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Spanish government, banks prop each other up

Europe‘s plan to lend money to Spain to heal banks may not work because the government and the lenders will in effect be propping each other up, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz said.

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Telegraph.co.uk

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Spain’s massive bailout: Greek anger, but world markets soar

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Daily Mail

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Markets surge after Spain rescue deal

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Al Jazeera

US legacy in Afghanistan: what 11 years of war has accomplished

The war in Afghanistan is now the longest war in U.S. history. It has consumed $57 billion in development aid and the military has spent more than $517 billion. What has the U.S. achieved in Afghanistan?

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Christian Science Monitor

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The war in Afghanistan up close

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TIME

On the border: guns, drugs — and a betrayal of trust

Mayor Nicole Lawson is only 37, but her hair is already graying as she tries to keep the border town of Columbus, corrupted more than a year ago by Mexican cartels, from falling deeper into financial ruin.

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CNN

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A vendor checks flowers she is selling at a flower market in Jakarta, Indonesia. (Photo by Achmad Ibrahim / AP)	A reveler poses for pictures during a Gay Pride Parade in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (Photo by Andre Penner / AP)	Abraham Lincoln presenter Fritz Klein participates in The Civil War Medical Encampment at the Illinois historic Old State Capitol in Springfield, Ill. (Photo by Seth Perlman / AP)

NATION

Efforts to relax pot rules gaining momentum in US

Marijuana policy is appearing on legislative agendas around the country thanks to an energized base of supporters and an increasingly open-minded public.

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Christian Science Monitor

Violent crime in US declines 4 percent, reports FBI

The FBI says the number of violent crimes in the U.S. reported to police fell four percent last year when compared to 2010, while the number of property crimes went down 0.8 percent.

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USA TODAY

POLITICS

Gabrielle Giffords makes rare public appearance in Tuscon

Gabrielle Giffords only spoke a few words, but her many supporters who came to a get-out-the-vote rally and concert at the Rialto Theater say that was enough to make their night.

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CBS News

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GOP focuses on Obama in bid for Giffords’ seat

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Yahoo! News

Cities’ homeless crackdown: could it be compassion fatigue?

A growing number of cities across the United States are adding anti-camping or anti-food-sharing laws, and the ordinances are pitting city officials against homeless advocates.

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USA TODAY

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Higher ground: an innovative approach to fight homelessness

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MinnPost

BUSINESS

More economic fallout: wage theft

For nearly a year, unemployed home health worker Leslie Gilbert of Grand Rapids, Mich., has fought to get more than $400 in unpaid wages from her former employer.

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Federal ban on job bias still eludes gay rights groups

Gay rights activists have made significant strides in recent years on marriage and military service, but one longstanding policy goal remains elusive: a federal law to ban discrimination against gay workers.

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McClatchy Newspapers

ENVIRONMENT

Melting Arctic ‘blooms’ with algae

Scientists in the Arctic have discovered the largest ever under-ice bloom of phytoplankton, likening the discovery to “finding the Amazon rainforest in the middle of the Mojave Desert.”

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CNN

Climate change rate could be faster than thought, study suggests

China’s carbon emissions could be nearly 20 percent higher than previously thought, a new analysis of official Chinese data showed.

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Guardian

EDUCATION

Children go back to basics in math

Children will be introduced to times tables, mental arithmetic and fractions in the first two years of school as part of a back-to-basics overhaul of the National Curriculum.

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Telegraph.co.uk

Utah panel to discuss removal of book about lesbian moms

“In Our Mothers’ House” was recently removed from shelves of elementary school libraries in Davis County, Utah, after a group of parents objected to the story’s content.

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Salt Lake Tribune

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Religious education increasingly ‘marginalized’ in schools

Growing numbers of teenagers are being forced to drop religious studies because of the introduction of new-style league tables that prioritize other disciplines.

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NYC principal bars students from singing ‘God Bless the USA’ at graduation

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FOX News

Vatican-criticized nun addresses fellow theologians in St. Louis

Mercy Sr. Margaret Farley addressed for the first time publicly the Vatican’s harsh criticism of one of her books, saying it points to “profoundly important” questions facing the Catholic community.

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National Catholic Reporter

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Yellow Ribbon: help and hope from soldiers, for soldiers

The military created the Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program in 2008 as a way to help Guard and Reserve members make the transition from soldier to civilian.

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NPR

Pioneers who helped break Marines’ color barrier await honor

The men who broke the color barrier during World War II in the last branch of the military to admit blacks will soon be awarded one of the nation’s highest honors.

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McClatchy Newspapers

US students survive 9 days in wilderness in New Zealand

Two U.S. students trapped in the New Zealand wilderness by a snowstorm trekked back out to safety after surviving their nine-day ordeal by rationing their meager supplies.

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USA TODAY

WORLD

Afghan arsonists seek to enforce truancy from school

Standing at a narrow half-open school gate, two boys in school uniform conduct body searches on fellow pupils and visitors, while others take down details of comings and goings in a register.

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Reuters

Firemen, architects race to save the euro zone in crisis

While investors’ confidence in the ability of European leaders to stem the debt crisis has been ebbing by the day, the redesign now under discussion to will take months, if not years.

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Reuters

HEALTH

How effective are kettlebell workouts?

A few basic movements with a kettlebell can raise heart rate and recruit muscles throughout the body.

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Globeandmail.com

Mental rest tied to concussion healing

Taking a week off from nearly all mental and physical activity was linked with improved mental performance and fewer symptoms in people who had suffered a concussion, a study concluded.

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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

No elegant technical fixes for distracted driving found

Dialing or texting on a phone is a proven distraction when you’re behind the wheel. But as ‘smart’ as today’s phones are, they can’t compensate for human folly.

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Christian Science Monitor

New domain names to break grip of technology giants

A massive overhaul of Internet domain names will unlock the market dominance of a handful of multibillion-dollar technology giants.

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The Independent

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

‘Madagascar 3’ is top weekend film with sales of $60.4 million

DreamWorks Animation’s “Madagascar 3” opened as the top film at U.S. box offices with $60.4 million in U.S. and Canadian theaters, edging out “Prometheus,” a science-fiction thriller from Ridley Scott.

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Bloomberg

Minnesota duo break board game record

It was game on (and on and on) for two Minnesotans who broke a board-game endurance record by playing Strat-O-Matic for more than 61 hours.

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Flying high — non-stop

Jet planes are getting so advanced, soon you’ll be able to just say no to stopovers. Sydney to London in one 20 hour hop: gruesome or godsend?

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The Global Mail

SPORTS

Rafael Nadal beats Novak Djokovic to win record 7th French Open

Rafael Nadal stopped Novak Djokovic’s run in major tennis tournaments by beating him at the French Open for a record seventh men’s title.

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San Francisco Chronicle

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Rafael Nadal’s Grand Slam victories

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Sports Illustrated

Devils’ delays are making the inevitable less so

Twice the Kings have lost with the Stanley Cup waiting in the wings as New Jersey, well-schooled in resilience, grows more confident.

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

New genetic circuit detects cancerous cells and forces them to commit suicide

A new DNA-based logic circuit can sense the signs of cancer, compute that a cell is cancerous and then cause it to self-destruct, researchers say.

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Popular Science

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A Sphinx breed of cat waits on a jury table during an annual International Pedigree Dog Show with Purebred Cats Show in Erfurt, central Germany. (Photo by Jens Meyer / AP)

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