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Staff walk at the Indonesia Pavilion on the second day of the Shanghai World Expo in China. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko / AP)

Biggest World Expo in history opens

To celebrate its emergence as a global power, China is throwing a party — the largest-ever world expo, a six-month extravaganza that kicked off with hundreds of thousands visitors.

San Jose Mercury News

The 2010 Shanghai World Expo

Telegraph.co.uk

Job market's worse for boomers

For many baby boomers, the labor market remains tough. The unemployment rate for people 55 and older has hit the highest level ever recorded in the post-World War II era for workers in this age group.

NPR

Experts red-hot over green jobs

Boston Herald

Search is on for Times Square suspect

Federal authorities have joined the search for a suspect who planted a crude car bomb in a smoking Nissan Pathfinder in Times Square, prompting the evacuation of thousands on a warm and busy night.

New York Times

Blog:

Too early to call it a terror incident

CNN

Times Square bomb

BBC

Car causes security scare in Times Square

NECN

A ‘Russian roulette’ of risk results after data breaches

A list of database breaches compiled by the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse finds that the number of leaked records across the U.S. holding sensitive personal information tops 353 million.

Kansas City Star

Green exercise can boost mental health

Just five minutes a day of exercise in a park, working in a backyard garden, on a nature trail, or other green space can boost mood and self-esteem, according to a new study.

Times of India

The World in Photos .........................................................................
Some wet roses are seen in the infield before the 136th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. (Photo by David J. Phillip / AP)	Bhopal laughter club members participate in a rally marking the 'World Laughter Day', in Bhopal, India. (Photo by Anonymous / AP)	A man wears a traditional spring time mask during a local festival in a suburb near the Bulgarian capital Sofia. (Photo by Petar Petrov / AP)

NATION

Mich. grads say they'll take Obama message forward

President Obama challenged University of Michigan graduates to rise above the rancor that has infected politics, broaden their horizons, contribute to their country and help preserve American democracy.

Detroit Free Press

Tenn. flooding kills 5

Severe thunderstorms dropped 6 to 10 inches of rain on Middle Tennessee, causing at least five deaths, forcing emergency management officials to rescue people using swift-water boats.

The Tennessean

POLITICS

Marchers protest Ariz. law

More than 70 walks across the nation have turned out thousands of immigrant advocates who have been galvanized by Arizona's controversial law that makes it a state crime to be in the country illegally.

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Experts on economic toll of immigrants

San Diego Union-Tribune

Rallies against Ariz. law

CBS News

Financial overhaul likely to be major highlight in Dodd's political career

Scarcely four months after helping to shepherd the health care overhaul through the Senate, Christopher J. Dodd is once again at the center of the most urgent item on the president's agenda.

Hartford Courant

GULF COAST OIL SPILL

Oil spill may doom region's marshes

With oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico and officials giving no indication that the flow can be contained soon, towns along the Gulf Coast braced for what is understood to be an imminent environmental disaster.

Denver Post

Special section:

Rig blast aftermath

Associated Press

Obama to review control efforts as Gulf spill moves ashore

President Barack Obama will arrive on the Gulf Coast to review efforts to mitigate a potential environmental disaster in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida as an expanding oil spill moves onshore.

BusinessWeek

The oil spill spreads

NPR

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Armadillo undercuts Virgin in suborbital price war

Space Adventures has just signed an agreement with Armadillo Aerospace to send tourists into space for $102,000, which is providing spaceflights at much less of a price offered by Virgin Galactic.

iTWire

Apple vs. Adobe: Is Flash dying?

The stats seem to support Steve Jobs' contention that Adobe's video format is fading fast.

CNNMoney

ENVIRONMENT

Figures show scale of bee catastrophe

The world may be on the brink of biological disaster after news that a third of U.S. bee colonies did not survive the winter.

Guardian

Global glaciation snowballed into giant change in carbon cycle

For insight into what can happen when the Earth's carbon cycle is altered — a cause and consequence of climate change — scientists can look to an event that occurred some 720 million years ago.

ScienceDaily

EDUCATION

Success at charter schools is mixed

For all their support and cultural cachet, the majority of the 5,000 or so charter schools nationwide appear to be no better than local public schools when measured by achievement on standardized tests.

New York Times

Parents, students say Hartford school spirals out of control

Parents and teachers say student behavior at Rawson, a pre-kindergarten through Grade eight school in Hartford, Conn., has spiraled out of control.

Hartford Courant

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

US dollars fueling church campaign

An American-based group opposed to abortion has said it is donating “tens of thousands of dollars” to help defeat Kenya’s proposed constitution.

The Daily Nation

Catholic order to be overhauled after founder's abuse

Pope Benedict XVI is to appoint an envoy to overhaul a conservative Roman Catholic order whose Mexican founder abused young children over many years.

BBC

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J.K. Rowling

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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

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GOOD NEWS

Act of kindness in kids' Springfield, Mo., garden lifts young volunteers' spirits

The Daisy Scout Troop populated the flower bed near the school entrance with 100 tulip, daffodil and hyacinth bulbs, plus pansies, ferns and a flowering dogwood.

STLtoday.com

Harley workers garden, help the hungry

Because of T.J. Dixon's February labors, hundreds of hungry people in Kansas City will benefit this summer — one of the toughest seasons for food donations.

Kansas City Star

WORLD

Some profit from wives despite French polygamy ban

The burqa, or face-covering veil, is getting all the attention in the debate over Muslim immigrants in France. But another tradition among some immigrants is less noticed and far more widespread: polygamy.

MSNBC

Ahmadinejad blasts US before visit