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Astronaut Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin Jr. poses for a photograph beside the U.S. flag deployed on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission. (Photo by Neil Armstrong, NASA, file photo / AP)

Is it time to go back to the moon?

With so many exciting celestial bodies in our solar system and beyond, it’s easy to take the moon for granted. Did you know that no human being has set foot on the moon since Apollo 17 in December 1972?

Discovery News

Fly to the moon — if you’ve got the cash

Telegraph.co.uk

Single dads by choice

With more stay-at-home dads, and fathers generally spending more time caring for kids, advocates say men are realizing they don’t necessarily need a wife to be a parent.

NPR

Listeners shape evolution of music

Research supports the theory that culture and art are shaped by processes similar to those in biological evolution.

Scientific American

Leaders focus on banks as IMF raises lending capacity

G-20 leaders focused their response to Europe’s financial crisis on stabilizing banks as the International Monetary Fund raised its lending capacity to shield the rest of the world economy.

San Francisco Chronicle

Europe vows closer union at G20 summit

Reuters

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G20 summit

Guardian

Obama’s immigration policy favored 2 to 1 in poll

President Barack Obama is winning the battle over immigration, according to a poll, putting Republicans on the defensive with his decision to end deportations of certain illegal immigrants.

Bloomberg

Political panel: Immigration conversation

MSNBC

Blog:

What Obama’s immigration decision might mean for 2012

(New York Times)

Five Thirty Eight

Dimon faces more questions over $2B trading loss

The JPMorgan Chase CEO returned to Capitol Hill to face more questions from lawmakers over a trading loss incurred by the bank, testifying before the House Financial Services Committee.

Seattle Times

JPMorgan Chase CEO on bank’s loss

CNN

NATION

Colorado fire tops 58,000 acres; weather stays hot and windy

Firefighters in northern Colorado made progress battling a raging wildfire in the hills west of Fort Collins despite nature seeming to work against them.

CNN

Potential looters pose new threat

ABC News

Silenced Michigan lawmaker part of protest reading of ‘Vagina Monologues’

Several thousand people thronged the state Capitol lawn to protest the treatment of two female lawmakers who were barred from speaking on the House floor.

Detroit Free Press

POLITICS

Parties jockey on health care reform ahead of court ruling

Both Republicans and Democrats await a landmark ruling on the 2010 health care reform from the Supreme Court. The political stakes are high on an issue which, as many polls show, has divided the nation.

Reuters

Republicans seek cuts to food stamp program with new farm bill

The 1,000-page “farm bill” being debated in the Senate is somewhat of a misnomer. Four of every five dollars in it — roughly $80 billion a year — goes for grocery bills for one of every seven Americans.

CBS News

MIDDLE EAST

Iran nuclear talks: delusions on both sides of the table

When a spokesman for the Western delegation called the nuclear talks a “tough and intense exchange of views,” he left no doubt that the negotiations may be in serious trouble.

TIME

Egypt presidential election: Ahmed Shafiq claims victory

A campaign spokesman for Mubarak‘s ex-prime minister said that Ahmed Shafiq has won Egypt’s presidential election, countering the Muslim Brotherhood’s claims and setting the stage for a divisive fight.

Huffington Post

BUSINESS

Microsoft unveils Surface tablets

Microsoft finally had its Apple moment. The software giant unveiled a family of home-brewed tablets to rival Apple’s iPad at an extremely hush-hush event in Los Angeles, shrouded in mystery.

USA TODAY

Special section:

Microsoft breaks tradition with a Microsoft Surface tablet

CNET News

The online water-cooler experience

Millions are spent on “solutions” to “facilitate” rare informal links between departments, but are business social networking sites the way to go?

BBC

EDUCATION

Grim job prospects could scar today’s college graduates

The nonpartisan Economic Policy Institute called the labor market “grim” and said that unemployment among college graduates younger than 25 had averaged 9.4 percent.

USA TODAY

Arts graduates are generally satisfied and employed, survey shows

A recent survey of graduates of arts colleges and of arts programs within broader universities suggests that arts graduates — counter to the stereotype — are not all facing unemployment.

Inside Higher Ed

SPORTS

Miami Heat again finds itself with 2-1 lead in NBA Finals

For the second consecutive season, the Miami Heat holds a 2-1 lead in the NBA Finals. Miami hosts the Oklahoma City Thunder in this championship series.

Seattle Times

Roger Clemens acquitted of federal charges over steroid use

Roger Clemens, who won more than 350 games in a 24-year career, was found not guilty of lying to Congress about his use of performance-enhancing drugs.

San Francisco Chronicle

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

The re-re-re-rise of the corset

Corset sales are booming, but peaks and troughs of demand tell a story about feminism and body image over the past 200 years.

BBC

Slaves to public opinion: Adidas scraps shackle shoes

Barraged by expressions of outrage, Adidas has announced that it’s pulling a shoe design that critics say evokes slavery.

The Age

Blog:

Are Adidas’ new basketball shoes racist, or just ugly?

(Philadelphia Inquirer)

Pattison Ave

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Paul Krugman):

Don’t blame the Greeks

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Editorial:

Millions and millions of reasons to revisit Citizens United

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Column (Lawrence J. Cohen and Anthony T. Debenedet):

The problem with ‘no hug’ policies

TIME

Column (Marc Caputo):

Romney’s immigration stance: What would Rubio do?

McClatchy Newspapers

Blog (John Birmingham):

It‘s a changing media landscape — and it’s your fault

The Age

Column (Thomas Donnelly):

Obama fails to act in Syrian conflict

NPR

Column (Ron Dzwonkowski):

Rodney King’s haunting question

Detroit Free Press

Column (Jonathon Turley):

America’s liquor laws, our traditional socialism

USA TODAY

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GOOD NEWS

‘Trash for food’ at Mexico City barter market an instant hit

A new barter market in Mexico City is helping residents trade their trash for food in an effort to reduce the mountain of waste produced by the mega city. It has proved an instant hit with residents.

CNN

A lifeline for needed medication

Volunteers spend their days faxing, calling, copying, talking with people across a desk, and filling out complex forms to get drug companies to give free medicines to people who cannot afford them.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Pulling up pavement in Portland: from parking lots to ‘paradise’

The nonprofit group Depave, in Portland, Ore., removes unused and unwanted pavement, not only to beautify the city, but also to fight water pollution and cut pollution from stormwater runoff.

Christian Science Monitor

WORLD

Relieved Europe hints at more time for Greece’s fiscal targets

Germany, relieved at a narrow election victory for Greece’s pro-bailout parties, signaled it may be willing to grant Athens more time to meet fiscal targets to avert a catastrophic euro exit.

Reuters

Special section:

Greek debt crisis

CBS News

Suu Kyi greeted by cheers on emotional return to Britain

Myanmar’s Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is on an emotional visit to Britain, where she left her family 24 years ago and took up her famous struggle against the military dictatorship in her homeland.

Reuters

Retracing the life of Burma’s Suu Kyi in Britain

BBC

Confined to a fishing boat — for 3 years

Thailand’s giant fishing fleet is chronically short of up to 60,000 fishermen per year, so human traffickers have stepped in, selling captives to captains for a few hundred dollars each.

NPR

ENVIRONMENT

Rio Earth Summit: 20 years later, will world make good on ‘broken promises’?

The 1992 Rio Earth Summit in Brazil delivered a plan of action that would tackle greenhouse gases and climate change, stop species going extinct and save the forests.

Msnbc.com

Rio+20 People’s summit gathers pace

Guardian

Shortages: water supplies in crisis

Over the past 40 years the world’s population has doubled. Our use of water has quadrupled. Yet the amount of water on Earth has stayed the same.

BBC

Aboriginal rock art is 28,000 years old

Aboriginal rock art found in remote Australia has been dated at 28,000 years old, experts said Monday, prompting new speculation that indigenous communities were among the world’s most advanced.

Discovery News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Why are we so curious?

Evolution made us the ultimate learning machines, and the ultimate learning machines need to be oiled by curiosity. What could be going on in your brain to make you so inquisitive?

BBC

A constant craving for mobile technology

Our love affair with devices is more than just a distraction — it could be changing our brains and our personalities.

The Independent

HEALTH

American kids getting fewer prescription drugs, research concludes

New research shows that the number of prescriptions written for children has dropped by 7 percent in recent years. Antibiotic use is down, but ADHD and asthma prescriptions went up.

U.S. News & World Report

Blog:

How to assess your teen’s risk factors for drug addiction

Huffington Post

The aging brain: why getting older just might be awesome

Prevailing wisdom is that creative endeavors are good for helping to slow the decline of mental capabilities. But what if the aging brain is more creatively capable than its younger counterpart?

CNN

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Baptists to elect 1st black president

The largest Protestant denomination is expected to elect its first black president, just weeks after the predominantly white religious group reprimanded an official for making racially insensitive remarks.

Reuters

Belief in hell lowers crime rate

According to a University of Oregon psychologist, when it comes to predicting criminal behavior, the specific religious beliefs one holds is the determining factor.

Huffington Post

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