into motor control

To learn its signature melody, the male songbird uses a trial-and-error process to mimic the song of its father, singing the tune over and over again, making subtle changes in the pitch of the notes.

ScienceDaily

HEALTH

Health care costs rise faster than US inflation rate

Doctors, hospitals and drugmakers raised prices faster than inflation in 2010, driving U.S. health costs higher as fewer Americans sought care after the recession.

BusinessWeek

Blog:

What it is like to be sick in America

(NPR)

Shots

World’s 1st stem cell drug approved

Health Canada has approved its groundbreaking stem cell therapy Prochymal. The drug can be used to treat children with acute graft versus host disease.

Medical News Today

Sleep apnea linked to higher cancer risk

Sleep apnea has already been linked to a host of adverse health problems. Now, new research suggests that in people who already have cancer, the sleep disorder may raise their risk of dying from cancer.

Philadelphia Inquirer

SPORTS

LeBron James drops 40 as Heat even series with Pacers

James scored 40 points, 18 rebounds and nine assists while teammate Dwayne Wade added 30 points — 22 in the second half — as Miami rallied to even their series against Indiana with a 101-93 win.

ESPN

LeBron prepares for Pacers — by reading ‘The Hunger Games’

USA TODAY

The wonder that tennis forgot

A decade ago, Brian Baker was one of the best junior tennis players in the world, the wiry kid from Nashville, Tenn., with the punishing game — so good he would later reach the boys’ final of the French Open.

Wall Street Journal

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