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U.N. envoy Abdelilah Al-Khatib, left, and Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, right, head of the opposition’s governing council, attend a press conference in Benghazi, Libya. Libya’s rebels will agree to a cease-fire if Moammar Gadhafi pulls his forces out of cities and allows peaceful protests, the rebel leader said. (Photo by Ben Curtis / AP)

Women on a binge

It was mainly frat boys who generated headlines for waking up hazed and dazed in the ER — if they woke up at all. However, some colleges have found a new cause for concern: women drinking dangerously.

TIME

Booze Britain: Now 5th of women are drinking too much

Daily Mail

CEO pay soars while workers’ pay stalls

The heads of the nation’s top companies got the biggest raises in recent memory last year after taking a hiatus during the recession. Median CEO pay jumped 27 percent in 2010.

USA TODAY

Mortgage finance giants and fat salaries

Reuters

US ending Libya air assault at crucial time

The Pentagon is about to pull its attack planes out of the international air campaign in Libya, hoping NATO partners can take up the slack.

CBS News

Libya air raid ‘killed civilians’

BBC

Blog:

Live from Libya

(Al Jazeera)

Live Blog

Gates denies troops will be deployed to Libya, but stays silent on CIA role

Guardian

Employment grew; jobless rate declined

The U.S. economy posted a second straight month of solid gains as the nation’s jobless rate fell to a two-year low of 8.8 percent, marking a decisive shift in the labor market.

MSNBC

Jobs report: Jobs gain, unemployment falls

CNNMoney

So much for privacy? New sites share every step you take online

Betting that the trend toward online exhibitionism isn’t letting up anytime soon, a few new startups let you publicize your browsing history, while giving you a peek at where your friends click online too.

ABC News

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Spring buds are seen on a tree near the New Jersey Statehouse in Trenton, N.J., during a light rain. (Photo by Mel Evans / AP)	French artists Martine Wehrel and Albert Avetissian’s artwork “The flight” is showing at the entrance of the ArtMonaco 2011 exhibition in Monaco. (Photo by Lionel Cironneau / AP)	A bee flies to a crocus flower on a warm, sunny early spring day in Warsaw, Poland. (Photo by Czarek Sokolowski / AP)

NATION

Last island prison in US closes

After 135 years, McNeil Island Corrections Center will be closed and the water off its shores will no longer be needed to deter escaping prisoners.

CNN

Wis. suspends enforcement of anti-union law

Wisconsin suspended enforcement of a new law reducing public sector union powers after a judge ruled it had not taken effect, while Ohio enacted a similar measure curbing collective bargaining.

Reuters

April Fools’ storm threatens ‘major travel disruption’ in the Northeast

A no-joke April Fools’ snowstorm swirled toward the Northeast, a cruel prank on a region that was finally seeing a reprieve from its long, white winter.

MSNBC

POLITICS

At-risk federal funds cover far more than the birth control pill

Lawmakers are arguing over budget line items and billions of dollars as they try to strike a deal to keep the government running for the rest of the fiscal year.

NPR

GOP senators all back Toomey balanced-budget bill

Republican Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania has emerged as the deficit hawk’s deficit hawk — and all 47 of his GOP colleagues joined him in sponsoring a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Tea party group: ‘Cut it or shut it’

A small but vocal group of tea party activists gathered outside the Capitol to urge House Republican leaders to hold the line and push for deeper spending cuts in the federal budget.

The Hill

Boehner: ‘There’s no agreement on numbers’

ABC News

CRISIS IN JAPAN

Workers at Japan’s nuke power plant expect to die

The workers at Japan’s stricken nuclear power plant — known as the Fukushima 50 — expect some of them will die within weeks or months, one worker’s mother has reportedly said.

MSNBC

Low levels of radiation recently found in West Coast milk samples

San Francisco Chronicle

Japan under pressure to widen nuclear evacuation zone

Pressure is mounting on Japan to expand the evacuation zone around the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, as the prime minister says he plans to review the country’s nuclear energy policy.

Guardian

Special section:

Japan’s nuclear concerns

CNN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Smart thermostats outwit users

Programmable thermostats, which now make up about half the U.S. sales of all thermostats, could be more trouble for some than they’re worth.

Scientific American

Vulnerable gorilla owes fate to climate change and humans

A now endangered group of gorillas split off into its own subspecies about 17,800 years ago, say researchers. The evolution of the Cross River gorilla was shaped by climate change and humans.

LiveScience

White dwarfs: fertile ground for other Earths

Planet hunters have found many planets outside the solar system, but it is unclear whether any of them might be habitable.

ScienceDaily

HEALTH

MSU researcher awarded $3.3M grant to help overweight, poor mothers

A Michigan State University researcher has been awarded a five-year, $3.3 million federal grant to help low-income mothers who are overweight or obese improve their health.

Detroit Free Press

Incidents of lung cancer, deaths down in women, report shows

Lung cancer mortality in women decreased for the first time in four decades, according to a report showing that overall rate of cancer mortality have declined since 2003.

MedPage Today

SPORTS

Do not discount ‘undercard’ teams Butler, VCU as legit title threats

Sometimes one national semifinal appears to showcase the two best remaining teams while the other seems to be a warm-up act between two schools just happy to be on such a grand stage.

Sports Illustrated

Ramon Hernandez‘s 3-run home run in 9th caps Reds’ rally

Ramon Hernandez hit a two-out, three-run homer in the bottom of the ninth inning rallying Cincinnati to a 7-6 victory over Milwaukee in an opening-day flashback to its championship season.

ESPN

Cool Stuff

The Daily Quote

“Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.”

Dag Hammarskjöld

Swedish diplomat

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Philadelphia Inquirer

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GOOD NEWS

Procrastination found to be an effective way to deal with stress

Avoidance techniques such as sleep, play and spending time with loved ones may be the ticket to less conflict while juggling the various demands of work, family and school, according to recent research.

AOL News

Compost company turns food waste into big profit

Mike Bacon has spent the past dozen years turning leaves, grass and horse manure into rich, crumbly compost. But in the past six months he has added a magic ingredient: food scraps.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Recent estimates show that highway deaths fall to lowest level since 1949

Highway deaths have plummeted to their lowest levels in more than 60 years, helped by more people wearing seat belts, better safety equipment in cars and efforts to curb drunken driving.

Las Vegas Review Journal

WORLD

Iran rejects Kuwait spy cell allegation