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President Barack Obama speaks during a news conference at the G-20 summit in Los Cabos, Mexico. (Photo by Carolyn Kaster / 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

US ‘encouraged’ by eurozone plans

President Barack Obama said he is encouraged by European leaders’ plans to tackle the eurozone crisis. World leaders said they would take “all necessary measures” to protect the euro area.

BBC

Pleas for urgent reform fall on deaf ears

The Age

Special section:

G-20 meeting

Guardian

Chicago youth death rates on the rise

Business is disturbingly steady for Chicago funeral director Spencer Leak, who said he’s been doing upwards of 125 funerals a year for homicide victims, many of them young adults, some just teenagers.

Msnbc.com

Gang wars are at the root of Chicago’s high murder rate

CBS News

The evolving way we listen to music

What are you listening to? Chances are you accessed it from a streaming music-subscription service. Who wins and loses from the surging popularity of such sites as Rdio or Spotify?

The Global Mail

The World in Photos .........................................................................
A Pakistani vendor sleeps inside a cart next to his tomatoes at a wholesale market on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. (Photo by Muhammed Muheisen / AP)	A man runs on Botafogo Beach near a huge sculpture made from plastic bottles in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by Victor R. Caivano / AP)	Chris Miller works on his sculpture of a pickup truck made from fieldstone and granite in his yard in Calais, Vt. (Photo by Toby Talbot / AP)

NATION

The high costs of high security at supermaximum security prisons

llinois has joined a growing list of states starting to turn away from the Supermax concept. State legislators have proposed closing its only supermaximum prison or converting it into a lower-security facility.

NPR

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

POLITICS

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

Blog:

What Obama’s immigration decision might mean for 2012

(New York Times)

Five Thirty Eight

Political panel: Immigration conversation

MSNBC

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

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

MIDDLE EAST

Egypt’s Mubarak on life support

Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak was being kept alive by life support after he was rushed from prison to a military hospital in a rapidly worsening condition.

Associated Press

Britain stops Russian ship carrying attack helicopters for Syria

A Russian ship was stopped by the British government due to fears that it may be carrying helicopters and missiles to Syria — as Russia announced it was sending troops to the region.

Daily Mail

William Hague: Russian ship carrying arms to Syria ‘has turned back’

Telegraph.co.uk

BUSINESS

Teens ‘struggling to survive’ a historically tough job market

Here is a message for recent high school graduates: Finding a good job has likely never been harder — especially if you are trying to start a full-time career.

McClatchy Newspapers

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

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

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

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

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

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

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The Daily Quote

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Blog (Michael Moran):

How oil may end a conflict

(Slate)

The Reckoning

Column (Alex Seitz-Wald):

GOP senators: No disclosure, please

Salon

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

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Washington Post

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Boston Globe

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Washington Post

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ESPN

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GOOD NEWS

US charitable giving approaches $300B

Giving by Americans increased 4 percent in 2011 compared with 2010, with individual donations accounting for nearly three-quarters of all donations.

Msnbc.com

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

Suu Kyi greeted by cheers on emotional return to Britain