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The space shuttle Atlantis is towed toward the orbiter processing facility at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. NASA plans to announce retirement homes for its three orbiters — Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour — on the 30th anniversary of the shuttle program’s first launch. (Photo by Chris O’Meara / AP)

Houston, ‘Space City,’ fears snub on latest space shuttle

Houston may be the home of astronauts, mission control and the space shuttle program itself, but the city likely faces an increasingly uphill battle to obtain an orbiter for public display.

Houston Chronicle

NASA through the years

Detroit Free Press

US cost of living hits record

One would think that after the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, Americans could catch a break for a while with deflationary forces keeping the cost of living low. That’s not the case.

USA TODAY

20 cities you don’t want to live in — yet

CNBC

Gadhafi defiant after coalition missile

French fighter jets soared over Libya to counter Moammar Gadhafi’s military forces who were intent on destroying the opposition as they pushed into the rebel stronghold of Benghazi.

CNN

Behind Barack Obama’s turnaround on intervention in Libya

Politico

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Libya — latest developments on no-fly zone, cease-fire and Benghazi

(Guardian)

News Blog

Fighter jet ‘shot down’ over Benghazi

BBC

Brazilians welcome Obama as their own

As President Barack Obama arrives in Brazil, there’ll be talk of trade and geopolitics. There will also be plenty of excitement about the arrival of the black man who became U.S. president.

NPR

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Obama touts Latin America trip as jobs producer for US

(USA TODAY)

The Oval

App gives fans direct line to concessions

Any sports fan who has ever missed a big play will appreciate the Yorder application. Co-founder Kenji Kato believes the app could revolutionize food concessions at sporting events and concerts.

San Francisco Chronicle

The World in Photos .........................................................................
Arizona forward Solomon Hill and Memphis forward Will Coleman rebound in a second-round NCAA tournament game in Tulsa, Okla. (Photo by Anonymous / AP)	A girl’s face was smeared with colored powder to celebrate the Holi festival in Calcutta, India. (Photo by Bikas Das / AP)	A lone bison roams outside the entrance gate to Yellowstone National Park in Gardiner, Mont. (Photo by Janie Osborne / AP)

NATION

Labor in full roar again but not the same

In the bitter aftermath of a showdown with Wisconsin’s governor, and as other states move to weaken public employee bargaining rights, unions and their allies hope they can turn rage into revival.

Star Tribune

Immigration reform: glimpse of the future in Ariz. and Utah?

The business community was instrumental in defeating an Arizona birthright-citizenship bill and passing a Utah guest-worker program, suggesting it could be a key force on immigration reform.

Christian Science Monitor

In Iowa, growing number of Latino workers report they aren’t paid wages

Des Moines Register

POLITICS

Former Secretary of State Warren Christopher passes at 85

The 85-year-old statesman died at his home in Los Angeles of complications from bladder and kidney cancer, said Sonja Steptoe of the law firm O’Melveny & Myers, where Christopher was a senior partner.

Christian Science Monitor

In NH return, Rudy Giuliani comes out swinging at opponents

Rudy Giuliani returned to the Granite State giving a speech that lambasted President Barack Obama, jabbed Mitt Romney’s health plan and praised the tea party.

Politico

CRISIS IN JAPAN

Radiation found in food as workers scramble to curb nuclear crisis

The Japanese government said that abnormally high levels of radiation were detected in spinach and milk that came from farms near a tsunami-affected nuclear plant.

CNN

Japan still ‘racing against the clock’ to prevent meltdown at Fukushima

Telegraph.co.uk

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Disaster in Japan

(NPR)

The Two-Way

Americans less generous in Japan disaster relief efforts?

A week after Japan was crippled by an earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis, there’s no telethon on the horizon, and little sign Americans are giving as feverishly as they have before.

ABC News

Building a tsunami bunker

MSNBC

EDUCATION

Pressure mounts for the Texas Board of Education to redo curriculum

Pressure on the State Board of Education to reopen controversial social studies curriculum standards increased when three House Republican leaders expressed discomfort with the new standards.

Houston Chronicle

District-scholar partnerships yield new insights for cooperation

A set of in-depth partnerships between researchers and the nation’s largest school systems is bearing fruit, both in new studies and greater insights into how districts and researchers can work together.

Education Week

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Chick-fil-A executive touts Bible as chain’s blueprint

Dan Cathy doesn’t just want to feed you chicken, he also wants to feed your soul. He doesn’t give the typical sort of corporate-speak you would expect to hear from the leader of a major fast-food chain.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Dalai Lama’s resignation rejected

After holding deliberations for four days, the Tibetan parliament has concluded that the relationship between the Dalai Lama, the 14th reincarnation of the Tenzing Gyatso and the Tibetan people is “immortal.”

Hindustan Times

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Domain geared for adult entertainment approved for Internet

There’s a new red light district being created — just for the Web. A nonprofit group in charge of Internet addresses approved a movement to add the internet domain “.xxx” for pornographic websites.

NY Daily News

Facebook fibs can cause real angst for teenage girls, Scout study finds

Surveying 1,000 teen girls who use social media, the Girl Scouts found those with low self-esteem were more likely to project themselves through social media in ways that didn’t match their personalities.

Star Tribune

SPORTS

Balanced scoring, tough defense carry Marquette past Xavier

The 31 percent that Xavier, regionally seeded sixth, shot in the first half is the statistic that speaks the truth about the devastation visited upon the team by Marquette’s defense.

Sporting News

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NCAA Tournament schedules

CBSSports

Roger Goodell sends letter to players

Commissioner Roger Goodell wrote to NFL players outlining the league’s last proposal to the union and cautioning that “each passing day puts our game and our shared economics further at risk.”

ESPN

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Oscar Wilde

Irish writer and poet

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Washington Post

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GOOD NEWS

Divorce-cations? Split couples travel together for the kids

Actor Bruce Willis has done it. So has Britain’s Prince Andrew and media mogul Arianna Huffington. They’ve all vacationed with their ex-spouses and kids.

USA TODAY

With the 1st hint of spring comes the draw of water ice

On the block, a young couple sat nestled on front steps, and the line outside of Morrone’s Water Ice grew and grew. Morrone’s secret? Texture.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Equine ‘retirees’ find new life in Ill.

As the racetrack opens for another season, elite equine alumni are spending their days in leisure at a ranch in Farmington, Ill.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

WORLD

US condemns arrest of opposition figures in Bahrain