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Cathy Ridge touches an American flag at the grave of her husband, retired U.S. Marine Gunnery Sgt. Charles Edward Ridge, at the Georgia National Cemetery in Canton, Ga. (Photo by David Goldman / AP)

Obama: We must be a ‘nation worthy of your sacrifice’

President Obama said the war in Iraq has ended after nine years and is “winding down” in Afghanistan. But he conceded that the pain of war lingers for the families of those lost in battle.

NPR

Map:

Remember the fallen

CNN

Snapshots from America’s wars

Slate

In Afghanistan, a bowling alley takes minds off bombs

There’s no shortage of strategies to improve life in Afghanistan. But this is the only one centered around rolling heavy neon balls down wooden lanes, sending white pins flying.

Globeandmail.com

Diplomacy on Syria gathers pace

Special envoy Kofi Annan is to visit Damascus, Syria, the day after the U.N. condemned Syria for its use of heavy weaponry in the town of Houla, where at least 108 people were killed.

BBC

Houla survivor tells how family was killed

Guardian

Syria’s year of chaos: a slow-motion civil war

TIME

New ‘cyberwarfare’ virus found in Middle East, according to researchers

A new data-stealing virus dubbed Flame has lurked inside thousands of computers across the Middle East for as long as five years as part of a cyberwarfare campaign.

Reuters

Be afraid: ‘Die Hard 4’ reveals real threat

Sydney Morning Herald

Shots fired, pinpointed and argued over

While more police departments are using a system that triangulates the location of gunshots, questions are also being raised about privacy and police surveillance.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Special section:

Shot Spotter: how it works

Wired

NATION

Seniors grow old under debt

Across the country, baby boomers and other older Americans are drowning in debt, say credit counselors and attorneys.

Baltimore Sun

North Carolina’s new gay marriage ban leaves couples in limbo

In North Carolina, cities and counties that offer domestic partner benefits to employees are in limbo after voters passed a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

NPR

Our country has an unrequited love of the open road

We sing praises to purple mountain majesties and amber waves of grain, but when we drive across America, we mostly just see highway.

CBS News

POLITICS

Political polarization ‘dangerous,’ psychologist says

Democrats and Republicans have sorted themselves into a perfect left-right split, resulting in a “dangerous era” in U.S. politics, says a political psychologist.

LiveScience

Justices’ summer plans point to late June finish of case talks

The justices’ summer travel schedules make it a pretty safe bet that blockbuster health care and immigration cases will be decided by the end of June.

Seattle Times

BUSINESS

Typical CEO made $9.6 million last year

The head of a typical public company made $9.6 million in 2011. The typical American worker would have to labor for 244 years to make what the typical boss of a big public company makes in just one.

Christian Science Monitor

Why home auctions are on a roll in Vegas

In the Nevada desert, local realtors estimate 2/3 of all homes in Las Vegas are “underwater,” meaning owners owe more on their mortgages than their homes are worth.

Toronto Star

EDUCATION

Hard lessons follow rocky start for Chicago high school teacher

Tyrese Graham is a science teacher at John Marshall Metropolitan High School in Chicago. When he started teaching there, Marshall was among the worst public schools in the city.

NPR

Pressure put on grad schools

A new report estimates that by 2020, 2.6 million new jobs will require an advanced degree. If the U.S. wants to fill those jobs, graduate schools need to better prepare students for a range of careers.

Columbus Dispatch

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Just doing his job is the defense for high-level Catholic official

A clergy sex-abuse trial is reaching a crescendo in Philadelphia. Monsignor William Lynn is the first high-level Catholic official to be criminally prosecuted, but not for abusing minors himself.

NPR

Military chaplains: providing a calming voice in ungodly situations

Whether they are performing burial services at Arlington, Va., notifying families when soldiers are killed or supporting soldiers as they recover from injuries, military chaplains are there to help.

Seattle Times

SPORTS

Federer ties Connors’ mark of 233 Grand Slam match wins

Third-seeded Roger Federer cruised past German Tobias Kamke in the first round of the French Open. He is now tied with Jimmy Connors for the most Grand Slam wins in the Open Era.

ABC News

Dario Franchitti wins Indianapolis 500 for 3rd time

Dario Franchitti started 16th in the Indianapolis 500 but ended first, holding off a charge by Japan’s Takumo Sato on the final lap to win a gripping edition of the Greatest Spectacle in Racing.

Indianapolis Star

Dario Franchitti wins 3rd Indy 500

ESPN

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Philip Gourevitch):

The Syria dilemma

The New Yorker

Column (Marc Dion):

Tough guys live in Europe

Creators Syndicate

Cartoon (Tom Toles):

Facebook: hype vs. reality

San Jose Mercury News

Editorial:

Driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants? It makes sense

Denver Post

Column (Leonard Pitts, Jr.):

A salute to the man who made our lives easier and our butts bigger

Seattle Times

Column (Mitch Albom):

Save the questions for humans, not your phone

Detroit Free Press

Blog (Carrie Barron, M.D.):

Why daydreaming is good for you

(Psychology Today)

The Creativity Cure

Column (Robert J Samuelson):

Economic psychology needs to be explained

Columbus Dispatch

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GOOD NEWS

War veterans connect through softball

Participation in athletic pastimes can be a key factor in the successful rehabilitation of the nearly 1,500 American service members who have lost limbs in military action over the past decade.

Reuters

Cause of stunted growth discovered

The genetic cause of a syndrome that causes stunted growth in babies has eluded scientists since it was discovered 20 years ago. Now, a gene mutation has been pinpointed as the culprit.

LiveScience

Hayward student’s geography bee move pays off

Varun Mahadevan, 13, of Hayward, Calif., took a high-risk bet that landed him a $10,000 college scholarship and third place in the National Geographic Bee.

San Francisco Chronicle

WORLD

Bhutan has its charms, but ‘Shangri-La’ is no paradise

Premium-paying tourists have long eulogized Bhutan’s unspoiled charms, its peace and its pristine environment, but the Himalayan kingdom, famed as the “last Shangri-La,” is no idyll.

Reuters

Kenyan capital rocked by large blast

A large explosion has hit the center of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. Several people are believed to have been wounded, reports say. TV pictures showed a fire raging in a badly damaged building.

BBC

Illegal kidney trade booms as new organ is ‘sold every hour’

The illegal trade in kidneys has risen to such a level that an estimated 10,000 black market operations involving purchased human organs now take place annually, or more than one an hour.

Guardian

ENVIRONMENT

NOAA predicts hurricane seasons

If the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s predictions for the hurricane seasons for the Eastern Pacific, Atlantic and Central Pacific regions hold up, it could be a very normal season.

PlanetSave.com

Blog:

Strongest May tropical cyclone in more than a century hits Florida

(Msnbc.com)

U.S. News

Weather around the world

ABC News

Culture splits climate views rather than science smarts

Support for climate science doesn’t increase with science literacy, a survey suggests. Rather, people with technical backgrounds just dig in harder on their views about global warming.

USA TODAY

HEALTH

73-year-old woman scaling Everest proves you can age well

Japanese mountaineer Tamae Watanabe, 73, set a world record by becoming the oldest woman to scale Mount Everest. She broke her own record set when she was 62.

USA TODAY

Scientists work to turn bad fat into good

Ohio State University researchers have triggered a neurological process in mice that they believe could one day help people lose weight. The team changed the fat makeup of mice in the absence of cold.

Columbus Dispatch

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Long recovery from great mass extinction

It took some 10 million years for Earth to recover from the greatest mass extinction of all time, latest research has revealed.

ScienceDaily

Astronauts aboard International Space Station to spend holiday unpacking

Rather than kick their feet up, the astronauts aboard the International Space Station will be unloading cargo from the first private spacecraft ever to visit the orbiting lab.

Discovery News

Dragon’s Space Station arrival in pictures

SPACE.com

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Historians fret fate of War of 1812 sites

Nationwide, 164 battlefields and historic sites from the War of 1812 and the American Revolution face “medium” or “high” risk of destruction by 2018.

Baltimore Sun

Not so wild, a little less crazy

Steve Martin has become a refined man: He writes novels and plays, even collects art. But it’s still odd to picture Martin strummin’ on that old banjo with a symphony.

Boston Herald

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